Booktalking "George" by Alex Gino
George loves acting, and she longs to act in the school play, Charlotte's Web. She adores her best friend, Kelly, and she enjoyes looking at teenage magazines. She has a wonderful older brother, Scott, and her parents are there for her, for the most part. However, George is bullied at school, and she feels a need to hide a part of herself that she fears people will not accept.
George is a girl.
Ten-year-old George has known that she is a girl for awhile, but she is stuck in a boy's body. Meanwhile, everyone is under the impression that she is male... or that she should be male.
George loves Seventeen magazines, and she longs for her skin to remain soft and smooth. She yearns for the opportunity to act as a female spider in the play at school. She wants her hair to look girly and her mother to not be ashamed of the magazines that contain girls that George considers to be her friends.
At least Kelly wants George to be her best girlfriend. And Scott seems to finally understand his younger sibling.
George by Alex Gino, 2015
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