Jan 2011 26
Angela Dallara, GLAAD's National News/Transgender Advocacy Fellow
Touching Teen Novel About Transgender Girl Wins 2011 ALA Stonewall Award
http://glaadblog.org/2011/01/26/touching-teen-novel-about-transgender-girl-wins-2011-ala-stonewall-award/Brian Katcher is garnering a lot of attention with his second novel Almost Perfect, which recently won the American Library Association's 2011 Stonewall Award for children's and young adult literature.The story follows the relationship between a teenage transgender girl named Sage and a straight boy named Logan who learns to be a more understanding and supportive friend to her.
After going through a difficult breakup, Logan is intrigued when Sage moves to his small hometown in Missouri and joins his biology class. Sage is cute, confident and quirky. As Logan gets to know her better, he becomes one of the few friends Sage has ever had, and she reveals to him that she is transgender. Logan's initial reaction as well as his later attempts to understand are infiltrated with his own misconceptions and a fear of what other people would say if they found out. He is often selfish and ignorant, but learns a lot about himself as he watches Sage encounter obstacles in virtually every aspect of her life throughout the book.
