Between Perfect and Real

Ray Stoeve’s Between Perfect and Real is a moving YA debut about a trans boy finding his voice—and himself.

A Junior Library Guild Gold Standard Selection

Dean Foster knows he’s a trans guy. He’s watched enough YouTube videos and done enough questioning to be sure. But everyone at his high school thinks he’s a lesbian—including his girlfriend, Zoe, and his theater director, who just cast him as a “nontraditional” Romeo. He wonders if maybe it would be easier to wait until college to come o...