Really liked the Audiobook. It felt like story time, and the narrator was playful, which was exactly what this book needed.

I kinda don't like how the book ends. I like that Melissa finally got to be herself, but throughout the book there's lots of turmoil amongst the adults and hiding going on... if felt like the story ended in a fantasy just before the true ending. Like "for today only you get to be yourself"... and then what? Does she continue to be Melissa from then on? Or does she go back to pretending to be George? 

I guess an ultimate good ending is too much to ask, because reality isn't always good. Fortunately for the reader, we could see that her mother was beginning to understand. The brother was chill. The dad even called it. So many others were understanding too. It kinda seems implausible that things would've turned out the way they did without her best friend though.

This is an ally story as much as a children's identity story. Both stories are important, for children and adults who may not understand the child's perspective. Children that age are bound to be learning about themselves and starting to have outside influences trying to pigeon hole them into labels that they don't quiet understand or agree with.