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I am J

J, who feels like a boy mistakenly born as a girl, runs away from his best friend who has rejected him and the parents he thinks do not understand him when he finally decides that it is time to be who he really is.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Beam, Cris
Format:	Books Print Book
Language:	English
Published:	New York : Little, Brown, 2011.
Edition:	1st ed.
Subjects:	Trans people > Young adult fiction. Identity (Psychology) > Young adult fiction. Emotional problems of teenagers > Young adult fiction. Friendship > Young adult fiction.
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Summary:	J, who feels like a boy mistakenly born as a girl, runs away from his best friend who has rejected him and the parents he thinks do not understand him when he finally decides that it is time to be who he really is.
Item Description:	Additional material following the text includes an author's note, and resources for further information.
Physical Description:	326, [13] p. ; 22 cm.
Audience:	014-017.
Bibliography:	Includes bibliographical references.
ISBN:	9780316053617 (hbk.) 0316053619 (hbk.)
Author Notes:	Cris Beam is the author of Transparent , a Stonewall Honor Book and Lambda Literary Award winner.She has an MFA in writing from Columbia University and teaches creative writing at Columbia, New York University, and The New School. I Am J is her debut novel. While living in LA, Cris volunteered at Eagles, a high school for gay and transgender kids. During the 2.5 years Cris taught there, she became deeply involved with a complex but marginalized tribe of transgender teens who had nowhere to go but the streets, one of whom became her foster daughter.