Alice Austen lived here
Title
:
Alice Austen lived here
Personal Author EPSB
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Alex, Gino
Summary
:
Middle school student Sam is comfortable with their nonbinary identity, and their family has accepted it too (as long as they do their homework and chores), so when their history teacher assigns as a project coming up with a proposal for the new statue honoring a historical Staten Islander (there is a contest involved) they and their friend TJ decide to focus on Alice Austen, a lesbian photographer, whose house on Staten Island is a museum--but they have to overcome the presumption on the part of their teacher that only straight males are eligible.
Year Published
:
2022
Physical Description
:
162 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 22 cm
Personal Subject
:
Austen, Alice, 1866-1952-Fiction.
Subject
:
Gender-nonconforming people -- Fiction.
Sexual minorities -- Fiction.
Monuments -- Fiction.
Contests -- Fiction.
Middle schools -- Fiction.
Gender identity -- Fiction.
Schools -- Fiction.
Staten Island (New York, N.Y.) -- History -- Fiction.
Geographic Term
:
Staten Island (New York, N.Y.) -- History -- Fiction.
Genre
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Children's stories.
Gay fiction.
School fiction.
Novels.
Summary
:
Middle school student Sam is comfortable with their nonbinary identity, and their family has accepted it too (as long as they do their homework and chores), so when their history teacher assigns as a project coming up with a proposal for the new statue honoring a historical Staten Islander (there is a contest involved) they and their friend TJ decide to focus on Alice Austen, a lesbian photographer, whose house on Staten Island is a museum--but they have to overcome the presumption on the part of their teacher that only straight males are eligible.
ISBN
:
9781338733891
9780702316166
Publisher
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New York : Scholastic Press, 2022.
©2022
| Library | Call Number | Type | Item Barcode | Status |
|---|
| D.S. MacKenzie | F GIN | Book | 30522000378429 | Realistic Fiction |