Gracefully Grayson

I enjoyed this story, and I'm glad there's a MG fiction with a transgender protagonist.

Howeverrrr it did feel a bit simplistic to me? And also, I know it's a MG novel and maybe the author didn't want to be too much of an “issue” novel, but I'm a little surprised the word “transgender” is never used in this? Like Grayson starts to accept her feelings that she's a girl, not a boy, and starts wearing feminine clothes to school. But it seems like it wouldn't be that much of a stretch for the Understanding Drama Director to say, “Hey, BTW, have you ever heard the word ‘transgender,' because maybe that label would be useful to you?” All we get is dancing around it like “always been like this.” Like it could almost easily be a story about an effeminate boy coming to terms with getting bullied for liking “girly” stuff?

Still! Like I said, I enjoyed reading it. Certainly a good contribution to the MG LGBTQ canon.