Freeing Finch by Ginny Rorby - 9781250293725 We use cookies to give you the best possible experience.

Her goal is to write books that connect children to the natural world. Freeing Finch by Ginny Rorby, 9781250293725, available at Book Depository with free delivery worldwide. She now lives in Fort Bragg, California with several animal companions, including a parrot, cats, and a bat that visits her every winter and roosts in her bathroom. She holds an undergraduate degree in biology from the University of Miami and an MFA in Creative Writing from Florida International University. 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.Ībout author(s):GINNY RORBY is the author of many award-winning books for young readers, including Hurt Go Happy, Dolphin Sky, and How to Speak Dolphin. Ginny is the author 6 novels for Middle Grade and Young Adults readers: Freeing Finch, How to Speak Dolphin, Lost in the River of Grass, winner of the 2012 / 2013 Sunshine State Young Readers Award Hurt Go Happy, winner of the 2008 American Library Association’s Schneider Family Book Award. 2011) How to Speak Dolphin (Scholastic Press, 2017) Freeing Finch (Tom Doherty Associates, 2019). She now lives on the chilly coast of northern California. 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. Ginny Rorby is an American young adult novelist. Thankfully, she has Maddy, a neighbor and animal rescuer who accepts her for who she is. 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. Now she's stuck living with her stepfather and his new wife. When her father leaves and her mother passes away soon afterward, Finch can't help feeling abandoned.

From 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.