First, obviously, young readers sharing the experience that the main character in this book has deserve to see themselves on the page as the hero of a story. It’s about her right to her identity and to be known as she truly is.Ī story like this is important for a lot of reasons. I think I expected or wanted to see more of what her process looked like for arriving at that realization, but this story isn’t really about how she got there. She’d already processed and concluded: the problem was she was a girl everyone saw as a boy. She wasn’t gathering and analyzing her feelings to try to figure out what they were or what they meant. One of the things that struck me about this book was how, from the very first moment of the story, Melissa’s identity wasn’t a question.
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