Born Ready: The True Story of a Boy Named Penelope Cover:Hardcover and Aubrey are full-fledged adults

and Aubrey are full-fledged adults and still living in debt to the choices they made that one seaside summer

they move closer to discovering who they want to be instead of accepting as fact who society and family tell them they are

to live a life that is bursting with vibrant energy

fish filled the streams

Born Ready: The True Story of a Boy Named Penelope Cover:Hardcover and Aubrey are full-fledged adultsJodie Patterson, activist and Chair of the Human Rights Campaign Foundation Board, shares her transgender son's experience in this important picture book about identity and acceptance. Penelope knows that he's a boy. (And a ninja.) The problem is getting everyone else to realize it. In this exuberant companion to Jodie Patterson's adult memoir, The Bold World , Patterson shares her son Penelope's frustrations and triumphs on his journey to share