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* CoaxThemOutOfTheCloset: Kate's parents have been at this for a while, especially Kate's mother, though they are under the impression that their child is a closeted gay boy. [[spoiler: Once their trans daughter ''does'' come out to them, they try to the best of their abilities to understand and make it clear that [[GoodParents under no circumstances will they ever love her any less]].]]
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* HalfIdenticalTwins: [[spoiler: An interesting case here: Amber and Leo were born a set of identical twin girls, but Leo (born Megan) never identified as such.]]
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* HalfIdenticalTwins: [[spoiler: An interesting case here: Amber and Leo were born a set of identical twin girls, but Leo (born (originally christened Megan) never identified as such.]]
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* {{Hypocrite}}: Lexi Taylor calls Kate "Freakshow" on the regular, but gets offended the one time she retaliates with a tame [[GoshDangItToHeck "Bubble Brain"]].
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* {{Hypocrite}}: Lexi Taylor calls Kate "Freakshow" on the regular, but gets offended the one time she retaliates with a tame [[GoshDangItToHeck [[BigStupidDoodooHead "Bubble Brain"]].
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* AmazinglyEmbarrassingParents: Kate and her little sister Livvy both view their parents as this.
* AngerBornOfWorry: [[spoiler: Aunt Kerry gives Leo a slap and furiously chews him out when he comes home after two days.]]
* AnnoyingYoungerSibling: Tia is viewed as this by Leo most of the time, but he loves her very much.
* AngerBornOfWorry: [[spoiler: Aunt Kerry gives Leo a slap and furiously chews him out when he comes home after two days.]]
* AnnoyingYoungerSibling: Tia is viewed as this by Leo most of the time, but he loves her very much.
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* AmazinglyEmbarrassingParents: Kate and her little sister Livvy both view see their parents as this.
* AngerBornOfWorry: [[spoiler: Aunt Kerry gives Leo a slap and furiously chews him out when he comes home after having been missing for two days.]]
* AnnoyingYoungerSibling: Tia isviewed seen as this by Leo most of the time, but he loves her very much.
* AngerBornOfWorry: [[spoiler: Aunt Kerry gives Leo a slap and furiously chews him out when he comes home after having been missing for two days.]]
* AnnoyingYoungerSibling: Tia is
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* AwLookTheyReallyDoLoveEachOther: After sniping at each other for most of the book, Kate and Livvy have a very sweet moment [[spoiler: at the dance]] where Kate comforts her little sister after she has a fight with her best friend.
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* AwLookTheyReallyDoLoveEachOther: After sniping at each other for most of the book, Kate and Livvy have a very sweet moment [[spoiler: at the dance]] dance]], where Kate comforts her little sister after she has a fight with her best friend.
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* BirthdayHater: Kate. Each birthday only reminds her of how little time she has left before she becomes too old to physically pass as female.
* BrattyTeenageDaughter: More like preteenage, but Livvy Piper comes off as this a lot of the time.
* BrattyTeenageDaughter: More like preteenage, but Livvy Piper comes off as this a lot of the time.
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* BirthdayHater: Kate. Kate, whose fourteenth birthday is when begins the story proper. Each birthday only reminds her serves as a reminder that she is running out of how little time she has left before she becomes too old starts going through puberty, which would make it more difficult for her to physically pass as female.
* BrattyTeenageDaughter: More like preteenage, but Livvy Piper comes off as this a lot of thetime.time, and she rarely has anything nice to say to or about Kate.
* BrattyTeenageDaughter: More like preteenage, but Livvy Piper comes off as this a lot of the
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* TheBully: Harry Beaumont has been tormenting Kate since they were small children. [[RapeIsASpecialKindOfEvil Alex Bonner is a darker example.]]
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* TheBully: Harry Beaumont has been tormenting Kate since they were small children. [[RapeIsASpecialKindOfEvil Alex Bonner is a darker example.example towards Leo.]]
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* TheCutie: Tia is absolutely ''adorable''.
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* TheCutie: Tia is absolutely ''adorable''.a cheerful toddler who loves Disney princess movies, likes to wear fairy wings around the house, and [[BigBrotherWorship adores her big brother]].
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* EarnYourHappyEnding: [[spoiler: Kate finally gains the courage to come out to her parents and live her truth, and is much happier as a result. Leo finally moves forward, and gets to relax and trust people for a change.]]
* FamilyEyeResemblance: Leo and Amber have their father's unusual eyes, sea green with amber flecks.
* FamilyEyeResemblance: Leo and Amber have their father's unusual eyes, sea green with amber flecks.
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* EarnYourHappyEnding: [[spoiler: Kate finally gains the courage to come out to her parents and live her truth, and is much happier as a result. Leo finally moves forward, on with his life, and gets to relax and trust people for a change.]]
* FamilyEyeResemblance: Leo and Amber have their father's unusual eyes, sea green with amber flecks. [[spoiler: When Leo meets his younger half-brother, he notes that the boy also inherited Jonathan's eyes.]]
* FamilyEyeResemblance: Leo and Amber have their father's unusual eyes, sea green with amber flecks. [[spoiler: When Leo meets his younger half-brother, he notes that the boy also inherited Jonathan's eyes.]]
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* FriendlyScheming: [[spoiler: Essie, Felix and Leo secretly organize an entire dance just so Kate and other outcast kids can actually have a good time, and even get Kate a dress, makeup and shoes to wear.]]
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* FriendlyScheming: [[spoiler: Essie, Felix and Leo secretly organize an entire alternative school dance just so Kate and other outcast kids can actually have a good time, and they even get Kate a dress, makeup and shoes to wear.]]
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* GoodParents: Mr and Mrs Piper, who desperately wish Kate would open up to them. They sweetly extend this kindness to Leo.
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* GoodParents: Mr and Mrs Piper, who desperately wish Kate would open up to them. They sweetly extend this kindness to Leo. [[spoiler: They're in on the plan to take Kate to a prom where she can be her true self, and her mother even does her makeup and hair for her.]]
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* HeCleansUpNicely: [[spoiler: Leo looks sharp in a grey prom suit.]]
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* HeCleansUpNicely: [[spoiler: Leo looks sharp in a grey prom suit. Essie loudly proclaims her appreciation, much to his embarassment.]]
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* LaserGuidedKarma: Harry Beaumont almost outs Kate in the middle of the cafeteria, but not before Leo breaks his nose.
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* LaserGuidedKarma: Harry Beaumont almost outs is two seconds away from publically outing Kate in the middle of the cafeteria, but not before school cafeteria when Leo intervenes and breaks his nose.
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* MentorInQueerness: [[spoiler: In a way, more experienced Leo is this to closeted Kate as the first other trans person she has ever met.]]
* AMinorKidroduction: The story begins with the protagonist telling of a class project that happened when she was eight. The kids wrote about what they wanted to be when they grow up. Kate wrote that she wanted to be a girl. The flashback stops there, but it's not hard to guess what happened afterwards.
* AMinorKidroduction: The story begins with the protagonist telling of a class project that happened when she was eight. The kids wrote about what they wanted to be when they grow up. Kate wrote that she wanted to be a girl. The flashback stops there, but it's not hard to guess what happened afterwards.
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* MentorInQueerness: [[spoiler: In a way, more experienced Leo is this to closeted Kate as since he is the first only other trans person she has ever met.]]
* AMinorKidroduction: The story begins with the protagonisttelling of recalling a class project that happened from back when she was eight.eight years old. The kids wrote about what they wanted to be when they grow up. Kate wrote that she wanted to be a girl. The flashback stops there, [[KidsAreCruel but it's not hard to guess what happened afterwards.afterwards]].
* AMinorKidroduction: The story begins with the protagonist
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* PerkyGoth: Essie is implied to be this.
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* PerkyGoth: Essie Essie, a hot blooded girl who is implied to be described as wearing a lot of eyeliner, black nail polish and has a predilection for dyeing her hair a different color every three months or so, sounds like she is probably this.
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* PintSizedPowerhouse: Leo's mother is 'tiny, built like a sparrow' [[spoiler: but beat up Annette Bonner, who according to Leo, looks like Film/TheTerminator.]]
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* PintSizedPowerhouse: Leo's mother is 'tiny, "tiny, built like a sparrow' sparrow" [[spoiler: but beat up Annette Bonner, who Bonner who, according to Leo, Leo at least, looks like Film/TheTerminator.]]
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* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: Mr Toolan, head teacher at Eden Park school, has a zero tolerance policy on physical violence but doesn't appear to do much where bullying is concerned. [[spoiler: He is also aware of why Leo was transferred. After Leo is outed, Mr Toolan quickly springs into action.]]
* SatelliteLoveInterest: Zachary Olsen doesn't get much characterization outside of existing as Kate's handsome, popular crush who doesn't seem aware that she even exists, nor does he get any lines of dialogue. She seems to be over him by the end of the story.
* SatelliteLoveInterest: Zachary Olsen doesn't get much characterization outside of existing as Kate's handsome, popular crush who doesn't seem aware that she even exists, nor does he get any lines of dialogue. She seems to be over him by the end of the story.
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* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: Mr Toolan, head teacher at Eden Park school, has a zero tolerance policy on physical violence but violence, though he doesn't appear to do much where verbal bullying is concerned. [[spoiler: He is also aware of why Leo was transferred. After Leo is outed, Mr Toolan quickly springs into action.]]
* SatelliteLoveInterest: Zachary Olsen doesn't get much characterization outside of existing as Kate's handsome, popular crush who doesn't seem aware that she even exists, nor does he get any lines of dialogue.She seems to be She's over him by the end of the story.
* SatelliteLoveInterest: Zachary Olsen doesn't get much characterization outside of existing as Kate's handsome, popular crush who doesn't seem aware that she even exists, nor does he get any lines of dialogue.
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* ShipperOnDeck: It's only mentioned once, but Essie ships Kate/Leo.
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* ShipperOnDeck: It's only mentioned She brings it up exactly once, but Essie ships seems to ship Kate/Leo.
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* SmartPeopleWearGlasses: Felix wears glasses and is easily the brainiac of the trio.
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* SmartPeopleWearGlasses: Felix wears glasses and is easily the brainiac of the trio.trio he forms with Kate and Essie.
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* StrongFamilyResemblance: Leo is pretty much a carbon copy of his DisappearedDad. Kate also takes after her own father; understandably, she's not happy about it.
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* StrongFamilyResemblance: Leo is pretty much a carbon copy of his DisappearedDad. Kate also takes after her own father; understandably, [[TransTribulations understandably]], she's not happy about it.
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* ThatCameOutWrong: Seeking to praise Kate on her bravery, poor Simon Allen tells her that she's 'got proper balls'. He realizes the very next second that that wasn't the right thing to say, and immediately corrects himself. Kate is actually touched.
* TheirFirstTime: Alicia attempts to initiate this between herself and Leo on Bonfire Night. [[spoiler: Leo is then forced to come out.]]
* TheirFirstTime: Alicia attempts to initiate this between herself and Leo on Bonfire Night. [[spoiler: Leo is then forced to come out.]]
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* ThatCameOutWrong: Seeking to praise Kate on her bravery, poor Simon Allen tells her that she's 'got proper balls'. He realizes the very next second that that wasn't ''at all'' the right thing to say, and immediately corrects himself. Kate is actually taken aback, and quite touched.
* TheirFirstTime: Alicia attempts to initiate this between herself and Leo on Bonfire Night. [[spoiler: Leo is then forced to comeout.out to her.]]
* TheirFirstTime: Alicia attempts to initiate this between herself and Leo on Bonfire Night. [[spoiler: Leo is then forced to come
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Kate Piper is a fourteen year old Transgender girl who cannot bring herself to come out to her family. Her two only friends know and support her through and through, but she is seen as an outcast at school. Kate believes she will never truly be happy in her own skin, but the arrival of a mysterious new student soon changes everything. Leo Denton, transferred to Eden Park from the local 'sink school' of Cloverdale for unknown 'special reasons', just wants to be left alone. But the day he rescues Kate from a public hazing marks the start of a tentative friendship. And Leo may or may not have a secret of his own...
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Kate Piper is a fourteen year old Transgender UsefulNotes/{{Transgender}} girl who cannot bring herself to come out to her family. Her two only friends know and support her through and through, but she is seen as an outcast at school. Kate believes she will never truly be happy in her own skin, but the arrival of a mysterious new student soon changes everything. Leo Denton, transferred to Eden Park from the local 'sink school' of Cloverdale for unknown 'special reasons', just wants to be left alone. But the day he rescues Kate from a public hazing marks the start of a tentative friendship. And Leo may or may not have a secret of his own...
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* OrdinaryHighSchoolStudent: Well, Junior High, but the narration goes to great lengths to hammer into the reader just how painfully ordinary Kate is, demonstrated by an informed lack of talent in a lot of things, like maths, singing, sewing... which considering that the narrator for the most part is Kate, might also just be her own poor self image.
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* OrdinaryHighSchoolStudent: Well, Junior High, but the narration goes to great lengths to hammer into the reader just how painfully ordinary Kate is, demonstrated by an informed lack of talent in a lot of things, like maths, singing, sewing... which considering that the narrator for the most part is Kate, might also just be her own poor self image.deprecation.
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* BrokenPedestal: [[spoiler: Leo, who has never met his father, idealizes him as a dashing adventurer, who he is certain misses Leo just as much as Leo misses him. When he finally does meet him, it transpires that Jonathan Denton has a whole new life as an upper class family man, and wants absolutely nothing to do with Leo.]]
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* BrokenPedestal: [[spoiler: Leo, who has never met his father, idealizes him as a dashing adventurer, who he is certain misses Leo just as much as Leo misses him. When he finally does meet him, it transpires that Jonathan Denton has a whole new life as an upper middle class family man, and wants absolutely nothing to do with Leo.]]
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* CassandraTruth: Leo's mother claims his father abandoned her when she was still pregnant, which Leo scoffs at. Later turns out that she was telling the truth all along.
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* CassandraTruth: Leo's mother claims his father abandoned her when she was still pregnant, which Leo scoffs at. Later This unfortunately turns out that she was telling the truth all along.to be true.
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* AngerBornOfWorry: [[spoiler: Aunt Kerry gives Leo an ArmorPiercingSlap and furiously chews him out when he comes home after two days.]]
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* AngerBornOfWorry: [[spoiler: Aunt Kerry gives Leo an ArmorPiercingSlap a slap and furiously chews him out when he comes home after two days.]]
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** Similarly, popular GoGetterGirl Alicia Baker develops an interest in standoffish GrumpyBear Leo Denton.
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** Similarly, popular GoGetterGirl Alicia Baker develops an interest in standoffish GrumpyBear grump Leo Denton.
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* GrumpyBear: Leo is gruff and misanthropic (at least in the beginning).
