Beautiful Music for Ugly Children
by Kirstin Cronn-Mills
When you think about it, I’m like a record. Elizabeth is my A side, the song everybody knows, and Gabe is my B side—not heard as often, but just as good.
It’s time to let my B side play.
“Every so often a book comes along that is so sharp, so moving, so real, and so good, you want to press it into everyone’s hands and say, Read this! READ THIS!”
—Courtney Summers, author of Some Girls Are
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- the Weetzie Bat series, by Francesca Lia Block
- Beauty Queens, by Libba Bray
- London Reign, by A.C. Britt
- Alex as Well, by Alyssa Brugman
- The Vast Fields of Ordinary, by Nick Burd
- The Perks of Being a Wallflower, by Stephen Chbosky
- Freakboy, by Kristin Elizabeth Clark
- The Miseducation of Cameron Post, by Emily M. Danforth
- I'll Get There, It Better Be Worth the Trip, by John Donovan
- Moon at Nine, by Deborah Ellis
- Middlesex, by Jeffrey Eugenides
- With or Without You, by Brian Farrey
- If You Could Be Mine and Tell Me Again How a Crush Should Feel, both by Sara Farizan
- For Today I Am a Boy, by Kim Fu
- Annie on My Mind, by Nancy Garden
- Will Grayson, Will Grayson, by John Green & David Levithan
- None of the Above, by I.W. Gregorio
- Being Emily, by Rachel Gold
- Sister Mischief, by Laura Goode
- Geography Club, by Brent Hartinger
- The Five Stages of Andrew Brawley, by Shaun David Hutchinson
- In One Person, by John Irving
- Almost Perfect, by Brian Katcher
- Ask the Passengers, by A.S. King
- Talk, by Kathe Koja
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- Boy Meets Boy, Every Day, Two Boys Kissing, and Hold Me Closer: The Tiny Cooper Story, all by David Levithan
- Gravity, by Leanne Lieberman
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- When We Were Good, by Suzanne Sutherland
- Lies We Tell Ourselves and What We Left Behind, both by Robin Talley
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- Fan Art, by Sarah Tregay
- The Summer I Wasn't Me, by Jessica Verdi
- Crossing Lines, by Paul Volponi
- Bleeding Earth, by Kaitlin Ward
- Beauty of the Broken, by Tawni Waters
- Parrotfish, by Ellen Wittlinger
- Putting Makeup on the Fat Boy, by Bil Wright
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