Description
A touching and humorous middle grade novel about transgender friendship and the right to be who you are.
Its summertime for eleven-year-old Marcus goes with his mother to a new city, where shell be working for the summer. Marcus is looking forward to it because he knows he can be himself therethe person he really is.
Within the first day of arriving, Marcus meets Mikkel, a neighborhood boy who looks totally dangerous with his aggressive and energetic appearance, and with his body full of tattoos. It turns out the tattoos are made by Mikkels brother and are actually in Indian ink, but still. Mikkel challenges Marcus in a number of skateboard tricks (both are addictive skateboarders), and after a crash where Mikkel helps Marcus, they become best friends. Blood brothersbros!something that means youll do anything for each other and always tell the truth.
But Marcus is struggling with a specific issue. Should he tell Mikkel this special thing, something that effects Marcus whole life? Marcus was at birth assigned a female gender, although Marcus has always known he is a boy. It is just the others around him who have a hard time understanding, including his friends at school, his grandma, and his father.
King Bro! is an emotional, poignant look at knowing who you are, but struggle with knowing how youll be accepted for being your true self.
Author: Jenny Jägerfeld
Binding Type: Hardcover
Publisher: Arctis
Published: 02/27/2024
Pages: 150
Weight: 0.57lbs
Size: 7.95h x 5.98w x 0.79d
ISBN: 9781646900404
Language: English
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