Double Exposure

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Fifteen year old Alyx Atlas was raised as a boy, yet she knows something others don t She s a girl And after her dad dies, it becomes painfully obvious that she must prove it now to herself and to the world Born with ambiguous genitalia, Alyx has always felt a little different But it s after she sustains a terrible beating behind a 7 Eleven that she and her mother pack up their belongings and move from California to Milwaukee, Wisconsin, to start a new life and Alyx begins over again, this time as a girl.Alyx quickly makes new friends, earns a spot on the girls varsity basketball team, and for the first time in her life feels like she fits in That is, until her prowess on the court proves too much for the jealous, hotheaded Pepper Pitmani, who sets out to uncover Alyx s secret A dangerous game of Truth or Dare exposes Alyx s difference and will disqualify her entire basketball team from competing in the state championships unless Alyx can prove, once and for all, that she is a girl But will Alyx find the courage to stand up for the truth of her personhood, or will she do what she s always done run away Whatever she decides, she knows there s much at stake than a championship win. Download Double Exposure – kino-fada.fr Alyx is a great character, and I really appreciated that she was so sure about her gender identity in the face of everyone and everything else saying that she was either wrong or ambiguous Also, when s the last time you read a ya book about girls basketballI was lucky enough to meet Bridget Birdsall this past week at the Saints and Sinners Literary Festival we were on a YA panel together, alongside Jeffrey Ricker and Greg Herren I try to do my homework, and read books by authors when I m going to be speaking with them, and I m so glad I got pegged for the YA panel not only was it a fantastic panel, it meant I bumped into this book.On the basis of character alone, this book was worthwhile Alyx is the first intersex teen I ve ever read, and th I was lucky enough to meet Bridget Birdsall this past week at the Saints and Sinners Literary Festival we were on a YA panel together, alongside Jeffrey Ricker and Greg Herren I try to do my homework, and read books by authors when I m going to be speaking with them, and I m so glad I got pegged for the YA panel not only was it a fantastic panel, it meant I bumped into this book.On the basis of character alone, this book was worthwhile Alyx is the first intersex teen I ve ever read, and that she has such a genuine voice is a credit to Birdsall s effort Aly...An extremely important novel about an intersex YA Alyx is an unforgettable character Full review to come But I highly recommend this sensitive, thoughtful, enlightening novelDouble Exposure is blank While there are possibly many ways the blank could be filled in, I have three that come to me.First, Double Exposure is important I have some issues with this whole important thing, as I sometimes think it leads to inflated ratings on books For the most part, I think books should stand on their own as good books and anything in them that makes them important is compelling, but shouldn t garner a high rating all on its own As a compromise, if I m in between rating Double Exposure is blank While there are possibly many ways the blank co...Why haven t we heardabout this book published in 2014 I m sad I missed it, but so glad I found it There is no question of the need and value of Birdsall s story, so the matter of fact delivery is refreshing It s got the right mix of character development, intrigue, every day problems and issues, family drama, and quirk I mean who wouldn t want to meet the uncle Alyx had a painfully revealing experience with a group of boys in his hometown in California This was the straw that she too Why haven t we heardabout this book published in 2014 I m sad I missed it, but so glad I found it There is no question of the need and value of Birdsall s story, so the matter of fact delivery is refreshing It s got the right mix of character development, intrigue, every day problems and issues, family drama, and quirk I mean who wouldn t want to meet the uncle Alyx had a painfully revealing experience with a group of boys in his hometown in California This was the straw that she took then to ask her mother after her father has just passed from cancer to move back to Alyx s mother s h...What would you do if you didn t know which sex you belonged to You have genitalia of both sexes Are you a freak, an alien This iscommon than people realize and when kids get older and the parents choose not to decide the babies sex at birth to have the surgery to correct it, kids usually are teased mercilessly or worse bullied to any extremes.Why hasn t thereliterature for kids dealing with this and for kids to understand it Bridget Birdsall has created a phenomenal Young Adult bo What would you do if you didn t know which sex you belonged to You have genitalia of both sexes Are you a freak, an alien This iscommon than people realize and when kids get older and the parents choose not to decide the babies sex at birth to have the su...A fifteen year old born intersex finally gets a chance to live and play ball as the girl she s always known herself to be in contemporary Milwaukee I highly recommend it for older middle schoolers on up.One of my favorite things about YA lit is that it helps teens develop empathy for others for this reason, one of my all time favorite YA books is Fat Kid Rules the World Double Exposure is about an intersex teen who feels that she should have been raised as a girl and not a boy as her parents decided After her father dies and she s been beaten to a pulp for the third or fourth time, her mother decides to move them back to her hometown, where Alyx struggles to fin...You gotta make friends, Alyx Don t be loser loner it s the only way to survive high school Wisconsin author Bridget Birdsall is dyslexic definition dyslexia is a learning disorder characterized by difficulty reading due to problems identifying speech sounds and learning how they relate to letters and words The fact that she is able to write a book so profoundly sensitive and with such agility of technique can be both a result of her coping with that dysfunction and with first hand unders You gotta make friends, Alyx Don t be loser loner it s the only way to survive high school Wisconsin author Bridget Birdsall is dyslexic definition dyslexia i...Aren t we all queer Different Odd Peculiar Strange Freaky Weird Losers in our own way It may have taken the first fifteen years of her life, but Alyx Atlas is coming to terms with who, or some may say, what she is.Born intersexed, Alyx has both male and female genitalia This rare condition was explained to her parents by the doctor who suggested that surgery could be performed immediately to preserve her female organs and eliminate the male organs It was the decision made by most par Aren t we all queer Different Odd Peculiar Strange Freaky Weird ...

Double Exposure
  • 13 March 2017
  • Hardcover
  • 304 pages
  • 1629146064
  • Bridget Birdsall
  • Double Exposure