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You Don't Know Everything, Jilly P! (Scholastic Gold) parent’s guide: what’s inside
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This is a thoughtfully written middle-grade novel about a hearing girl learning to support her deaf sister and building friendship across difference. The story centers on social justice themes—race, disability, and allyship—with warmth and humor rather than preaching. Jilly makes mistakes and learns from them, modeling how to listen, ask for help, and grow. The book is affirming of Deaf culture and LGBTQ+ identities without those themes being central to the plot.
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Alex Gino, the Lambda Literary Award-winning author of Melissa, is back with another sensitive tale based on increasingly relevant social justice issues. Jilly thinks she's figured out how life works. But when her sister, Emma, is born deaf, she realizes how much she still has to learn. The world is going to treat Jill... Alex Gino, the Lambda Literary Award-winning author of Melissa, is back with another sensitive tale based on increasingly relevant social justice issues. Jilly thinks she's figured out how life works. But when her sister, Emma, is born deaf, she realizes how much she still has to learn. The world is going to treat Jilly, who is white and hearing, differently from Emma, just as it will treat them both differently from their Black cousins. A big fantasy reader, Jilly makes a connection online with another fantasy fan, Derek, who is a Deaf, Black ASL user. She goes to Derek for help with Emma but doesn't always know the best way or time to ask for it. As she and Derek meet in person, have some really fun conversations, and become friends, Jilly makes some mistakes . . . but comes to understand that it's up to her, not Derek to figure out how to do better next time--especially when she wants to be there for Derek the most. Within a world where kids like Derek and Emma aren't assured the same freedom or safety as kids like Jilly, Jilly is starting to learn all the things she doesn't know--and by doing that, she's also working to discover how to support her family and her friends. With You Don’t Know Everything, Jilly P!, award-winning author Alex Gino uses their trademark humor, heart, and humanity to show readers how being open to difference can make you a better person, and how being open to change can make you change in the best possible ways.
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- Juvenile Fiction
- LGBTQ
- Young Adult
- Fantasy
- Friendship
- Fiction
- Deaf
- Disabilities
- Disabled persons
- Children's fiction
- Fantasy fiction
- Readers
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ISBN 9780545956260 · Scholastic Inc.