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Rethinking Normal: A Memoir in Transition
Contributor(s): Hill, Katie Rain (Author)
ISBN: 1481418238     ISBN-13: 9781481418232
Publisher: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
OUR PRICE:   $16.19  
Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats
Published: September 2014
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Additional Information
BISAC Categories:
- Juvenile Nonfiction | Biography & Autobiography - General
- Juvenile Nonfiction | Social Topics - Self-esteem & Self-reliance
- Juvenile Nonfiction | Social Topics - Bullying
Dewey: B
LCCN: 2014013051
Lexile Measure: 880
Physical Information: 1.1" H x 5.7" W x 8.3" (0.80 lbs) 272 pages
Themes:
- Topical - Friendship
Accelerated Reader Info
Quiz #: 170941
Reading Level: 5.7   Interest Level: Upper Grades   Point Value: 10.0
 
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Publisher Description:
In her unique, generous, and affecting voice, nineteen-year-old Katie Hill shares her personal journey of undergoing gender reassignment.

Have you ever worried that you'd never be able to live up to your parents' expectations? Have you ever imagined that life would be better if you were just invisible? Have you ever thought you would do anything--anything--to make the teasing stop? Katie Hill had and it nearly tore her apart.

Katie never felt comfortable in her own skin. She realized very young that a serious mistake had been made; she was a girl who had been born in the body of a boy. Suffocating under her peers' bullying and the mounting pressure to be "normal," Katie tried to take her life at the age of eight years old. After several other failed attempts, she finally understood that "Katie"--the girl trapped within her--was determined to live.

In this first-person account, Katie reflects on her pain-filled childhood and the events leading up to the life-changing decision to undergo gender reassignment as a teenager. She reveals the unique challenges she faced while unlearning how to be a boy and shares what it was like to navigate the dating world and experience heartbreak for the first time in a body that matched her gender identity. Told in an unwaveringly honest voice, Rethinking Normal is a coming-of-age story about transcending physical appearances and redefining the parameters of "normalcy" to embody one's true self.


Contributor Bio(s): Hill, Katie Rain: - Katie Rain Hill is a student at the University of Tulsa majoring in anthropology and sociology. She wrote this memoir while studying for exams, writing term papers, working part-time as a pharmaceutical technician, and advocating for LGBTQA rights. Rethinking Normal is her first book.