Ugly

Nic Summers is constantly taunted for being an “ugly lesbian,” even though she’s pretty sure she likes boys. After her best and only friend announces she’s moving, they try to find friends for Nic, but instead she starts questioning everything about herself. Nothing is making sense until she finds the term “gender nonconforming,” which seems like a good first step to understanding herself. But she still has to figure out what to do next.

Rights Contact
Kelly Vincent <kelly@kellyvincent.net>
Award(s)
Honor book in the 2022 SCBWI Spark Award for Older Readers
Contributor(s)
Kelly Vincent
Publisher
KV Books
ISBN-13
978-1-958342-00-8
Publication Date
Jun 7, 2022
Pages
392
Tags
#yafiction
#LGBTQ
Our Review (4 out of 5 stars)
Kind people make a beleaguered, artistic teenager’s life happier in the moving novel "Ugly". In Kelly Vincent’s empathetic novel "Ugly", an awkward, misunderstood teenager finds solace and salvation in her art. Nic is a high school sophomore in a conservative Oklahoma town who contends with... Read More