As she earns the dog's trust, Finch realizes she must also learn to trust the people in her life-even if they are the last people she expected to love her and help her to be true to herself. Finch helps Maddy care for a menagerie of lost and lonely creatures, including a scared, stray dog who needs a family and home as much as she does. Thankfully, she has Maddy, a neighbor and animal rescuer who accepts her for who she is. in creative writing from Florida International University. She studied biology at the University of Miami and went on to receive an M.F.A. She was raised in Winter Park, Florida and lived in Miami during her career as a Pan American flight attendant. They're mostly nice, but they don't believe the one true thing Finch knows about herself: that she's a girl, even though she was born in a boy's body. Ginny Rorby (born 9 August 1944) is an American young adult novelist. Now she's stuck living with her stepfather and his new wife. Adventure and Real Life Stories | Milestones and Issuesįrom Ginny Rorby, the author of Hurt Go Happy, winner of ALA's Schneider Family Book Award, comes Freeing Finch, the inspiring story of a transgender girl and a stray dog who overcome adversity to find love, home, and a place to belong.When her father leaves and her mother passes away soon afterward, Finch can't help feeling abandoned.
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