Boy2Girl

by Terence Blacker

Hardcover, 2005

Status

Missing

Call number

PZ7.B53225 Boy 2005

Genres

Collections

Dennis R. Neill Equality Center, Transgender

Publication

Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR) (2005), Edition: 1st, 304 pages

Description

After the death of his mother, thirteen-year-old Sam comes to live with his cousin and as a prank, he dresses up as a girl for school, but it soon gets out of hand.

User reviews

LibraryThing member karima29

Very quick and witty book. It's about a boy who's aunt in America dies and his cousin comes to England to stay with them. This cousin is rude and vulgar, bossy and too macho. He nevertheless invites his cousin into his clique, but the cousin keeps gettingthem into trouble. So eventually he pisses

them off so bad, that they plan to get him back by kicking him out of the group and the only way he can get back in is if he starts at their new school pretending to be a girl. This way they see him being humiliated but they also see him being useful by spying on the girls for them.

That's like the first chapter or something. The rest of the book is how this plan backfires on them, with hilarious results.

I got this book for my brother for his birthday. He's a funny boy, my brother. So I thought he'd appreciate it. I always give the books I give him a quick squiz through to see if it's appropriate. And I was glad that with this one I did. Because it's a book for teens it was a quick read. It'd make a cool gift for boys who are in that 'cool' phase. It's full of pranks and humiliation, all part of the teenage experience.

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LibraryThing member kewpie

Even though the plot of this story is highly unrealistic, it is still somehow believable and almost charming. Sam Lopez, a rough urban American goes to live with his relatives in England. Because his cousin dares him, Sam shows up to school dressed up like a girl. Everyone believes the ruse and

sitcom style "crazy situations" ensue. (Think Three's Company) Sam gets caught. He discovers that he likes the attention he gets as a girl and every day he pretends, the harder it is for him to get out of it. Like I said, the story is almost completely implausable, but very enjoyable. It was one of the few books that caused me to laugh out loud several times as I read it. The only weak part of the book was that the British writer didn't capture American dialect very well at all. It seems that we Americans use incorrect grammar and swear a lot, but otherwise we speak very British English.

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LibraryThing member anderlawlor

Oy. Really? A pre-teen straight boy learns life lessons and has fun passing as a pre-teen girl, with no real danger, social repercussions, gender confusion? Why are so many YA books about gender written in the psychological-fantasy genre?

LibraryThing member AngelaRenea

A little strange, but I did like this book. It was a fun, easy read not particularly life changing or anything, but good for an easy read.

LibraryThing member HeatherLINC

This is such a great book with wonderful characters, especially Matt and his American cousin, Sam. With all the different voices and various perspectives on the same event, the story is a fairly easy read. The plot is fast-paced and extremely funny in parts and there are some interesting issues

about gender roles. Well worth the read.

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