Alex Gino
1) George =
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Jones Library - Trans Middle Grade Fiction
Shrewsbury - If You Liked Wonder
Southborough Banned Books
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Shrewsbury - If You Liked Wonder
Southborough Banned Books
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"When people look at George, they think they see a boy. But she knows she's not a boy. She knows she's a girl. George 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. George 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, George comes up with a plan....
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Middle school student Sam is comfortable with their nonbinary identity, and their family has accepted it too (as long as they do their homework and chores), so when their history teacher assigns as a project coming up with a proposal for the new statue honoring a historical Staten Islander (there is a contest involved) they and their friend TJ decide to focus on Alice Austen, a lesbian photographer, whose house on Staten Island is a museum--but they...
3) Melissa
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Clinton Library Pride Month - Youth
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MWCC 2025 Reading Challenge: March
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"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...
4) Rick
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He's gone along with his best friend Jeff, even when Jeff's acted like a bully and a jerk. He's let his father joke with him about which girls he might want to date, even though that kind of talk always makes Rick uncomfortable. In truth, he hasn't given his own identity much thought, because everyone else around him appears to have figured it out. But now Rick's gotten to middle school, and new doors are opening. One of them leads to the school's...
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"When her new baby sister is born deaf, Jilly makes an online connection with a fellow fantasy fan, who happens to be black and deaf, and begins to learn about the many obstacles that exist in the world for people who are different from her."-- (Source of summary not specified).
6) Green
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"Middle-grade superstar author Alex Gino returns to the world they began with MELISSA and RICK with GREEN, the story of a non-binary middle-schooler named Green who comes into their own in no small part by fighting for gender-free casting in their school's production of THE WIZARD OF OZ"-- Amazon.
7) George
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Galera Junior
Pub. Date
2016
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Quando as pessoas olham para George, acham que veem um menino. Mas ela sabe que não é um menino. Sabe que é menina. George acha que terá que guardar esse segredo para sempre: ser uma menina presa em um corpo de menino. Até que sua professora anuncia que a turma irá encenar "A teia de Charlotte", e George quer muito ser Charlotte, a aranha e protagonista da peça. Mas a professora diz que ela nem pode tentar o papel porque... é um menino. Com...
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Jilly thinks she's figured out how life works. But when her sister, Emma, is born deaf, she realizes how much she still has to learn. The world is going to treat Jilly, who is white and hearing, differently from Emma, just as it will treat them both differently from their Black cousins.
A big fantasy reader, Jilly makes a connection online with another fantasy fan, Derek, who is a Deaf, Black ASL user. She goes to Derek for help with Emma but doesn't...
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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,...
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"Ich bin kein Junge, ich bin ein Mädchen", würde George am liebsten laut schreien, wenn ihre Mutter "Mein Junge" zu ihr sagt. Aber sie traut sich nicht. Noch nicht einmal ihre beste Freundin weiß, was mit ihr los ist. Aber eines Tages entscheidet George, dass alle es wissen sollen ...
George erzählt vom Anderssein, von Träumen und Wünschen und macht Mut, seinen eigenen Weg zu gehen. Zu sein, wer man ist.
Der Musiker Rainer Bielfeldt begleitet...
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Nube de Tinta
Pub. Date
2016
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Cuando la gente ve a George, cree que es un niño. Pero ella sabe que no es verdad. George sabe que es una niña.
Knowing herself to be a girl despite her outwardly male appearance, George is denied a female role in the class play before teaming up with a friend to reveal her true self.