You Don't Know Everything, Jilly P! (Scholastic Gold)

by Alex Gino

Overview

Rebecca F. Kuang is the #1 New York Times and #1 Sunday Times bestselling author of the Poppy War trilogy, Babel: An Arcane History, Yellowface, and Katabasis. Her work has won the Nebula, Locus, Crawford, and British Book Awards. A Marshall Scholar, she has an MPhil in Chinese Studies from Cambridge and an MSc in Contemporary Chinese Studies from Oxford. She is now pursuing a PhD in East Asian Languages and Literatures at Yale, where she studies diaspora, contemporary Sinophone literature, and Asian American literature.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780545956253
Publisher:	Scholastic, Inc.
Publication date:	05/05/2020
Pages:	256
Product dimensions:	5.20(w) x 7.50(h) x 0.70(d)
Age Range:	8 - 12 Years

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.

Editorial Reviews

Praise for You Don't Know Everything, Jilly P!:

* "Gino's sophomore effort is every bit as affecting and important as their first novel." -- School Library Journal, starred review

* "[You Don't Know Everything, Jilly P!'s] thoughtful handling of characters and dynamics offers fodder for further discussion about privilege in all its forms." -- Publishers Weekly, starred review

* "A necessary and rewarding addition to any middle-grade collection." -- Kirkus Reviews, starred review

Praise for Melissa:

Winner of the Children's Stonewall Award

Winner of the Lambda Literary Award

A Children's Choice Book Awards Debut Author

* "Profound, moving, and -- as Charlotte would say -- radiant, this book will stay with anyone lucky enough to find it." -- Publishers Weekly, starred review

* "Warm, funny, and inspiring." -- Kirkus Reviews, starred review

* "There is pain... but not without the promise of a better tomorrow." -- School Library Journal, starred review

* "An appealing, thoroughly believable character and her best friend Kelly adds humor and zest." -- Booklist, starred review

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