Jennie Wood’s Donating Profits to Unite Against Book Bans!
10 years ago, Jennie Wood released “A Boy Like Me” – a tender, compelling, trans coming-of-age YA novel. It was a Next Generation Indie Book awards finalist, an INDIEFAB Book of the Year finalist, and one of Foreword Reviews’ 10 Best Indie YA novels for 2014. In the decade since its release, so much has changed in the world – and not all for the better. For this 10th Anniversary edition, Jennie has put together a new forward addressing the progress and pitfalls the community has dealt with since the original release. We believe the only way to combat hate is to expose more people to trans stories through art.
“A classic love story! Wood gets all the details of a trans individual coming-of-age into this novel. From the feelings about clothes, to the relationships with parents to the negotiations of life at school, this story rings true. Wood takes care with her setting and makes life, as painful and joyful as it can be, realistic. This novel is a great examination of what it means to come to terms with who you are and what it means to be true to yourself.” – Alex Myers, author of Revolutionary
| Graciously, Jennie has offered to donate 100% of their profits from this new edition to Unite Against Book Bans. We’re in a difficult time, and the 2023-2024 school year recorded the highest instances of book bans and highest number of unique titles banned – over 4,000 unique titles were removed in over 10,000 instances of book bans. |
If you’d like to be notified the moment the campaign launches in January, sign up here at the Zoop campaign. And if you’d like to help us raise money for UABB, or help expose more people to trans stories, please spread the word! The more help we get, the more good we can do!
THE STORY:
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.
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Founder and Editor-in-Chief of AmberUnmasked.com and Vodka O'Clock Podcast. Author of The Farrah Wethers Mysteries, comic book short stories, prose, and non-fiction. Cosplayer and figure model.