Act cool

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Label

Act cool

Statement of responsibility

Tobly McSmith

Creator

• trueMcSmith, Tobly

Author

• trueMcSmith, Tobly

Subject

• Acting -- Juvenile fiction
• trueAunts
• Aunts -- Juvenile fiction
• trueChristian conservatives
• trueComing out (Sexual or gender identity)
• trueFamilies
• Families -- Juvenile fiction
• Fiction
• trueGender dysphoria
• trueGender identity
• trueIdentity (Psychology)
• Identity (Psychology) -- Juvenile fiction
• trueLesbians
• trueMusicals
• New York (N.Y.) -- Juvenile fiction
• trueNew York City
• Performing arts high schools -- New York (State) | New York -- Juvenile fiction
• trueActing
• Transgender fiction
• Transgender people -- Juvenile fiction
• trueTransgender teenage boys
• trueTransgender teenagers
• Transgender youth -- Family relationships -- Juvenile fiction
• trueTransitioning (Gender identity)
• trueYoung adult fiction
• truePerforming arts schools
• Psychological fiction
• trueSexual reorientation programs
• Sexual reorientation programs -- Juvenile fiction
• trueSuicidal behavior
• trueTeenage actors and actresses

Genre

• Transgender fiction
• Psychological fiction
• Juvenile fiction

Language

eng

Summary

Transgender teen and aspiring actor August lands a spot at a prestigious performing arts high school in New York City, but he struggles to move past the life he left behind, with conservative parents who wanted to send him to conversion therapy

Storyline

• trueOwn voices

Character

• trueLGBTQIA diverse

Award

Rainbow List, 2022

Dewey number

813.6

Index

no index present

Literary form

fiction

http://library.link/vocab/ext/novelist/minGradeLevel

• 9
• 12

Nature of contents

bibliography

Target audience

adolescent