Age: High School
Award: Stonewall 2011

First off, the reader needs to understand the purpose of this book. It is from the perspective of Logan, a small-town teen that falls head-over-heals for the new girl at his school. Sage is quirky, unique, and beautiful. Logan soon finds out that Sage is a transsexual, transitioning from boy to girl. While his feelings of disgust (towards himself and Sage), anger, and cowardliness are hard to accept, they may very well be a genuine response and allow the reader to see a transsexual scenario from another valuable perspective.

I appreciated the psychological consideration for Logan, from his past that influences his present (dad leaves home because he's a coward, Logan doesn't want to be a coward by running away from Sage), to the culture he's living in (small town USA). I also enjoyed the very funny one-liners thrown throughout the book.