If I Was Your Girl

Stonewall Book Award Winner
Walter Dean Myers Honor Book for Outstanding Children's Literature
A Publishers Weekly Best Book of the Year
A Kirkus Reviews Best Book of the Year
A Zoella Book Club Selection
A Goodreads Choice Award Finalist
A Bustle Best YA Book of the Year
IndieNext Top 10 List
One of Flavorwire's 50 Books Every Modern Teenager Should Read

This new novel for teens breaks new ground...powerful. --O Magazine

A beautifully rendered YA novel . . . the first written by a transgender woman about the transgender teen experience. --San Francisco Chronicle

A vivid, compassionate portrait of a teen finding her place. --The Washington Post

An illuminating debut guided by hope and overwhelming kindness." --Publishers Weekly, starred review

"A necessary, universal story about feeling different and enduring prejudices...full of love, hope, and truth." --Kirkus, starred review

This is everything a coming-of-age novel should be--honest, complicated, and meaningful. Transcends the typical 'issue' novel to be a beautiful tale in its own right. --School Library Journal, SLJ Popular Pick

Amanda's story is neither overly sentimental nor didactic. A thoughtful, truthful, and much needed coming-of-age tale. --Horn Book Review

Russo, a trans woman, writes with authority and empathy, giving readers not only an intellectual but also an emotional understanding of Amanda and her compelling story. Never didactic, this debut is a valuable contribution to the slender but growing body of literature of trans teens. --ALA Booklist

"Beautiful, smart, and so urgently needed, If I Was Your Girl should be required reading for every teen--scratch that, every person--in America. This book is exactly what YA is for: to break ground, to break hearts, to teach us empathy, to find the universal in the specific. I loved every word. You will too." --Julie Buxbaum, New York Times bestselling author of Tell Me Three Things

Poignant and rare. If I Was Your Girl is the type of book you read and want to immediately share, because it's too important to keep to yourself. --Julie Murphy, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Dumplin'

If I Was Your Girl is important and necessary and brave, and deeply, electrically inspiring. Read this wonderful book. Just read it. --Jennifer Niven, New York Times bestselling author of All the Bright Places

"If I Was Your Girl will change minds and open hearts." --Nina Lacour, critically acclaimed author of Everything Leads to You

If I Was Your Girl is real and raw and layered and wonderful. --Alex Gino, Stonewall Award-winning author of George

If there's any justice in the world, we're all witnessing a YA powerhouse in the making. --Forever YA

Pure magic. --Book Riot