You Don't Know Everything, Jilly P! (Scholastic Gold)

By: Alex Gino

Narrated by: Nora Hunter, Blythe Auffarth, Cherise Boothe, Em Eldridge, Alex Gino, Maxwell Glick, Rachel Jacobs, Sisi Aisha Johnson, Katharine Lee McEwan, Taylor Meskimen, Marc Samuel, Miebaka Yohannes

Alex Gino, the Lambda Literary Award-winning author of Melissa, is back with another sensitive tale based on increasingly relevant social justice issues.

Jilly thinks she's figured out how life works. But when her sister, Emma, is born deaf, she realizes how much she still has to learn. The world is going to treat Jilly, who is white and hearing, differently from Emma, just as it will treat them both differently from their Black cousins.

A big fantasy reader, Jilly makes a connection online with another fantasy fan, Derek, who is a Deaf, Black ASL user. She goes to Derek for help with Emma but doesn't always know the best way or time to ask for it.

As she and Derek meet in person, have some really fun conversations, and become friends, Jilly makes some mistakes... but comes to understand that it's up to her, not Derek to figure out how to do better next time - especially when she wants to be there for Derek the most. Within a world where kids like Derek and Emma aren't assured the same freedom or safety as kids like Jilly, Jilly is starting to learn all the things she doesn't know - and by doing that, she's also working to discover how to support her family and her friends. With You Don't Know Everything, Jilly P!, award-winning author Alex Gino uses their trademark humor, heart, and humanity to show readers how being open to difference can make you a better person, and how being open to change can make you change in the best possible ways.

©2018 Alex Gino (P)2018 Scholastic Inc.

Love this book but it’s more suitable for older readers

I love this book, I love how it teaches you about how death black and deaf and black people live while still giving a good story. This is a great learning experience even for adults, I think they would get a lot out of this. This will teach you about some of the hard times that people go through. I also like how they added a full cast

More Truth for the Youth by Alex Gino

This book is AMAZING! It starts out slower than Alex Gino's other books, but stick with it and you WON'T be disappointed! This as with their other popular book Melissa is one of the few books I've read that actually brought me to tears. Keep on writing Alex, and I'll keep on buying! I've already bought numerous copies of your books to share with the youth in my Little Free Library and this book will be no exception...

Surprising

Enjoyed story and messages, despite the title, which I didn’t like. Well written and read!