num_pages: 256
description: Seventeen-year-old Arin Andrews shares all the hilarious painful and poignant details of undergoing gender reassignment as a high school student in this winning memoir. We've all felt uncomfortable in our own skin at some point and we've all been told that it's just a part of growing up. But for Arin Andrews it wasn't a phase that would pass. He had been born in the body of a girl and there seemed to be no relief in sight. In this revolutionary memoir Arin details the journey that led him to make the life-transforming decision to undergo gender reassignment as a high school junior. In his captivatingly witty honest voice Arin reveals the challenges he faced as a girl the humiliation and anger he felt after getting kicked out of his private school and all the changes both mental and physical he experienced once his transition began. Arin also writes about the thrill of meeting and dating a young transgender woman named Katie Hill and the heartache that followed after they broke up. Some Assembly Required is a true coming-of-age story about knocking down obstacles and embracing family friendship and first love. But more than that it is a reminder that self-acceptance does not come ready-made with a manual and spare parts. Rather some assembly is always required.
language: English
title: Some Assembly Required: The Not-So-Secret Life of a Transgender Teen
publisher: Simon  Schuster Books for Young Readers