Rick
Rick's never questioned much. He's gone along with his best friend Jeff even when Jeff's acted like a bully and a jerk. 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. And he hasn't given his own identity much thought, because everyone else around him seemed to have figured it out.
But now Rick's gotten to middle school, and new doors are opening. 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. Rick wants his own life to be that . . . understood. Even if it means breaking some old friendships and making some new ones.
As they did in their groundbreaking novel Melissa, in Rick, award-winning author Alex Gino explores what it means to search for your own place in the world . . . and all the steps you and the people around you need to take in order to get where you need to be.
Author: Alex Gino
Publisher: Scholastic Press
Published: 04/21/2020
Pages: 240
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 0.74lbs
Size: 8.30h x 5.50w x 1.00d
ISBN: 9781338048100
Audience: Ages 9-12
Review Citation(s):
School Library Journal 02/01/2020 pg. 64
Booklist 02/01/2020 pg. 46
Publishers Weekly 02/24/2020
Bulletin of Ctr for Child Bks 04/01/2020
Shelf Awareness 04/24/2020
Kirkus Reviews 01/01/2020
About the Author
Alex Gino loves glitter, ice cream, gardening, awe-ful puns, and stories that reflect the diversity and complexity of being alive. Their first novel, Melissa, was a winner of the Children's Stonewall Award, the Lambda Literary Award, and the Children's Choice Book Award. For more about Alex, please visit them at alexgino.com.