Ollie in between
Callans, Jess2025
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As endearing as it is humorous, this debut middle grade novel by Jess Callans is a tender, queer coming of age story about the courage it takes to find your own voice and choosing to just be. Puberty, AKA the ultimate biological predator, is driving a wedge between soon-to-be 13 year old Ollie Thompson and their lifelong friends. Too much of a girl for their neighborhood hockey team, but not girly enough for their boy-crazed BFF, Ollie doesn't know where they fit. And their usual ability to camouflage? Woefully disrupted. When a school project asks them to write an essay on what it means to be a woman (if anyone's got an answer, that'd be great), and one of their new friends is the target of bullying, Ollie is caught between the safety of fleeing from their own differences or confronting the risks of fighting to take their own path forward.
Main title:
Ollie in between / Jess Callans.
Author:
Callans, Jess, author
Work:
Edition:
First edition.
Imprint:
New York : Feiwel and Friends, 2025.©2025
Collation:
244 pages ; 22 cm
Notes:
"You can grow your own way" -- dust jacket.
Audience:
Ages 10-14.
ISBN:
9781250331342 (hardback)
Dewey class:
813.6
LC class:
PZ7.1.C3164
Language:
English
Subject:
BRN:
497456