Beautiful Music for Ugly Children

"This is Beautiful Music for Ugly Children, on community radio 90.3, KZUK. I'm Gabe. Welcome to my show." My birth name is Elizabeth, but I'm a guy. Gabe. My parents think I've gone crazy and the rest of the world is happy to agree with them, but I know I'm right. I've been a boy my whole life. 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. .

Publisher: Flux
Published: 10/08/2012
Pages: 288
Weight: 0.55lbs
Size: 7.90h x 5.10w x 0.70d
ISBN: 9780738732510
Age: Young Adult

Accelerated Reader:
Reading Level: 3.9
Point Value: 8
Interest Level: Upper Grade
Quiz #/Name: 156907 / Beautiful Music for Ugly Children


Award: Lambda Literary Awards - Finalist
Award: IndieFab awards - Silver Medal Winner
Award: Stonewall Book Award - Winner
Award: Independent Publisher Book Awards - Silver Medal Winner
Award: Eliot Rosewater Indiana High School Book Award - Nominee
Award: Green Mountain Book Award - Nominee
Award: South Carolina Childrens, Junior and Young Adult Book Award - Nominee


Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 09/24/2012
Kirkus Reviews 09/15/2012
Voice of Youth Advocates 10/01/2012 - Recommended - Better Than Most
Booklist 11/15/2012 pg. 50
Bulletin of Ctr for Child Bks 01/01/2013 pg. 239
School Library Journal 01/01/2013 pg. 104

About the Author

Kirstin Cronn-Mills is the author of Minnesota Book Award finalist The Sky Always Hears Me And the Hills Don't Mind and Beautiful Music for Ugly Children. Cronn-Mills received her doctorate degree from Iowa State University and currently teaches in North Mankato, Minnesota, where she lives with her husband and son.