6/8/2023 0 Comments Melissa by alex ginoTo Gino’s surprise, they eventually acquired an agent for the project and ultimately sold it to Scholastic, in 2014. “It was a little pet project,” Gino told PW. Gino’s original intent was to print a few copies for distribution to trans youth via their local PFLAG organizations. In 2003, nonbinary author Gino, whose pronouns are they and them, began writing a story about a trans girl, the eponymous main character pre-transition, navigating gender identity and presentation when she is denied the chance to audition for the role of Charlotte in her school’s production of Charlotte's Web due to erroneously being labeled a boy. Alex Gino’s acclaimed trans middle grade novel George (Scholastic Press, 2015) is receiving an update in the form of a new name and a brand-new cover.
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