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Meredith Russos award-winning, big-hearted novel If I Was Your Girl is about being seen for who you really are, with a love story you cant help but root for!. Amanda Hardy is the new girl in school. Like anyone else, all she wants is to make friends and fit in. But Amanda is keeping a secret, and shes determined not to get too close to anyone.. But when she meets sweet, easygoing Grant, Amanda cant help but start to let him into her life. As they spend more time together, she realizes just how much she is losing by guarding her heart. She finds herself yearning to share with Grant everything about herself, including her past. But Amandas terrified that once she tells him the truth, he wont be able to see past it. . Because the secret that Amandas been keeping? Its that at her old school, she used to be Andrew. Will the truth cost Amanda her new life, and her new love?Stonewall Book Award WinnerWalter Dean Myers Honor Book for Outstanding Childrens LiteratureA Publishers Weekly Best Book of the YearA Kirkus Reviews Best Book of the YearA Goodreads Choice Award Finalist A Zoella Book Club SelectionA Bustle Best YA Book of the YearIndieNext Top 10One of Flavorwires 50 Books Every Modern Teenager Should Read
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MEREDITH RUSSO lives in Brooklyn with her cat Shadow and probably more books than is responsible for a New York apartment. When she isn't upsetting Yankees by smiling and making eye contact on the 3 train she spends her time lifting weights, playing fighting games, blowing up the mic at karaoke, glancing anxiously at her TBR pile, and, of course, working on her next book. Meredith's debut novel, If I Was Your Girl, released in 2016 to rave reviews and multiple awards. Her second novel, Birthday, came out in 2019. Both novels explore themes of gender identity, sexuality, poverty, trauma, and mental illness in Southern Appalachia, though they're lighter and way less bummer-y than that list might imply. Her essays and shorter fiction can be found in The New York Times, Elle, Meet Cute, (Don't) Call Me Crazy, Radical Hope: Letters of Love and Resistance in Dangerous Times, and Out Now: Queer We Go Again.