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Prize-winning novel ‘Almost Perfect' puts you inside the life of a transgendered

Started by Shana A, February 12, 2011, 08:57:09 AM

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February 12, 2011, 08:57:09 AM
Prize-winning novel 'Almost Perfect' puts you inside the life of a transgendered teen
Friday, 11 February 2011 07:10
BY SUSIE WILSON
NEWJERSEYNEWSROOM.COM

http://www.newjerseynewsroom.com/style/prize-winning-novel-almost-perfect-puts-you-inside-the-life-of-a-transgendered-teen

The American Library Association's John Newbery Medal is to young adult fiction what the Oscar is to the motion picture industry: the highest award the industry can bestow.

Clare Vanderpool's Moon Over Manifest won this year's Newbery award, and while reading about it, I found another prize-winning book for teens: Almost Perfect, by Brian Katcher. The book received the ALA's 2011 Stonewall Children's and Young Adult Literature Award, given to "English language books of exceptional merit relating to the gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender experience."

Since I'd never read a book about a transgendered teen, I decided to take the plunge.
"Be yourself; everyone else is already taken." Oscar Wilde
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