his pride and joy

An uplifting read

This is a book about a bad seed

And can Bird work up the courage to tell his best friend something important

What if you don’t even know what gender you are

The Forbidden Book Nikkolas Smith his pride and joyDybbuks. Illegal printing. A genderqueer lesbian with a knife. Set against a backdrop of literary censorship and growing Jewish political consciousness, Sydney Taylor and Stonewall award winning Sacha Lamb's sophomore novel is a soaring exploration of identity, survival, and ultimately, hope. On the night before her wedding, 17 year old Sorel leaps from a window and runs away from her life. To keep from being discovered, she takes on the male identity