Girl mans up

By M-E Girard

Subjects: Identity, fiction, Identity (Philosophical concept), Lambda Literary Award Winner, Juvenile fiction, Children of immigrants, Social Themes, Sex role, fiction, Immigrants, fiction, Fiction, Homosexuality, fiction, New Experience, Lesbian teenagers, Children's fiction, Lambda Literary Awards, YOUNG ADULT FICTION, Friendship, LGBTQ gender identity, Portuguese, Gender identity, Ontario, fiction, LGBT, Friendship, fiction, Identity, LGBTQ young adult, Dating & Sex

Description: All Pen wants is to be the kind of girl she's always been. So why does everyone have a problem with it? They think the way she looks and acts means she's trying to be a boy that she should quit trying to be something she's not. If she dresses like a girl, and does what her folks want, it will show respect. If she takes orders and does what her friend Colby wants, it will show her loyalty. But respect and loyalty, Pen discovers, are empty words.