Between Perfect and Real Illustrated by Kaylani Juanita

Between Perfect and Real Illustrated by Kaylani JuanitaRay Stoeves Between Perfect and Real is a moving YA debut about a trans boy finding his voiceand himself. A Junior Library Guild Gold Standard Selection Dean Foster knows hes a trans guy. Hes watched enough YouTube videos and done enough questioning to be sure. But everyone at his high school thinks hes a lesbianincluding his girlfriend, Zoe, and his theater director, who just cast him as a nontraditional Romeo. He wonders if maybe it would be easier

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playing instruments in a band

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Shira Gordon is painfully shy

In the Magical Land of Birthdays

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have wrestling in their blood: Their mom was a pro whose dreams of stardom were dashed by a devious opponent

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A princess must win back her kingdom

On this first adventure

taking little more than the metal war fans and headdress her parents left behind

and Shira’s crush joins the cast