"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...

 

This book is the winner of numerous awards. It was recognised in the Lgbt - YA category by the Lambda Literary Award. It was recognised in the Top Ten Popular Paperback category by the Young Adult Library Services Association Awards. It also was recognised in the Lgbt Fiction category by the Ippy Award. It was recognised in the Rainbow List Top Ten category by the American Library Association Awards. Also it was recognised in the Fiction - YA category by the Foreword Indies Book of the Year Award. It was recognised in the YA category by the Stonewall Book Award.

There are 288 pages in this book. This book was published 2012 by North Star Editions .

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.