The Horn Book Guide

OLDER FICTION

Russo, Meredith

If I Was Your Girl

290 pp. | Flatiron | May, 2016 | Trade ISBN 978-1-250-07840-7 $17.99 | Ebook ISBN 978-1-250-07842-1

(2) YA Eighteen-year-old transgender woman Amanda goes to live with her previously unsupportive father in Tennessee, where no one knows her from her pre-transition life. She finds unexpected friendships and a blossoming relationship with tender and respectful Grant, who has a complicated past of his own. Amanda's story is neither overly sentimental nor didactic. Russo, herself a trans woman, crafts a thoughtful, truthful coming-of-age tale.

Reviewer: Kazia Berkley-Cramer | Horn Book Magazine Issue: July, 2016