Bibliograph

Alice Austen lived here, Alex Gino

Type

Label

Alice Austen lived here, Alex Gino

Language

eng

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

no index present

Intended audience

Ages 9-12, Scholastic PressGrades 4-6, Scholastic Press

Literary Form

fiction

Main title

Alice Austen lived here

Responsibility statement

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 honouring 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

Target audience

juvenile

Classification