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Baby Drag Queen

by C. a. Tanaka

A drag contest and a plan for escape

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A drag contest and a plan for escape

In his final year of high school, Ichiro balances a dishwashing job with drag performances, hoping the prize money from a local contest will help him buy a camper van for himself and his single mother. His plans depend on keeping his evening work private, but as friends discover his secret, questions of acceptance enter the story. The novel brings together a transgender teen’s family responsibilities, financial pressures, and emerging drag career, with the contest linking Ichiro’s immediate hopes to his longer-term dream of life off the grid.

Good fit for readers who enjoy

  • Teen and young adult readers interested in transgender characters and LGBTQ+ themes.
  • Readers seeking fiction about drag performance, family responsibility, and questions of friendship and acceptance.
  • Readers building reading skills or looking for a short novel, as described by the publisher.

Themes

Transgender identityDrag performanceFamily responsibilityFinancial hardshipFriendship and acceptance

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Book overview

Transgender teen Ichiro enters a drag contest in hopes of earning enough money to live off the grid.

Ichiro is a transgender youth in his final year of high school. He has a job as a dishwasher to earn money to help support his single mother. But it's not enough. Ichiro dreams of buying a camper van for the two of them so they can escape and live off the grid and not have to worry about money anymore. A budding drag queen, he takes a second job performing drag at a local club and learns of an upcoming contest where the prize money would be enough to pay for a camper van. But nobody knows he does drag. So when some of his friends find out what he's really doing in the evenings, Ichiro is worried about what they will think of him. Will they still accept him?

This short novel is a high-interest, low-reading level book for teen readers who are building reading skills, want a quick read or say they don't like to read! The epub edition of this title is fully accessible.

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