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Jul 11, 2022DeeHC rated this title 3.5 out of 5 stars
This YA novel was shortlisted for Canada Reads in 2015 and won a Governor General's Award in 2014. Jude is obsessed with the movies and being a star, but first he has to escape his small town and get to Hollywood. Really, this is just…
leemclean
Jan 19, 2016
Yikes! The book overview calls it "teen glamour, dark mischief" - this description understates the drug and alcohol abuse & promiscuous sex that is written as the norm in this book. While I'm certain this book depicts realism in a segment…
Jun 04, 2015
I understand why so many people loved this book. I understand why so many people hated this book. The writing is pretty solid. At first I thought the gratuitous edginess would ruin it for me, but as I got closer to Jude as a…
Apr 27, 2015dnl84 rated this title 4 out of 5 stars
I work with LGBTQ2I youth and found this difficult to read because I could see some of these tough situations easily happening to "my" kids. Gender variant people face a lot of violence. This is real. These kinds of things happen to…
AALuckett
Apr 21, 2015
I cannot believe this book won the Governor General's Award for Children's Literature. It ought to be severely downgraded as it adds nothing but negativity to young adolescence. It is unbalanced in its extremities of emotion…
Mar 10, 2015
So everything those rave reviews say about this book being "Brave" and "Unflinching" and whatnot is true. It's a brutal picture of teens (children, really) who have fallen through the cracks, and what they have to do to survive. I love…
Mar 03, 2015booktigger rated this title 4.5 out of 5 stars
Hate it or love it - this book screams for a strong reaction ; be it positive or negative. It is definitely a worthy pick for this year's Canada Reads, 'one book to break barriers'. Heartbreaking, funny and brutally told, this book…
Feb 13, 2015BraveNOTPerfect rated this title 2 out of 5 stars
it is not your every day read....very blunt.....
Jan 26, 2015nidofito rated this title 4 out of 5 stars
The book depicts a pretty harsh look at the treatment of gay kids, especially in small town schools due to lack of education and exposure. It also points to a lack of support system for the bullied and a lack of action taken against the…
Jan 13, 2015
Not for the faint of heart or early teens. Got the Gov.Gen award. Far better books with far better messages than this formula fiction supposedly reflecting today's reality. Shock value often masquerades as art.
Dec 14, 2014samdog123 rated this title 5 out of 5 stars
This is the Governor General's winner in the Children's literature category, but this is no children's book--its sad, gritty story of Jude/Judy, a transgendered teen. Judy's only escape from a horrible home life, taunting and bullying…