Ginny Rorby
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When her father leaves and her mother passes away soon afterward, Finch can℗℗t help feeling abandoned. Now she℗℗s stuck living with her stepfather and his new wife. 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.
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Since her mother died, twelve-year-old Lily has struggled to care for her severely autistic half-brother, Adam, in their Miami home, but she is frustrated and angry because her oncologist step-father, Don, expects her to devote her time to Adam, and is unwilling to admit that Adam needs professional help--but when Adam bonds with a young dolphin with cancer Lily is confronted with another dilemma: her family or the dolphin's freedom.
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Thirteen-year-old Joey Willis is used to being left out of conversations. Though she's been deaf since the age of six, Joey's mother has never allowed her to learn sign language. She strains to read the lips of those around her, but often fails. Everything changes when Joey meets Dr. Charles Mansell and his baby chimpanzee, Sukari. Her new friends use sign language to communicate, and Joey secretly begins learning to sign. Spending time with Charlie...