![]() Our heroine is Melissa, a fourth grader who likes playing video games, goofing around with her best friend, and going to Arnie’s All-You-Can-Eat-Buffet with her mom and brother. I put off reading it for days until one night I couldn’t wait any longer and picked it up and fell in love. What if it wasn’t a good book? What if the advance praise I had heard was all wrong and it was full of tired clichés about trans women? What if I hated the writing so much that I couldn’t in good faith recommend it to anyone? For years I had been waiting for a book like this, a book I wish I had had in elementary school, and now that it was finally here I didn’t know if I was prepared to not like it. Once I was actually holding it in my hands however I began to get worried. I was ecstatic, overjoyed, thrilled, full of happy tears. ![]() A book about a trans girl written for an elementary/middle-school audience by an actual trans author? It was almost too good to believe. From the moment I first heard about Alex Gino’s debut work I was willing to do anything to get my hands on a copy. ![]() I can’t fully express how relieved I am to be able to say that. ![]()
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