But even this relationship is difficult as Aly has a crush on Liam, wanting him to grow into the ' man of her dreams'. Her ' living nightmare' of a secret has distanced Regan from school peers and even from old friends, aside from Liam's childhood friend Aly. The mother is incessantly busy with her wedding planning business.
The father seems somewhat of a loser, an embarrassment to his teen kids - he tells bad jokes and tries to push Liam into trying out for macho team sports. Their parents are oblivious and distant from the children, who oddly share a basement apartment. Her genius brother Liam is really a girl, who used to call herself Lia Marie and has now decided that she is ' Luna', a ' girl who can only be seen by moonlight'.
I think this book exceptionally demonstrates acceptance, love, and the real meaning of family.L una is told from the point of view of thirteen-year-old Regan, whose life has long been burdened by a painful secret. The characters in this book are truly amazing, and I couldn’t pick just one to demonstrate a character who overcame peer pressure for what they believed in. Through a failed suicide attempt, difficult relationships with her/his friends and parents(who refused to support him), and a thin line of desperation between Luna and Reagan, Luna and Luke, her life and his identity, Luke finally gets the courage to be Luna, and leave those who didn’t support them. That’s not to say that Reagan was the heroine of the story. Nonetheless, Reagan stood by Luna until the end. Luna lost Reagan her babysitting job, because she’d tried on the lingerie of Reagan’s client. It was also hard for Reagan to make friends, because they would make fun of Luna. It was hard for Reagan to go out on dates with guys she liked, lest her brother flirt with them or scare them off. It wasn’t always easy for Reagan, what with her brother being transgender. That is, her brother Luke, who is also her sister, Luna. In the book, Luna by Julie Anne Peters the main character, Reagan, faces challenges to fight for what she believes in.
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