Synchro BoyCondition: BRAND NEW ISBN: 9781551527444 Year: 2018 Publisher: Arsenal Pulp Press Description: Age range 14+ Bart is a teenaged boy drawn to synchronized swimming, which puts his masculinity and worse, his own expectations into question. Sixteen year old Bart Lively desperately wants to feel comfortable in his own skin. Being a jock doesn't mean he isn't the target of gay jokes, and the macho culture of his swim team is wearing him down. When he gives
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Condition: BRAND NEW ISBN: 9781551527444 Year: 2018 Publisher: Arsenal Pulp Press
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Age range 14+
Bart is a teenaged boy drawn to synchronized swimming, which puts his masculinity — and worse, his own expectations — into question.
Sixteen-year-old Bart Lively desperately wants to feel comfortable in his own skin. Being a jock doesn't mean he isn't the target of gay jokes, and the macho culture of his swim team is wearing him down. When he gives in to his curiosity and tries synchronized swimming, he discovers he has a natural talent -— not to mention a spark with one of the girls. So when Erika Tenaka asks him to swim the mixed duet with her, he commits to taking them all the way to the Olympics.
But judges' scores and Erika's sudden decision to quit the duet threaten to derail Bart's dream and kill what made the sport so liberating and alluring in the first place. And it doesn't help that as he falls in love with Erika, he's falling in lust with her frenemy ... not to mention a cute boy in the diving club.
Ultimately, Bart will have to give in to his intuition as it leads him to realize there are many ways to be a boy. If he doesn't, he'll lose not only his friendship with Erika but also his new Olympic dream — and the joy he feels as he dances in the deep.
'Synchro Boy is the kind of book the world needs more of: a book that challenges readers to think more deeply about gender and gender expression. Bart's story -- of a boy who has never fit easily into a gender stereotyped box, who has endured years of gender policing, who is bravely determined to find his own path in both sports and relationships -- is an important and powerful one. Readers will cheer Bar