A new kind of big-hearted novel about being seen for who you really are. Amanda Hardy is the new girl in school. Like anyone else, all she wants is to make friends and fit in. But Amanda is keeping a secret, and she's determined not to get too close to anyone.
But when she meets sweet, easygoing Grant, Amanda can't help but start to let him into her life. As they spend more time together, she realizes just how much she is losing by guarding her heart. She finds herself yearning to share with Grant everything about herself, including her past. But Amanda's terrified that once she tells him the truth, he won't be able to see past it. Because the secret that Amanda's been keeping? It's that at her old school, she used to be Andrew. Will the truth cost Amanda her new life, and her new love? Meredith Russo's If I Was Your Girl is a universal story about feeling different?and a love story that everyone will root for. "Meredith Russo's debut is poignant and rare. If I Was Your Girl is the type of book you read and want to immediately share, because it's too important to keep to yourself." ?Julie Murphy, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Dumplin' "If I Was Your Girl is important and necessary and brave, and deeply, electrically inspiring. Read this wonderful book. Just read it." ?Jennifer Niven, New York Times bestselling author of All the Bright Places
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This book was an interesting read into the mind of Amanda, a teenage girl who goes through the emotions of being born and raised as a boy and never really feeling herself. She endures the hardships of a homophobic small town mindset and overcomes some extremely challenging obstacles. The book covers many different sides to her life, including her father feeling unable to accept the changes in his child and the loneliness that she feels having to deal with this. Bullying and ridicule at school isolates her but her achievement in breaking past her emotional walls when she meets new people at a new school, makes friends and finds love is heart warming and balances the story. Finally able to live as herself, she is then faced with the new challenges – to tell them of her experiences and face ridicule again, or has Amanda finally met people who will accept her for who she is and the strength to accept herself? This is an educated, supportive book for all readers and a great addition to the LGBTQI Young Adult collection.
