num_pages: 176
description: From the award-winning author of Melissa a phenomenal novel about queerness past present and future.Sam is very in touch with their own queer identity. They're nonbinary and their best friend TJ is nonbinary as well. Sam's family is very cool with it... as long as Sam remembers that nonbinary kids are also required to clean their rooms do their homework and try not to antagonize their teachers too much.The teacher-respect thing is hard when it comes to Sams history class because their teacher seems to believe that only Dead Straight Cis White Men are responsible for history. When Sams home borough of Staten Island opens up a contest for a new statue Sam finds the perfect non-DSCWM subject: photographer Alice Austen whose house has been turned into a museum and who lived with a female partner for decades.Soon Sam's project isn't just about winning the contest. It's about discovering a rich queer history that Sam's a part of -- a queer history that no longer needs to be quiet as long as there are kids like Sam and TJ to stand up for it.
language: English
title: Alice Austen Lived Here
publisher: Scholastic Press