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The art of being normal

David Piper, always an outsider, forms an unlikely friendship with Leo Denton who, from the first day at his new school wants only to be invisible, but when David's deepest secret gets out, that he wants to be a girl, things get very messy for both of them.

Main Author: Williamson, Lisa, 1980- (Author)
Format: Books Print Book
Language: English
Published: New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2016.
Edition: First edition.
Subjects:
Transgender youth > Young adult fiction.
Friendship in adolescence > Young adult fiction.
Secrecy > Young adult fiction.
High schools > Young adult fiction.
Schools > Young adult fiction.
Summary: David Piper, always an outsider, forms an unlikely friendship with Leo Denton who, from the first day at his new school wants only to be invisible, but when David's deepest secret gets out, that he wants to be a girl, things get very messy for both of them.
Item Description: "Margaret Ferguson Books."
Physical Description: 344 pages ; 22 cm
ISBN: 9780374302375
0374302375
Author Notes: Lisa Williamson was born in 1980 in Nottingham, England. She studied drama at Middlesex University and since graduating has worked as an actor on stage and TV. Her debut novel The Art of Being Normal won the 2016 Waterstones Children¿s Book Prize for best older fiction.

(Bowker Author Biography)

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