Beautiful Music for Ugly Children
Beautiful Music for Ugly Children is a young adult novel by Kirstin Cronn-Mills, published October 8, 2012, by North Star Editions. The book tells the story of Gabe, a transgender youth. It received various awards and was a finalist for the Lambda Literary Award for Children's and Young Adult Literature. When Cronn-Mills was writing the book, she frequently visited RECLAIM, "a Twin Cities-based organization that offers counseling and other services to transsexual [sic] and LGBT youth." Anyone who donated at least ten dollars to the organization received a copy of Beautiful Music for Ugly Children. Reception Beautiful Music for Ugly Children received positive reviews from Booklist, Kirkus Reviews, Publishers Weekly, and School Library Journal. References LGBT young adult literature Novels with transgender themes Stonewall Book Award-winning works 2010s LGBT novels 2012 LGBT-related literary works 2012 children's books