How Beautiful the Ordinary: Twelve Stories of Identity by Ariel Schrag, Margo Lanagan, Jennifer Finney Boylan, David Levithan, Michael Cart, Gregory Maguire, Eric Shanower, Francesca Lia Block, William Sleater, Ron Koertge, Emma Donoghue, Julie Anne Peters, Jacqueline Woodson

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How Beautiful the Ordinary: Twelve Stories of Identity

Ariel Schrag, Margo Lanagan, Jennifer Finney Boylan, David Levithan, Michael Cart, Gregory Maguire, Eric Shanower, Francesca Lia Block, William Sleater, Ron Koertge, Emma Donoghue, Julie Anne Peters, Jacqueline Woodson

368 pages • digital • first pub 2008 • 3 editions

fiction lgbtqia+ short stories young adult challenging emotional reflective slow-paced

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A girl thought to be a boy steals her sister's skirt, while a boy thought to be a girl refuses to wear a cornflower blue dress. One boy's love of a soldier leads to the death of a stranger. The present takes a bittersweet journey into the past whe...