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The Queen Bees of Tybee County by Kyle Casey Chu

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The Queen Bees of Tybee County

by Kyle Casey Chu

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Length 9 hours 32 minutes

Language English

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“Derrick Chan contains multitudes. He’s a star basketball player and he also secretly loves dresses and makeup. I loved how Derrick, when he’s sent to live with his grandmother, begins to lean in to his multiple identities and realizes it’s all him. And how he begins to understand his dad a bit better, given the generational racism against Chinese Americans, in a small town in Georgia. But mostly it’s his embrace of drag and the JOY it brings to him and how important that joy is to be his full self. This was a sweet coming out and coming of age story. I loved this so much.”
— Audrey • Belmont Books

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About the author

Better Nate Than Ever meets Dumplin’ in this charming, poignant debut by Kyle Casey Chu, aka Panda Dulce, a founding queen of Drag Story Hour.

After making the buzzer-beating shot at the Georgia basketball state championships, Derrick Chan becomes the star of Bayard Middle School, and Derrick’s single dad could not be prouder. But there are parts of Derrick that no one knows about, like the toenail polish he wears under his basketball sneakers, his secret lip-sync performances in the bathroom mirror, and the feelings he’s developing for his best friend and teammate, JJ.

As the school year comes to a close, Derrick’s dad takes an out-of-town job and ships Derrick off to spend the summer with his estranged, eccentric grandmother, Claudia. Soon, Claudia introduces Derrick to the world of small-town southern beauty pageants, and Derrick suddenly feels he’s found where he belongs. But when the opportunity arises to compete in the town pageant, Derrick is forced to decide just how much of himself he’s ready to show the world.

Can he learn to love and accept the most unique parts of himself? And what will happen if others—like his father and JJ—can’t do the same?

Children's LGBTQIA+ Fiction

Kyle Casey Chu (aka Panda Dulce) is a writer, filmmaker, and one of the founding queens of Drag Story Hour. In June 2022, far-right extremists stormed her Drag Story Hour in an attempt to silence her. She is now using her global platform to tell even gayer stories. She lives in San Francisco, within nagging distance of her families (both drag and biological). The Queen Bees of Tybee County is her first novel.