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Melissa (previously published as GEORGE)
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bookshelves: middle-grade, best-of-the-year, fiction, must-read-kid-lit
Mar 23, 2016
bookshelves: middle-grade, best-of-the-year, fiction, must-read-kid-lit
George is a children's book unlike any other and is much needed in today's ever changing, ever transitioning world.
George looks like a boy on the outside, but on the inside she knows she's a girl. When it's announced that George's class will perform Charlotte's Web for the school play, George yearns to be cast as Charlotte. But Charlotte is a girl's part, and George can't even tryout because everyone thinks she's a boy. George sets her sights on playing Charlotte and devises a plan to prove who she is -- to be who she is -- once and for all.
Alex Gino's heart-warming book examines the subtle ways in which society inadvertently reinforces gender roles, bringing to light how harmful such behaviors can be. Further topics covered include the importance of being open minded toward another person's perspective, what it's like to feel trapped in the wrong body, and the importance of practicing empathy.
George looks like a boy on the outside, but on the inside she knows she's a girl. When it's announced that George's class will perform Charlotte's Web for the school play, George yearns to be cast as Charlotte. But Charlotte is a girl's part, and George can't even tryout because everyone thinks she's a boy. George sets her sights on playing Charlotte and devises a plan to prove who she is -- to be who she is -- once and for all.
Alex Gino's heart-warming book examines the subtle ways in which society inadvertently reinforces gender roles, bringing to light how harmful such behaviors can be. Further topics covered include the importance of being open minded toward another person's perspective, what it's like to feel trapped in the wrong body, and the importance of practicing empathy.
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Quotes Hannah Liked
“The play passed by quickly, and yet it seemed to George as though she had been onstage since the beginning of time, as if she were born there and had only now found herself where she had always been.”
― Melissa
― Melissa
Reading Progress
Started Reading
March 23, 2016
– Shelved
March 23, 2016
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Finished Reading
August 25, 2016
– Shelved as:
middle-grade
December 21, 2020
– Shelved as:
best-of-the-year
December 31, 2020
– Shelved as:
fiction
February 18, 2021
– Shelved as:
must-read-kid-lit
