Quiet, Please: Dispatches from a Public Librarian Review

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Quiet, Please: Dispatches from a Public Librarian ReviewWhile Quiet, Please does an excellent job of describing the ins and outs of library life, the best part about it is that it provides an opportunity to just simply listen to the author's voice - his perspectives on what the library's relationship should be with the public, how the librarian should fulfill that responsibility, how libraries could improve. Heavy messages such as these could drag the reader down, but the author is one step ahead in thought by providing many incredibly funny anecdotes to lighten the book up and keep the reader engaged. It's the kind heart, the humanity, though, that permeates Quiet, Please and makes the book so worth reading.Quiet, Please: Dispatches from a Public Librarian Overview

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Luna ReviewThis is a story dealing with a topic not often dealt with in YA fiction - transgender teenagers. Regan is fifteen and her life is dominated by her older brother, Liam (Lia Marie, and later Luna, at night). She has drifted apart from friends her own age because of him, and in order to try and help him she has offered to let him use her room at night, to try on girls' clothes. The only thing she has that's *hers* is her babysitting job for a family she sees as perfect and normal, in sharp contrast to her own, with her drugged-up mother and domineering father.
Regan is a sympathetic character, a girl who tries so hard to be there for her brother when he needs her, but also someone who resents how she has to be everything for him, his sole confidant, and who alternates between feeling sorry for him and for wishing that he could just be normal. She also has her own dilemma, involving an infatuation with a boy at school. "Luna" is Regan's story as much as it is Liam's.
Liam/Luna's story is dealt with effectively as well, with flashbacks of their childhood showing early signs that he really did want to be in a girl's body. The separation of gender and sexuality is also made quite clear, and the idea of constructed gender roles is also dealt with (though not as much as I'd like to have seen it discussed - but the perfect amount for a YA novel). It is by no means a definitive transgendered-teen story but it shouldn't have to be, either - it's merely the story of one girl in a boy's body, trying to break free.
A worthwhile read that will hopefully challenge readers' ideas towards gender and sex while telling a compelling story.Luna Overview

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