Rick wants his own life to be that … understood. One of them leads to the school’s Rainbow Spectrum club, where kids of many genders and identities congregate, including Melissa, the girl who sits in front of Rick in class and seems to have her life together. And he hasn’t given his own identity much thought, because everyone else around him seemed to have figured it out.īut now Rick’s gotten to middle school, and new doors are opening. He’s let his father joke with him about which hot girls he might want to date even though that kind of talk always makes him uncomfortable. He’s gone along with his best friend Jeff even when Jeff’s acted like a bully and a jerk. Lots of different kinds of people, and lots of different kinds of relationships.”ĪBOUT : From the award-winning author of George, the story of a boy named Rick who needs to explore his own identity apart from his jerk of a best friend. There are lots of different ways of being. *LGBTQIAP+ resources below * Image via Goodreadsįavorite Passage: “You are the person who knows yourself better than anyone else.
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