num_pages: 361
description: Daras lived a sheltered life with her single mom Mellie. Now at eighteen shes dreaming of more. When Dara digs up her never-before-seen birth certificate her world implodes. Why are two strangers listed as her parents? Dara confronts her mother and is stunned by what she learns: Mellie is transgender. The unfamiliar name listed under father? Thats Mellie. She transitioned when Dara was a baby shortly after Daras birth mother died.But Dara still has more questions than answers. Reeling she sets off on a road trip with her best guy friend Sam. She's determined to find the extended family shes never met. What she discoversand what her mother reveals piece by piece over emailswill challenge and change Dara more than she can imagine. From rising star Jessica Verdi this is a gorgeous timely and essential novel about the importance of being our true selves.
language: English
title: And She Was
publisher: Scholastic