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Melissa

by Gino, Alex,

Format: Print Book 2022
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Summary
BE WHO YOU ARE.

When people look at Melissa, they think they see a boy named George. But she knows she's not a boy. She knows she's a girl.

Melissa thinks she'll have to keep this a secret forever. Then her teacher announces that their class play is going to be Charlotte's Web. Melissa really, really, REALLY wants to play Charlotte. But the teacher says she can't even try out for the part... because she's a boy.

With the help of her best friend, Kelly, Melissa comes up with a plan. Not just so she can be Charlotte -- but so everyone can know who she is, once and for all.

Published Reviews
Booklist Review: "*Starred Review* Ten-year-old George has a secret. Everyone thinks she is a boy, but inside she knows that she is really a girl named Melissa. When her fourth-grade class prepares to mount a dramatic production of Charlotte's Web, George knows that more than anything in the world, she wants to play the part of Charlotte. After all, who cares if she plays a girl's part? Hasn't her best friend Kelly told her that, in Shakespeare's time, men played all the parts, even those of girls and women? But things aren't that simple, not even when George summons the courage to dramatically show her single-parent mom the truth. Gino's debut novel is a sensitive, insightful portrayal of a transgender child coming to terms with gender identity. George is an appealing, thoroughly believable character, and her best friend Kelly adds humor and zest to this gentle story. Gino does an excellent job introducing factual information into the narrative without impinging upon the accessible and appealing story. Pair this important addition to the slender but growing body of transgender fiction with Ami Polonsky's Gracefully Grayson (2014).--Cart, Michael Copyright 2015 Booklist"
From Booklist, Copyright (c) American Library Association. Used with permission.
Additional Information
Subjects Transgender children -- Juvenile fiction.
Gender identity -- Juvenile fiction.
Middle school students -- Juvenile fiction.
Bullying -- Juvenile fiction.
Friendship -- Juvenile fiction.
Transgender people -- Fiction.
Gender identity -- Fiction.
Middle school students -- Fiction.
Bullies and bullying -- Fiction.
Friendship -- Fiction.
Transgender fiction.
Social problem fiction.
Novels.
Publisher New York :Scholastic Press,2022
Edition First edition.
Other Titles Melissa's story
George
Language English
Notes "Previously published as George"--Dust jacket.
Description 195 pages ; 22 cm
ISBN 9781338843408
1338843400
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