Luna bloggy posty

                I recently finished the heart wrenching book Luna.  The protagonist is a 15 or 16 year old girl with two judgemental parents- and a transsexual brother. The girl, Regan struggles with school, boys, bullying, and protecting her brother, Liam. During the day he is a smart tall, thin senior in high school, smart, handsome, and has girls following him around like he's god.  But that's not what he wants. All he wants is to be a girl, and says he was born into the wrong body. Meanwhile, he dresses like a woman at night, and has named himself Luna. She wakes up Regan in the middle of the night to show her- as Regan is the only one who knows. Regan has always been there for her brother, but now she is struggling to work in school, and has caught the eye of the new kid, Chris, in her science class. In Luna by Julie Anne Peters, Regan goes through a tough year, as she helps her prother transition for good.
                 In Luna,  Regan has flashbacks about her brother as a little kid letting Luna out. He would but nail polish on, ask his mom for barbies makeup and hairbrushes for his birthday and Christmas. They never has any of it. The father was always making Liam look bad by making him try out for sports, and not letting him cook dinner instead of Regan when he was perfectly capable. In the middle of the book, Regan and Luna would slip out at 6 in the morning to go shopping at a mall. Liam's goal was to make no one question that he was a boy, and pretending he can't see people snickering. At the end of the book Liam meets a transsexual and goes to live with her inspired by her braveness. After he tells his family on his eighteenth birthday, his dad practically throws him out of the house, and his mom just couldn't deal with it. He goes to Seattle where he starts therapy and gets ready for his sex-reassignment surgery.
                  I think this book really shows that you should appreciate others for their differences, no matter if they're gay, lesbian, transsexual, it doesn't matter. The moral of the story is you should treat people the way you want to be treated, and accept and love others for their differences- not everyone has to be exactly like you.