![]() ![]() These are formative times, and kids deserve tools to make sense of the world around them. The earliest I can genuinely connect with young me as a person is around fourth grade, and the years after that are times of figuring out how you want to be in the world and who else is here. Why do you write for middle grade? What is it about that audience that appeals to you as a writer? Jilly P is another realistic middle-grade novel, this time focusing on a white hearing character who befriends a Deaf black boy online and, through conversations with him and her black aunt, starts to recognize, talk about, and respond to ableism and racism in her environment. George was published in 2015 and won numerous awards, including the Lambda Literary Award and the ALA’s Stonewall Award it has also been a frequent target of challenges and bans.Īlex Gino’s new book, You Don’t Know Everything, Jilly P!, was published in September and has received starred reviews from Kirkus, Publishers Weekly, and School Library Journal. Alex Gino is a long-time LGBTQ+ activist, but they are best known for George, their 2015 middle-grade novel whose titular character wants to be seen as a girl and prefers the name Melissa. ![]()
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