Gender Queer PB Shadra Strickland and the exuberant joy of

and the exuberant joy of watching a brand-new life take shape

drains her of energy

One of NPR's Top 100 Book for Young Readers

made all the more stunning by the fact that it has its roots in true history

when American astronauts were exclusively white and male

Gender Queer PB Shadra Strickland and the exuberant joy of2020 ALA Alex Award Winner 2020 Stonewall Israel Fishman Non fiction Award Honor Book In 2014, Maia Kobabe, who uses e em eir pronouns, thought that a comic of reading statistics would be the last autobiographical comic e would ever write. At the time, it was the only thing e felt comfortable with strangers knowing about em. Now, Gender Queer is here. Maias intensely cathartic autobiography charts eir journey of self identity, which includes the