While Maddy’s in hospital Finch starts to seriously look for her own father. Then the day comes that Finch needs to help Maddy, and she’s brave enough to do it. As a family friend but not a relative, she helps Finch care for wild animals that get hurt or trapped somehow. She’s eleven, but not many people can just let her be herself. While kids are small they can all wear t-shirt and shorts and nobody questions, but in school Finch wants to be accepted as a girl, and the other kids are starting to query her identity. Finch is a girl, but her dad saw her born looking like a boy, and can’t accept that Finch never felt like a boy. Morgan, who gets nicknamed Finch at the start, is similarly different and looking to be accepted in class, and everywhere else in the neighbourhood. Have you seen the short film, ‘The Boy With Green Hair’? I think we all saw this great American parable growing up. FREEING FINCH is a novel for every age group from middle grade upwards. Mom passed away and now there’s just stepfather Stan and his new wife Cindee, and Maddy, the senior lady whose house is in the woods. "A lonely kid, a dog, and a search for identity" Freeing Finch
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