Beyond Magenta: Transgender Teens Speak Out

Reviewed by: Jill O'Connor - North Yarmouth Academy Library, Yarmouth, Southern Maine Library District

Review Date: August 11, 2015

Review

This book has received much critical success and is a Stonewall Honor Book from the American Library Association. The praise is well-deserved as the book captures many real-life stories from transgender teens who are just trying to find their place in the world. Each story stands alone, so readers can read the entire book or pick and choose a story. For those who agreed, there are photographs, often of the teens from their childhoods and as older teens after they determined with which gender they identify more closely. This is an engaging and honest book and should be in every library so that teens who are questioning and feeling that they don't have a story out there can find it and know that they are NOT alone.

Overall Book Score: excellent