Freeing Finch

Name: Freeing Finch
Brand: Recorded Books
Availability: InStock
Author: Ginny Rorby
ISBN: 9781980046196

Author: Ginny Rorby

Narrator: Maybe Burke

Unabridged: 7 hr 11 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Recorded Books

Published: 10/01/2019

Categories: Children's Fiction, Children's Lifestyles, Animal Stories

Synopsis

From the author of Hurt Go Happy, winner of ALA's 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 can't help feeling abandoned. Now she's stuck living with her stepfather and his new wife. They're mostly nice, but they don't believe the one true thing Finch knows about herself: that she's a girl, even though she was born in a boy's 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 dog's trust, Finch realizes she must also learn to trust the people in her life-even if they are the last people she expected to love her and help her to be true to herself.

About Ginny Rorby

Ginny Rorby holds undergraduate degrees in biology and English from the University of Miami and an MFA in creative writing from Florida International University. Her young adult novel, Dolphin Sky, was nominated for the Keystone to Reading Book Award. She is also director of the Point Cabrillo Lightkeepers Association. She lives in Fort Bragg, California.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Veronica on November 03, 2019

ARC via Netgalley. Oh boy, how to put this. This book is about a trans protagonist but it doesn't feel like the author has really internalized how bad transphobia feels to the person on the receiving end of it. Finch is trans. Her mother is dead, leaving her with only one supportive adult in her lif......more

Goodreads review by Norma on November 03, 2019

I am a grownup who loves books about and for young people. My new favorite is "Freeing Finch," the story of a young girl who finds herself trapped in a boy's body. When I was growing up, the world was strictly binary, with no tolerance for anything between. We had tomboy girls and sissy boys, but ev......more

Goodreads review by Kate on November 05, 2019

As a heterosexual woman raised and imprinted with the values of the 1950’s, I confess it is difficult to overcome my early imprinting about sexuality. Boys are boys. Girls are girls. Period. However, research has shown that there are gray areas in between. These findings, along with books like “Free......more

Goodreads review by Johanna on October 13, 2019

At its heart, this affecting YA novel is about belonging, about finding one's place in the world. Finch Delgado's gutless father has taken off; her mother is dead. Finch lives with her unemployed stepfather, a man she barely knows, and his wife. Finch is a transgender girl on the cusp of puberty. Gi......more

Goodreads review by Lee on October 31, 2021

lovely, just lovely......more