Debut author Ami Polonsky’s moving, beautifully-written novel shines with the strength of a young person’s spirit and the enduring power of acceptance. azy wie w Polsce pooona w wojewdztwie mazowieckim, w powiecie piaseczyskim, w gminie Lesznowola 4 3. Strengthened by an unexpected friendship and a caring teacher who gives her a chance to step into the spotlight, Grayson might finally have the tools to let her inner light shine. She is a middle school English teacher and a parent of two kids, one of whom exists happily beneath the trans umbrella. Despite these dangers, Grayson’s true self itches to break free. Ami Polonsky is the author of the critically-acclaimed Gracefully Grayson and Threads. The weight of this secret is crushing, but leaving it behind would mean facing ridicule, scorn, and rejection. Because Grayson has been holding onto a secret for what seems like forever: “he” is a girl on the inside, stuck in the wrong gender’s body. But at school, Grayson grasps at shadows, determined to fly under the radar. You can read this before Gracefully Grayson PDF full Download at the bottom.Īlone at home, twelve-year-old Grayson Sender glows, immersed in beautiful thoughts and dreams.
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(Jan.Brief Summary of Book: Gracefully Grayson by Ami Polonsky Agent: Wendy Schmalz, Wendy Schmalz Agency. Iris’s father says that writing a poem means first identifying its “beating heart” foregrounding believable, dynamic characters and showing both the cost of inaction and fear around the HIV/AIDS crisis, and the power of activism to bring change and build community, Polonsky has done just that. Alongside emotional first-person prose peppered with mentions of era-specific entities and people-ACT UP, Indiana teen Ryan White-acrostic poems exchanged by Iris and her father address themes of life’s fragility as well as managing grief and rage. This dual-perspective ode to the joys and complications of first love follows Essie Rosenberg, a white girl from St. Surprising herself, though, she suddenly tells new kid Julian, who’s just moved from Indiana and doesn’t balk at the news, or at Iris’s family situation-she and her mother live in the same West Village building as her father and his boyfriend. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 16.99 (336p) ISBN 978-0-3743-1350-0.
People at Iris’s largely white, private New York City school know her father is gay, but Iris hasn’t told her friends, DnD players who head up an after-school Philanthropy Club, that he’s sick. Set in 1987, this short, emotionally charged novel by Polonsky ( Spin with Me) follows a few months in the life of seventh grader Iris Cohen, whose father is dying of AIDS.
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