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Top 10 QuickPicks for Reluctant Young Readers Riley must make a choice: walk away from what the blog has created-a lifeline, new friends, a cause to believe in-or stand up, come out, and risk everything.ĭOWNLOAD DISCUSSION GUIDE But just as Riley’s starting to settle in at school-even developing feelings for a mysterious outcast-the blog goes viral, and an unnamed commenter discovers Riley’s real identity, threatening exposure. On the advice of a therapist, Riley starts an anonymous blog to vent those pent-up feelings and tell the truth of what it’s REALLY like to be a gender-fluid teenager. And between starting a new school and having a congressman father running for reelection in uber-conservative Orange County, the pressure-media and otherwise-is building up in Riley’s so-called “normal” life.

Some days Riley identifies as a boy, and others as a girl. Riley Cavanaugh is many things: Punk rock. The first thing you’re going to want to know about me is: Am I a boy, or am I a girl?

The symptoms of being human