Pen fears rejection, but she also worries about what her parents will think if they find out she is dating a girl. Blake plans to break up with him, and Pen wonders if she should ask her out. Popular, Blake dates a boy who plays in a rock band. Pen develops a crush on a classmate, Blake. Pen feels better knowing that she has another ally. If she needs help with clothes or her hair, she should tell him rather than steal his stuff. He tells her to stop worrying about what their parents think because she can’t change who she is. Catching her stealing his hair clippers, Johnny asks her to talk to him about her gender identity. In the meantime, Pen strengthens her relationship with her brother, Johnny. Peter’s who accepts her fluid gender identity and homosexuality. Pen doesn’t approve of his ways, but he is the only student at St. Colby, a womanizer, loves using girls and discarding them. Her best friend is Colby, a straight teenage boy. Her parents are traditional and conservative, and their Portuguese heritage is very important to them. Sixteen-year-old Pen lives in Ontario, Canada, with her Portuguese parents and Johnny, her older brother. The protagonist, Penelope Oliveira, hates being called Penelope and so everyone calls her “Pen” for short. Girl Mans Up is her first young adult novel. In 20, she served as a fellow at the Lambda Writers Retreat for Emerging LGBT Voices. Girard primarily writes queer fiction and female-centered books. The book won the 2017 Lambda Literary Award for LGBT Children’s/Young Adult Literature, and it was nominated for the 2017 William C.
Girl Mans Up (2016), a young adult LGBT contemporary novel by M-E Girard, follows a protagonist grappling with gender identity issues, and what it means to be a boy, a girl, or genderqueer.
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