School Library JournalGr 9 Up—Adonis is a football player. He's not the quarterback. He's not a leader. He's not the star. So when an effeminate transfer student named Alan starts at his school, and all his football-player friends resolve to make fun of him, Adonis is trapped. He can't go against his friends because he doesn't want to be ridiculed, too. Things become even more complicated when his sister Jeannie and girlfriend Melody form a close friendship with Alan, who eventually starts coming to school wearing lipstick and calling himself Alana. When they are paired together in a school project, Adonis gets to know Alana better and realizes that, while he's still struggling to discover his identity, he's not the monster that his friends make him out to be.
