The MoonStone Girls

von Brooke Skipstone

338 Seiten, Taschenbuch, ab 15 bis 18 Jahre

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KIRKUS STARRED REVIEW: "A moving and romantic coming-out story and a triumphant celebration of lesbian liberation."GOLD MEDAL IPPY Award-Young Adult FictionWINNER in the 2022 Foreword INDIES Book of the Year AwardGOLD MEDAL READERS FAVORITE Award-Young Adult Coming of AgeTracy should have been a boy. Even her older brother Spencer says so, though he wouldn't finish the thought with, "And I should have been a girl."Though both feel awkward in their own skin, they have to face who they are-queers in the late 60s.When both are caught with gay partners, their lives and futures are endangered by their homophobic father as their mother struggles to defend them.While the Vietnam War threatens to take Spencer away, Tracy and her father wage a war of their own, each trying to save the sweet, talented pianist.At seventeen, Tracy dresses as a boy and leaves her parents in turmoil, with only the slimmest hope of finding peace within herself. She journeys to a girl with a guitar, calling to her from a photo, "Come to Alaska. We'd be great friends."Maybe even The MoonStone Girls.

• ISBN: 9781737006442
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 10.02.2022
• Größe: 229 x 152 mm
• Verlag: Skipstone Learning
• Empf. Lesealter: ab 15 bis 18 Jahre