From Ginny Rorby, the author of Hurt Go Happy, winner of ALAs Schneider Family Book Award, comes Freeing Finch, the inspiring story of a transgender girl and a stray dog who overcome adversity to find love, home, and a place to belong. When her father leaves and her mother passes away soon afterward, Finch cant help feeling abandoned. Now shes stuck living with her stepfather and his new wife. Theyre mostly nice, but they dont believe the one true thing Finch knows about herself: that shes a girl, even though she was born in a boys body. Thankfully, she has Maddy, a neighbor and animal rescuer who accepts her for who she is. Finch helps Maddy care for a menagerie of lost and lonely creatures, including a scared, stray dog who needs a family and home as much as she does. As she earns the dogs trust, Finch realizes she must also learn to trust the people in her lifeeven if they are the last people she expected to love her and help her to be true to herself.
- | Author: Ginny Rorby
- | Publisher: Starscape
- | Publication Date: October 06, 2020
- | Number of Pages: 272 pages
- | Language: English
- | Binding: Paperback
- | ISBN-10: 125029374X
- | ISBN-13: 9781250293749