The MoonStone Girls

<p><strong style=color: rgba(83 90 98 1)><em>KIRKUS STARRED REVIEW: </em></strong>A moving and romantic coming-out story and a triumphant celebration of lesbian liberation.</p><p><strong>GOLD MEDAL IPPY Award-</strong>Young Adult Fiction</p><p><strong style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>WINNER in the 2022 Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Award</strong></p><p><strong>GOLD MEDAL READERS FAVORITE Award</strong>-Young Adult Coming of Age</p><p><span style=color: rgba(83 90 98 1)>Tracy should have been a boy. Even her older brother Spencer says so though he wouldn't finish the thought with And I should have been a girl.</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(83 90 98 1)>Though both feel awkward in their own skin they have to face who they are-queers in the late 60s.</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(83 90 98 1)>When both are caught with gay partners their lives and futures are endangered by their homophobic father as their mother struggles to defend them.</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(83 90 98 1)>While the Vietnam War threatens to take Spencer away Tracy and her father wage a war of their own each trying to save the sweet talented pianist.</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(83 90 98 1)>At seventeen Tracy dresses as a boy and leaves her parents in turmoil with only the slimmest hope of finding peace within herself. She journeys to a girl with a guitar calling to her from a photo Come to Alaska. We'd be great friends.</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(83 90 98 1)>Maybe even The MoonStone Girls.</span></p>