Spin with Me

by Ami Polonsky (Author)

Spin with Me
Reading Level: 6th − 7th Grade

From the author of the critically acclaimed Gracefully Grayson comes a thoughtful and sensitive middle-grade novel about non-binary identity and first love, Ami Polonsky's Spin with Me.

In this elegant dual narrative, Essie is a thirteen-year-old girl feeling glum about starting a new school after her professor dad takes a temporary teaching position in a different town. She has 110 days here and can't wait for them to end. Then she meets Ollie: delicate, blue eyes, short hair, easy smile. 

At first, Essie thinks she has a typical crush on a beautiful boy. But as her crush blossoms, she soon realizes that Ollie is not a boy or a girl, but gender non-binary.

Meanwhile, Ollie is experiencing a crush of their own . . . on Essie. As Ollie struggles to balance their passion for queer advocacy with their other interests, they slowly find themselves falling for a girl whose stay is about to come to an end. Can the two unwind their merry-go-round of feelings before it's too late?

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A BookRiot Best Book for Pride Month!
Ami Polonsky
Ami Polonsky is the author of the critically-acclaimed Gracefully Grayson and Threads. She is a middle school English teacher and a parent of two kids, one of whom exists happily beneath the trans umbrella.
Classification
Fiction
ISBN-13
9781250802095
Lexile Measure
600
Guided Reading Level
-
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux (Byr)
Publication date
February 15, 2022
Series
-
BISAC categories
JUV039020 - Juvenile Fiction | Social Themes | Adolescence
JUV026000 - Juvenile Fiction | Love & Romance
JUV060000 - Juvenile Fiction | LGBT
Library of Congress categories
Friendship
Schools
Middle schools
Gender-nonconforming people
BookRiot Best Book for Pride Month
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