Nine-year-old Sam and his older sister, Maggie, don’t always get along. Maggie can be bossy and irritating. But when Sam is crying after school one day, Maggie is quick to comfort him. “Isabel, what’s wrong?” Kids at school were talking about the differences between boys and girls, and Sam worries that he was “born wrong.” Everyone—including Maggie—thinks that Sam is a girl. That night, Sam confides in Maggie, telling her that he’s always been a boy, and his name isn’t Isabel. It’s Sam. With Maggie’s support, Sam comes out to his parents, who are supportive while acknowledging that the family will “have a lot to learn, together.” Sam’s feelings are appropriately centered in this intentional but loving coming-out story in which readers refreshingly meet brown-skinned Sam as Sam before learning that he is transgender. (Ages 5–7)