Alex As Well by Alyssa Brugman is such a realistic look at how sometimes the people who should care for you the most can utterly and completely let you down. Alex is intersex. She doesn't quite know this when we're introduced to her life. What we do know is that until now she's been raised as a boy, but she knows that she's really a girl. She describes it in terms of there being two Alexes—one who is a boy and one who is a girl. Her parents want her to stay a boy. But she knows she's actually a girl. I don't think I've ever read a book about someone who is intersex or transsexual. I'm including both because although they are slightly different, I think in a lot of ways the book captures the experience of someone from both groups. While I haven't read any books about an intersex or trans person, I spend a lot of time on the internet, and on a website that generally supports intersex and trans people. I support intersex and transsexual p...