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The Pants Project by Cat Clarke5/29/2023 Liv’s two moms add further dimension to a tale that unabashedly affirms the importance of accepting and celebrating differences. His coming-out to friend Jacob is realistically brief and an enormous relief. Along the way, he contends with a mean-spirited bully and the loss of a former friend even as he makes new, more loyal friends and wrestles with his own shortcomings. He-still “she” to others-works to convince the school’s new principal that students should have some choice in clothing, moving from an unsuccessful conversation to an unpromising petition to a brilliantly orchestrated media event. Readers learn that, over the years, Liv has become increasingly less tolerant of being assigned female pronouns and the name “Olivia.” Being required to wear a skirt daily at middle school is the last straw. It must be part of their job description.” Throughout, Liv’s voice is convincing and a pleasure to read. In a few months, Liv effects a major change in his new middle school’s antiquated dress code while simultaneously acquiring the courage to come out as transgender.įrom the start, readers are drawn into the story by 11-year-old Liv’s believable, humor-tinged narration: “Little brothers can always be counted on to reach peak levels of annoying at exactly the wrong moment.
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