The Day Joanie Frankenhauser Became a Boy by Francess Lantz
Who would like this book? Anybody prepared to face slightly unrealistic gender biases and extraordinarily realistic characters.
Why? This book is about this girl, Joan, who goes to a new school. She hangs out with boys as friends and plays rough sports. At the new school, there is a typo on the attendance sheet, stating her name as John, so she decides to reinvent herself and discovers that being a boy might not be what she wants. By the way, her mom was pretty persistent that she act more like a girl. Seriously, that’s just biased.
The details: 151 p. 2005 Submitted by Zoe