Parrotfish by Ellen Wittlinger

Wittlinger, Ellen. Parrotfish. Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, 2011. Print.

Angela Katz-McNair is a Boy! Oh, boy! Never comfortable as a girl Angela Katz-McNair decides to cut her hair short, buy some boy’s clothes, and ask everyone to start calling her Grady. Grady never expects his transformation to be as easy as that of the Parrotfish, a species of fish that naturally changes its gender over the span of its life, but he also didn’t think that anyone would be quite as cruel as some of the kids at school. Despite the taunts that Grady faces he manages to come out on top with the help of an initially befuddled family and best friend and the love of the hottest girl in school.