Beast

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The work Beast represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Chemeketa Cooperative Regional Library Service (CCRLS). This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Language Material, Books.

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Label

Beast

Statement of responsibility

Brie Spangler

Creator

• trueSpangler, Brie

Author

• trueSpangler, Brie

Subject

• Young adult works
• Interpersonal relations -- Fiction
• Interpersonal relations -- Juvenile fiction
• Juvenile works
• Self-help groups
• Self-help groups -- Fiction
• Self-help groups -- Juvenile fiction
• trueTeenage boy misfits
• trueTeenage boys
• trueTeenage romance
• Transgender people
• Transgender people -- Fiction
• Transgender people -- Juvenile fiction
• trueTransgender teenagers
• Young adult fiction
• trueDating (Social customs)
• Dating (Social customs)
• Dating (Social customs) -- Fiction
• Dating (Social customs) -- Juvenile fiction
• Dystopias
• Dystopias
• Fiction
• trueFifteen-year-old boys
• trueGroup psychotherapy
• Interpersonal relations
• trueInterpersonal relations

Genre

• Dystopias
• Juvenile fiction
• Juvenile works
• Young adult fiction
• Young adult works
• Fiction

Language

eng

Summary

Tall, meaty, muscle-bound, and hairer than must throw rugs, Dylan doesn't look like your average fifteen-year-old, so, naturally, high school has not been kind to him. His nickname, Beast, already announces his every step. And to make matters worse, on the day his school bans the two things that let him hide, his hat and his long hair, Dylan goes up on his roof, only to fall and wake up in the hospital with a broken leg - and a sentence to attend group therapy for self-harmers. Dylan vows to say nothing and zones out during therapy - until he meets Jamie. She's funny, smart, and so stunning, even his womanizing best friend, JP, would be jealous. She's also the first person to ever call Dylan out on his superficiality. As Jamie's humanity and humor begin to rub off on Dylan, they become more than just friends. But there is something Dylan doesn't know about Jamie, something she shared with the group the day he was wallowing in self-pity and not listening. Something that shouldn't change a thing. She is who she's always been - an amazing photographer, a true romantic hidden inside a realist, and a devoted friend, who is also transgender. Will Dylan's hang-ups about himself cause him to lose the best girl he's even known? -- from dust jacket

Storyline

• trueCharacter-driven

Character

• trueAuthentic
• trueLGBTQIA diverse

Award

• Rainbow List, 2017.
• YALSA Best Fiction for Young Adults, 2018.

Awards note

American Library Association Best Fiction for Young Adults 2018.

Cataloging source

DLC

Dewey number

[Fic]

Index

no index present

Intended audience

• Young Adult
• HL610
• Structure indicator: 90 (high)
• Syntactic indicator: 90 (high)
• Semantic indicator: 100 (very high)
• Decoding indicator: 100 (very high)

Intended audience source

• Lexile
• Lexile

LC call number

PZ7.S7365

LC item number

Be 2016

Literary form

fiction

http://library.link/vocab/ext/novelist/minGradeLevel

• 9
• 12

Target audience

adolescent