Everything you need to understand or teach Ponyboy by Eliot Duncan.
Eliot Duncan's Ponyboy is a story of addiction, transmasculinity, and love centered around the titular main character, Ponyboy, a 20-something living in Europe and navigating the difficulties of life as a trans person and as a young person more generally yearning for connection. Written as a series of poetic episodes, the novel hops from place to place and continent to continent as Ponyboy tries to become the version of himself he wants, and needs, to be.