Girlmode

A recently transitioned girl tries to figure out who she is–while trying to manage who everyone else wants her to be–in this funny, unexpected, and affecting new graphic novel from Eisner-nominated writer Magdalene Visaggio and artist Paulina Ganucheau.

The last thing Phoebe Zito wants is to be noticed. The newest kid at Sally Ride High School, newly arrived in Los Angeles, and newly transitioned, she’s just trying to blend in while she figures out exactly who she is. But with her mom checked out, her dad still adjusting to having a daughter, and no guidebook to how to be a girl, that isn’t going to be easy.

Enter Mackenize Ishikawa. She’s the girl that all girls want to be, and all boys want to be with–and, Mackenzie has decided, Phoebe’s new best friend. Mackenzie knows what it takes to survive and thrive as a girl in high school: No matter who Phoebe wants to be, or who she wants to date, she’s going to need someone having her back while she figures it all out.

Phoebe soon realizes what Mackenzie knows too well: Being true to yourself is going to mean breaking some hearts. But as Phoebe discovers what kind of girl she is–and what kind of girl everyone thinks she’s supposed to be–she worries one of those hearts is going to be her own.