Ami Polonsky

What if who you are on the outside doesn't match who you are on the inside? Grayson Sender has been holding onto a secret for what seems like forever: "He" is a girl on the inside, stuck in the wrong gender's body. The weight of this secret is crushing, but sharing it would mean facing ridicule...

A heartbreaking, heart-mending novel of love, grief, friendship, and community. March 1987. The FDA has just approved AZT as the first drug to treat AIDS. But it's too late for Iris’s dad. He’s dying, confined to a hospital bed in the apartment he shares with his boyfriend, J.R. (who Iris...

From the author of the critically acclaimed Gracefully Grayson comes a thoughtful and sensitive middle-grade novel about nonbinary identity and first love, Ami Polonsky's Spin with Me. In this elegant dual narrative, Essie is a 13-year-old girl feeling glum about starting a new school after her...

In this life-affirming novel of trauma and recovery, a girl searches for a path forward after being forced to confront the reality of gun violence, for fans of Dusti Bowling and Jasmine Warga. Stevie Jane Cohen-Kaplan’s sheltered suburban life is shattered by a mass shooting at a festival in...

Grayson tiene doce años y cuando está sola en casa, brilla inmersa en sueños de vestidos vaporosos y glitter. Pero en la escuela la historia es diferente y camina por las sombras, decidida a pasar desapercibida para que nadie descubra el secreto que guarda desde hace mucho tiempo: «él» es...