Girls Like Me by Nina Packebush

Great, 5 stars

'Sixteen-year-old queer-identified Banjo Logan wakes up groggy in a juvenile mental ward. She realizes that the clueless therapist and shiny psychiatrist can't help her come to terms with her genderqueer boy/girlfriend's suicide, much less help her decide what to do with the fetus that's growing inside her or answers the question of why she cuts. She's befriended by two fellow patients--a strange and slightly manic queer girl and a shy, gay boy disowned by his born-again Christian parents. Girls Like Me is the a powerful coming of age story of a pregnant gay teenager who realizes that friends may make the best medicine.'--Back cover.

Details

ISBN9781945805356
Copyright Date2017
Publication DateNovember 1, 2017
PublisherBedazzled Ink Publishing
No. of Pages204
LanguageEnglish
NotesLambda Literary Award Nominee for LGBTQ Children’s/Young Adult (2018), Washington State Book Award Nominee for Young Adult (2018), Golden Crown Literary Award for Young Adult (2018)
RatingGreat
GenreYA Fiction (Young Adult)