Missouri Author Wins Award For Transgender Teen Fiction
by Melissa Meinzer

http://blogs.riverfronttimes.com/dailyrft/2011/01/missouri_author_wins_award_for.php

​Brian Katcher's 2009 novel, Almost Perfect, has been grabbing attention and awards -- it just snagged the 2011 Stonewall Children's and Young Adult Literature Award, for which he'll be recognized at June's American Library Association Annual Conference. The book, Katcher's second novel, delves into the experience of Sage, a closeted transgender girl in high school; and the emotional roller-coaster she goes through with Logan, her new friend in school, after the pair kiss and Sage reveals she was born male.

I'm so happy about this news! Almost Perfect was one of those books I forced all of my friends to read. It's one of my favorites, and not just because of the trans issues.

I hope I can get hold of an second hand/paper back edition here.... the hardcover cost 18.95US$ (INR 856)  .. seems like a very good book to read...

Missouri dad's story of transgender love wins award

By Jane Henderson • Post-Dispatch Book Editor
Posted: Sunday, January 16, 2011 12:00 am

http://www.stltoday.com/entertainment/books-and-literature/article_b36b7677-ceed-5d82-8b3c-d1fe69e84d85.html

A small-town Missouri dad wins the second Stonewall children's book award with an edgy tale of transgender love, and what's the reaction? Cheerful "attaboys."

Where's the anger, the cries to ban "Almost Perfect"?

Brian Katcher, 35, a Fort Zumwalt South alum and a librarian in Moberly, jokes that a little national controversy — like last year's uproar in southern Missouri over several titles for teens — wouldn't hurt his reputation: "What's a guy got to do to get his book burned in this town?"