![]() ![]() and all the steps you and the people around you need to take in order to get where you need to be. Even if it means breaking some old friendships and making some new ones.Īs they did in their groundbreaking novel Melissa, in Rick, award-winning author Alex Gino explores what it means to search for your own place in the world. Callender has written several books for readers of all ages, including the National Book Award winner 'King and the Dragonflies,' a deeply felt tale of grief, racism and identity, and Stonewall. Alex Gino won the first ever Stonewall Book Award in the Childrens category for their debut, GEORGE, published by Scholastic. One of them leads to the school's Rainbow Spectrum club, where kids of many genders and identities congregate, including Melissa, the girl who sits in front of Rick in class and seems to have her life together. And he hasn't given his own identity much thought, because everyone else around him seemed to have figured it out.īut now Rick's gotten to middle school, and new doors are opening. ![]() ![]() He's let his father joke with him about which hot girls he might want to date even though that kind of talk always makes him uncomfortable. He's gone along with his best friend, Jeff, even when Jeff's acted like a bully and a jerk. ![]() From the award-winning author of Melissa, the story of a boy named Rick who needs to explore his own identity apart from his jerk of a best friend. Melissa (formerly published as George) by Alex Gino One of the most banned books of the year, Alex Ginos groundbreaking middle-grade book follows a young trans girl who discovers her. ![]()
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