Birdie and Me
Book description
An emotional and uplifting debut about a girl named Jack and her gender creative little brother, Birdie, searching for the place where they can be their true and best selves.
After their mama dies, Jack and Birdie find themselves without a place to call home. And when Mama's two brothers…
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Why read it?
1 author picked Birdie and Me as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
Here’s a story focused on a gender-atypical main character where the book isn’t about being genderqueer or being nonbinary or whatever.
Birdie’s gender characteristics are just there, the same way that a book set in Manhattan can have Manhattan in the foreground without being a book about Manhattan. I like the way that being gay and being trans are discarded as not really applicable to Birdie without some other replacement identity being pushed forward instead.
From Allan's list on LGBTQIA+ YA on coming out and coming of age.
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