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• Title:Rethinking normal : a memoir in transition / Katie Rain Hill ; with Ariel Schrag.
  
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• Author/Creator:Hill, Katie Rain, author.
  
• Other Contributors/Collections:Schrag, Ariel, author.
  
• Published/Created:New York : Simon & Schuster BFYR, 2015.
  

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  • Location:EDUCATION LIBRARY stacksWhere is this?
    
  • Call Number: HQ77.8.H55 A3 2015
    
  • Number of Items:1
    
  • Status:Available
    

   
• Library of Congress Subjects:Hill, Katie Rain--Juvenile literature.
  Transsexual youth--United States--Biography--Juvenile literature.
  Transgender youth--United States--Biography--Juvenile literature.
  Male-to-female transsexuals--United States--Biography--Juvenile literature.
  Transsexuals--Identity--Juvenile literature.
  Transgender people--Identity--Juvenile literature.
  
• Genre/Form:Autobiographies.
  Literature.
  
• Edition:First Simon & Schuster BFYR paperback edition.
  
• Description:266 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
  
• Summary:"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"-- Provided by publisher.
  
• Notes:Includes Reading Group Guide (pages [264]-266).
  Includes bibliographical references and filmography (pages 258-263).
  
• ISBN:9781481418249 (pbk.)
  1481418246 (pbk.)
  
• Contents:Machine generated contents note: 1. Blueberry Blue
  2. Welcome to TU!
  3. Arin Jig
  4. "Oh My God, There's a Transgender Person at Our School"
  5. There's a Kid in There
  6. Silver Palms
  7. Far from Okay in Okay
  8. Immortal Blood
  9. Magic Word
  10. List
  11. Other Guys
  12. "Go, Spartans!"
  13. Family of Five
  14. Biggest News
  15. Rainbow Beads, Cap and Gown, and a Neovagina
  16. Creating Change
  17. Mr. Sandman
  18. Pause for Dramatic Effect
  19. Beyond.