Gender-Nonconforming Book in Elem, MS, and HS Libraries
This book is found in the following school district libraries and may be found in other districts as well:
Dallas ISD at the elementary, middle school, and high school levels (How is a book appropriate for all of these grade levels? Should a second grader and a twelfth grader be reading the same book?)
Plano ISD at the elementary and middle school levels
Rockwall ISD at the middle school level
Coppell ISD at the middle school level
Denton ISD at the middle school level
Houston ISD at the elementary, middle, and high school levels
Richardson ISD at the elementary and junior high levels
Leander ISD at the elementary and middle school levels
Irving ISD at the elementary and middle school levels
McKinney ISD at the middle and high school levels
Fort Worth at the elementary and middle school levels
Melissa ISD at the elementary, 6th grade center, and middle school levels
Sherman ISD at the middle school level
Grapevine-Colleyville ISD at the middle school level
Frisco ISD at the middle school level
This is a screenshot of the book's description from Dallas ISD's online catalog:
Birdie and me
by Nuanez, J. M. M.
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Summary
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 each try to provide one--first sweet Uncle Carl, then gruff Uncle Patrick--the results are funny, tender, and tragic.
They're also somehow . . . spectacular.
With voices and characters that soar off the page, J. M. M. Nuanez's debut novel depicts an unlikely family caught in a situation none of them would have chosen, and the beautiful ways in which they finally come to understand one another.
Here are screenshots of some pages from the book:
The first two pages of the book establish that the narrator's little brother is named Birdie. The narrator's name is Jack. Birdie wears lip gloss and wears a scarf hoping to look like Audrey Hepburn.
On page 21, we learn that Patrick (the father figure) does not like Birdie's cross-dressing and that Birdie's teacher won't let him have his purse in class.
On the following pages, a girl named Janet asks Birdie if he is gay and Jack wonders if Birdie knows he is really a girl and is just too afraid to say anything.
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