“The writing shines when Rorby focuses on what is her true passion: Sukari and the fate of chimpanzees like her. 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.When her father leaves and her mother passes away soon afterward, Finch can’t help feeling abandoned. It is a thought-provoking addition for school and public library collections.” - VOYA “This unusual and emotional story will intrigue animal lovers and those looking for a gripping family drama. Rorby successfully gets to the core of a moving animal-human relationship.”- KLIATT, starred review 4Q, 3P, M, J “This has the potential to be a classic animal story with wide appeal. On a field trip to the Everglades, Sarah seizes the chance to get away by sneaking off on an airboat ride through the saw-grass marsh with the guide's 15-year-old son, Andy.
Finch’s story is Higher Power of Lucky meets Shiloh.”- Tim Capehart, children’s librarian and head of youth services at Dayton Metro Library, author of S hadowangel and Summer Stranger than Fiction, and two-time Newbery Medal selection committee member by Ginny Rorby Thirteen-year-old Sarah's new classmates at Glades Academy don't welcome hershe's there on scholarship, and her mother works in the school cafeteria. Finch discovers, in her struggle to find the support she needs after her loving mother dies, that forcing the connections we think we need can make us miss the special ones we already have. “No matter their gender identity, young readers will identify with Finch’s struggle to find the relationships she needs to heal her grief and to be who she knows she is in a sometimes scary world.
“Note to readers: get tissues ready-there couldn’t have been more tears!”- Booklist Reader
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