A Boy Like Me
Publisher
215 Ink
Publication Year
2015
ISBN
9780692238066
Pages
269 pages
Genre
realism
Format
novel
Item Type
Fiction
Annotation
Born a girl, Peyton Honeycutt meets Tara Parks in the eighth grade bathroom shortly after he gets his first period. It is the best and worst day of his life. Determined to impress Tara, Peyton sets out to win her love by mastering the drums and basketball. He takes on Tara's small-minded mother, the bully at school, and the prejudices within his conservative hometown. In the end, Peyton must accept and stand up for who he is or lose the woman he loves.
Grade Level
6-8; 9-12
Diversity Topics
LGBTQ (Gender and Sexuality); Transgender; transgender teenager; girl to boy
Main Character
boy
Race/Ethnicities
White
Family Formation
mother and father
LGBTQ+
girl to boy transgender
Keywords
sexual orientation; high school; bullies; love; friends; period; menstruation; music; drums; basketball
Diversity Impact
direct
STARS Citation
Wood, Jennie, "A Boy Like Me" (2015). Diverse Families. 823.
https://stars.library.ucf.edu/diversefamilies/823