Kelly thought George was amazing as Charlotte and wanted her to get the part. Udell would be impressed with George’s unwillingness to follow expectations. All the boys had to audition reading for Wilbur, no matter what they wanted. All the girls had to audition reading for Charlotte, no matter what they wanted. In “Acting Is Just Pretend,” George went to Kelly’s house and they rehearsed for the play. George did not have the nerve to tell Kelly it was more than just pretend to her. Kelly said it was cool that George wanted to defy gender norms in the play. After school, George told Kelly she wanted the role of Charlotte. Udell comforted George and let her go to the bathroom, but she hated having to use the boy’s bathroom. Jeff and Rick, two mean boys, started making fun of her. George was emotionally moved by the scene, and she started crying. Udell, read the chapter of Charlotte’s Web in which Charlotte dies.

In “Charlotte Dies,” George’s fourth grade teacher, Ms. After Scott left to go to a friend’s house, George took her magazines back to her closet, then fell onto her bed and wished she could be anyone else. George quickly hid her magazines and ran downstairs. Scott came home and banged on the bathroom door. She wished she could wear makeup and pink clothing and have long hair. She looked through the magazines and wished she could be a girl named Melissa who was friends with the girls in the magazines. Once she affirmed that she was alone, she took out the collection of teenage girl magazines she kept hidden in her closet and brought them into the bathroom. In the first chapter, “Secrets,” George went home after school and made sure neither her mother nor her brother, Scott, were in the house. The novel consistently refers to George with feminine pronouns. George is a ten-year-old “secret” girl who the world views and treats as a boy because of her biological body, which appears to be male. George is narrated by a third-person past narrator that focuses in on George, the ten-year-old protagonist of the novel. The following version of this book was used to create this study guide: Gino, Alex.

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