Girl mans up /
By: Girard, M-E [author.].
Publisher: New York: HarperTeen, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, 2018Edition: First paperback edition.Description: 373, 14 pages ; 21 cm.Content type: text | text Media type: unmediated | unmediated Carrier type: volume | volumeISBN: 9780062404183; 9780062404183:; 0062404180.Subject(s): Gender identity -- Juvenile fiction | Identity (Philosophical concept) | FriendshipDDC classification: 808.899282 Summary: "In Ontario, Pen is a sixteen-year-old girl who looks like a boy. She's fine with it, but everyone else is uncomfortable--especially her Portuguese immigrant parents and her manipulative neighbor who doesn't want her to find a group of real friends"--Summary: 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.| Item type | Current library | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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ATU Sligo Yeats Library Main Lending Collection | 808.899282 GIR (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 0081242 |
Girl Mans Up bonus materials (pages 1-14) ; fan art (two unnumbered pages).
"In Ontario, Pen is a sixteen-year-old girl who looks like a boy. She's fine with it, but everyone else is uncomfortable--especially her Portuguese immigrant parents and her manipulative neighbor who doesn't want her to find a group of real friends"--
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.