If I Was Your Girl
Written by Meredith Russo
Narrated by Samia Mounts
4.5/5
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About this audiobook
Meredith Russo's award-winning, big-hearted novel If I Was Your Girl is about being seen for who you really are, with a love story you can't help but root for!
Amanda Hardy is the new girl in school. Like anyone else, all she wants is to make friends and fit in. But Amanda is keeping a secret, and she’s determined not to get too close to anyone.
But when she meets sweet, easygoing Grant, Amanda can’t help but start to let him into her life. As they spend more time together, she realizes just how much she is losing by guarding her heart. She finds herself yearning to share with Grant everything about herself, including her past. But Amanda’s terrified that once she tells him the truth, he won't be able to see past it.
Because the secret that Amanda’s been keeping? It's that at her old school, she used to be Andrew. Will the truth cost Amanda her new life, and her new love?
Stonewall Book Award Winner
Walter Dean Myers Honor Book for Outstanding Children's Literature
iBooks YA Novel of the Year
A Publishers Weekly Best Book of the Year
A Kirkus Reviews Best Book of the Year
A Goodreads Choice Award Finalist
A Zoella Book Club Selection
A Bustle Best YA Book of the Year
IndieNext Top 10
One of Flavorwire’s 50 Books Every Modern Teenager Should Read
Meredith Russo
MEREDITH RUSSO was born, raised, and lives in Tennessee. She started living as her true self in late 2013 and never looked back. If I Was Your Girl was partially inspired by her experiences as a trans woman. Like Amanda, Meredith is a gigantic nerd who spends a lot of her time obsessing over video games and Star Wars.
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Reviews for If I Was Your Girl
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- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5I enjoyed the novel, but I'm glad the author acknowledged many trans people don't have as supportive a family as Amanda has.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5This book was amazing on so many levels. I never really truly had a knowledge of what it was for trans people. And this book — knowing it’s written by a trans woman was an opportunity to learn with full respect and have the right answers.
The writing was amazing, the characters are so sweet and easy to get attached to. I love how close to reality it still was and talked about how I’m danger trans people are in our society. I was shocked about the outcome of some characters! I really didn’t see it coming until the very last minute.
And of course, the ending was amazing and so far from cliché and I love this! I am so picky on endings (which is tiring sometimes) but every now and then, I’ll read a book like If I Was Your Girl and be mesmerized and speechless by the ending so much that is was firing perfectly and just amazingly done.
I will definitely recommend this book! - Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5I really loved this book, the only part I didn't like was (SPOILER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!) who was chosen to out her. I have very mixed feelings as a bi person.
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