Pen Oliveira likes being a girl, just not the way her mother wants her to be. Pen's traditional Portugese parents don't accept that she wears "punk druggy" clothes or that she buzzed her hair or that she dates girls. But all of that is who Pen is. This conflict comes to a head at the same moment Pen decides her friends are not the best friends and she has to decide her own path. This book was part of the pile the English teachers got from a recent district purchase. I picked it up because I needed something to read during SSR in Mr. Sansbury's room. Then I grabbed my own copy and finished the job. I appreciate Pen's perspective in the book but the whole thing was a bit long winded and very high school. It's worth the read, but do it quickly.
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