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Mar 13, 2017KyCCL rated this title 5 out of 5 stars
Frenemies, love, teen pregnancy, teenage angst - the hardships, challenges, and joys of young adulthood are all here in this book, and we see them through the eyes of main character Pen, a teenager who doesn't fit the usual boy/girl stereotype. It is great to see an increasing number of books with trans teens as characters, but this isn't a story about a 'young trans boy': Pen doesn't want to be a boy - she just wants to look like one, and that confuses people. As she and her friends navigate the social world of school and town, she starts to question who her real friends are, how her family stick together, and what she needs to do to man up and do the right thing in a difficult situation. I wish this book had been written when I was a teenager!