Beautiful Music for Ugly Children

Kirstin Cronn-Mills First published 2012

About this book

"This is Beautiful Music for Ugly Children, on community radio 90.3, KZUK. I’m Gabe. Welcome to my show."

My birth name is Elizabeth, but I’m a guy. Gabe. My parents think I’ve gone crazy and the rest of the world is happy to agree with them, but I know I’m right. I’ve been a boy my whole life. When you think about it, I’m like a record. Elizabeth is my A side, the song everybody knows, and Gabe is my B side―not heard as often, but just as good. It’s time to let my B side play.

Winner of the 2014 Stonewall Book Award for Children's and Young Adult Literature.

Subjects

  • boys, fiction
  • children's fiction
  • collection:mike_morgan_larry_romans_childrens_young_adult_literature_award=winner
  • disc jockeys
  • fiction
  • high schools
  • juvenile fiction
  • lgbtq gender identity
  • lgbtq young adult
  • minnesota, fiction
  • popularity, fiction
  • reading level-grade 10
  • reading level-grade 11
  • reading level-grade 12
  • reading level-grade 7
  • reading level-grade 8
  • reading level-grade 9
  • schools
  • schools, fiction
  • school stories
  • stonewall book awards
  • transgender people
  • transsexuals