Beautiful Music for Ugly Children

Beautiful Music for Ugly Children is a young adult novel by Kirstin Cronn-Mills, published October 8, 2012, by North Star Editions. The book tells the story of Gabe, a transgender youth. It received various awards and was a finalist for the Lambda Literary Award for Children's and Young Adult Literature.

When Cronn-Mills was writing the book, she frequently visited RECLAIM, "a Twin Cities-based organization that offers counseling and other services to transsexual [sic] and LGBT youth." Anyone who donated at least ten dollars to the organization received a copy of Beautiful Music for Ugly Children.

Reception
Beautiful Music for Ugly Children received positive reviews from Booklist, Kirkus Reviews, Publishers Weekly, and School Library Journal.