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Beyond Magenta: Transgender Teens Speak Out
Beyond Magenta: Transgender Teens Speak Out
Reviewed by: Jill O'Connor - North Yarmouth Academy Library, Yarmouth, Southern Maine Library District
Review Date: August 11, 2015
Review
This book has received much critical success and is a Stonewall Honor Book from the American Library Association. The praise is well-deserved as the book captures many real-life stories from transgender teens who are just trying to find their place in the world. Each story stands alone, so readers can read the entire book or pick and choose a story. For those who agreed, there are photographs, often of the teens from their childhoods and as older teens after they determined with which gender they identify more closely. This is an engaging and honest book and should be in every library so that teens who are questioning and feeling that they don't have a story out there can find it and know that they are NOT alone.
Overall Book Score: excellent
About the Book
Author:
Kuklin, Susan
Illustrator: ,
Illustration Quality: excellent
Publisher: Candlewick Press
Book Type: chapter book nonfiction
Genre:
Audience: grades 7-9,grades 10-12
Binding Type: paperback
Binding Quality: fair
ISBN: 9780763673680
Price: 12.99