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|title=The Art of Being Normal
|sort=Art of Being Normal, The
|publisher=David Fickling Books
|date=January 2015
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1910200328</amazonuk>
|amazonus=<amazonus>1910200328</amazonus>
|website=http://lisawilliamsonauthor.com
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|summary=Stunning dual narrative story is hugely powerful, and explores gender identity issues with wonderful characters and a hopeful ending.
|cover=1910200328
|aznuk=1910200328
|aznus=1910200328
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'''Longlisted for the Branford Boase Award 2016'''
 
'''Shortlisted for the Waterstones Children's Book Prize 2016: Older Fiction'''
Fourteen-year-old David has always known that he is a transgender girl. (Note: As David uses male pronouns in his internal dialogue I have continued to do so in my review.) However David has chosen a new girl's name and collects feminine clothes to express that inner self. This is a secret kept from everyone except his best friends Essie and Felix. When Leo Denton, who also has a secret, moves to David's school Eden Park from the rougher Cloverdale, the worlds of the two collide.
An outstanding read which is up there with [[The Last Leaves Falling by Sarah Benwell]] as the best contemporary I've read for a long, long time, as well as being a hugely important book which I'd love everybody to read.
As mentioned above, my other favourite contemporary of the coming year is [[The Last Leaves Falling by Sarah Benwell]]. If you want to read more books with wonderful portrayals of LGBT+ characters, I'd highly recommend [[Lies We Tell Ourselves by Robin Talley]] and [[Two Boys Kissing by David Levithan]]. [[Othergirl by Nicole Burstein]] was also longlisted for the Branford Boase Award 2016.
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