"Chiba-san won't make up with Takatsuki-San, and no one can get over his or her crush. Takatsuki-san envies Chizuru-san's boldness for showing up to school in a boy's uniform, and begrudgingly shops for a bra. Nitori-kun and Mako (who also identifies as a girl) decide to record their voices to preserve them before they change. And: what's up with the newbie teacher? There's another gender-bending play in the works?!"--Back cover.
year: 2011, 2012, 2013
call number/section: 1000, 741.5
subjects: middle school students, juvenile fiction, gender identity, fiction, coming of age, cartoons and comics, bildungsromans, manga, comic books, strips, etc, graphic novels, gender role, bildungsromans, graphic novels, comic books, strips, etc, high school students, graphic novels, amateur theater
Editions
Shimura, Takako
Distributed in the U.S. by W.W. Norton (2011)
Schools: 1
Shimura, Takako
Fantagraphics (2012)
The secret that students Shuichi and Yoshino are transgendered is exposed, and their mentor Yuki reveals the hard reality of being transgendered.
Schools: 1
Shimura, Takako
After their play "The Rose of Versailles" is a success, the class decides to produce "Romeo and Juliet, " but when Chiba-san discovers that Nitori-kun wants Takatsuki to play Romeo to his Juliet, she forces Nitori-kun to face the nature of his feelings for Takatsuki-san.
Schools: 0
Shimura, Takako
Fantagraphics Books (2013)
"Chiba-san won't make up with Takatsuki-San, and no one can get over his or her crush. Takatsuki-san envies Chizuru-san's boldness for showing up to school in a boy's uniform, and begrudgingly shops for a bra. Nitori-kun and Mako (who also identifies as a girl) decide to record their voices to preserve them before they change. And: what's up with the newbie teacher? There's another gender-bending play in the works?!"--Back cover.
Schools: 2
Shimura, Takako
Eighth grade rolls around for Doi, Nitori-kun, Yuki-san, Tatatsuki-san, and Chiba-san, as the young girls and boys continue to wrestle with questions of gender identity and who has crushes on who, and why.
Schools: 1
Shimura, Takako
After the success of their gender-bending rendition of "Romeo and Juliet," Nitori-kun, the boy who wants to be a girl, and Chiba-san, the girl who is crushing on him, are scouted by a theater company, leaving Takatsuki-san, the girl who wants to be a boy, jealous, as she knows Nitori is crushing on her.
Schools: 1
Shimura, Takako
Nitori, the boy who wants to be a girl, and Chiba, the girl who is crushing on him, write an adaptation of "Romeo and Juliet," with Chiba hoping to play Romeo with Nitori as Juliet--but Nitori would rather have Takatsuki, the girl who wants to be a boy, in the role of Romeo.
Schools: 1