Winner of the ALA Stonewall Book Award (Young Adult, 2014) A 2014 YALSA Top Ten Popular Paperback A 2013 ALA Rainbow List Top Ten Title Lambda Literary Award finalist for LGBT Children’s/Young Adult


10th Anniversary Edition, featuring a new author's note</B>

"This is Beautiful Music for Ugly Children, on community radio 90.3, KZUK. I’m Gabe. Welcome to my show."

High school senior Gabe is a music geek who dreams of being a DJ. He's also a trans guy. His parents think he's gone crazy, and the rest of the world seems happy to agree with them, but Gabe knows the truth: he's been a boy his whole life.

As his new public access radio show gains popularity, Gabe faces the challenges of having his true self be visible to his peers as a radio personality but not in everyday life. He juggles high school romance, complicated friendships, and his parents, all while wondering what might happen if his peers find out that Gabe the DJ is also the “girl” from school.