Beautiful Music for Ugly Children
The lives and loves of a teenage transboy? music geek? Gabe has always identified as a boy, but he? was born with a girl's body. With his new? public access radio show gaining in popularity,? Gabe struggles with romance, friendships,? and parents-all while trying to come? out as transgendered. An...
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The lives and loves of a teenage transboy? music geek? Gabe has always identified as a boy, but he? was born with a girl's body. With his new? public access radio show gaining in popularity,? Gabe struggles with romance, friendships,? and parents-all while trying to come? out as transgendered. An audition for a station? in Minneapolis looks like his ticket to a? better life in the big city. But his entire future? is threatened when several violent guys find? out Gabe the popular DJ is also Elizabeth? from school.?
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Format: ebook
ISBN:
9780738732657 (0738732656)
Publish date: October 1st 2012
Publisher: Flux
Pages no: 288
Edition language: English
Probably my most favorite genre to read are YA contemporary novels that have a grittier, more realistic, story to tell. I like books with a powerful voice. I’ve read some really amazing authors that left an indelible impression on me. It is for that reason, the marks they leave, that I am constantly...
Beautiful Music for Ugly Children Kristin Cronn-Mills, 2012 Gabe Williams just got his dream job – a radio DJ gig. Sure, it’s Friday nights at midnight and it’s on a local community radio station, so probably no one will listen, but it’s a start. What Gabe really wants is to move to the Cities ...
“It’s 90.3, KZUK, Beautiful Music for Ugly Children, you’re listening to Gabe at this late hour right here on community radio and I’m here for my listeners. So turn it up and sit back and listen to some Def Leppard, those boys of the 70’s.” It’s Gabe turn to show his style, at least behind the mike ...
The Plot: Gabe's having a hard time - he's ignored at school, he might be in love with his best friend Paige, and his family doesn't know how to talk to him anymore. You know, ever since he came out to them as Gabe, a boy, when they've spent the last 18 years of his life thinking he's Liz, a girl. Y...
Plot Summary: Gabe Williams is an eighteen year old who's in the process of transitioning from Liz Williams. At the beginning of the story, the only people who know that that Liz wants to be known as Gabe from now on are his parents, brother, and best friend, Paige. Gabe's super nervous about peo...