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• Title:[ Hōrō musuko. English]
  [放浪息子. English]
  Wandering son / Shimura Takako.
  
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• Author/Creator: Shimura, Takako, 1973-
  志村, 貴子, 1973- author, artist.
  
• Other Contributors/Collections:Thorn, Rachel.
  
• Published/Created:Seattle, Wash. : Fantagraphics ; London : Turnaround [distributor], ©2003-©2015.
  

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  • Location:OKANAGAN LIBRARY stacksWhere is this?
    
  • Call Number: PN6790.J33 S55
    
  • Number of Items:8
    
  • Status:Available
    
  • Location Has:v.1-8
    
    

   
• Library of Congress Subjects:School children--Comic books, strips, etc.--Fiction.
  Gender identity--Comic books, strips, etc.--Fiction.
  
• Genre/Form: Graphic novels.
  
• Description:8 volumes : chiefly illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm.
  
• Summary:V.1: "The fifth grade. The threshold to puberty, and the beginning of the end of childhood innocence. Shuichi Nitori and his new friend Yoshino Takatsuki have happy homes, loving families, and are well-liked by their classmates. But they share a secret that further complicates a time of life that is awkward for anyone: Shuichi is a boy who wants to be a girl, and Yoshino is a girl who wants to be a boy "-- back cover.
  
• Notes:V.1: First published; Tokyo: Enterbrain, c2003.
  Book reads from right to left in the traditional Japanese format.
  V.1: Translation, Matt Thorn ; lettering, Paul Baresh, Ian Burns & Priscilla Miller.
  Translated from the Japanese.
  
• ISBN:9781606994160 (v.1)
  1606994166
  9781606994566 (v. 2)
  9781606995334 (v. 3)
  9781606996058 (v. 4)
  9781606997505 (v. 7)
  9781606998311 (v. 8)
  
• Contents:v. 1. The boy who's a girl ; The wandering son wanders on ; Oscar and André ; Wandering daughter ; Nitori-kun's birthday ; Friends and their words ; Takatsuki-san's calamity ; Everything I want
  v. 2. Love & (hair)piece ; Dreams and desires and stuff ; An unfortunate boy ; An undaunted girl ; The exchange diary ; An odd pair ; School trip : day 1 ; School trip : day 2
  v. 3. Tagging along ; A day of much ado ; Half-crazed ; A new friend ; Sunday date ; Takatsuki Yoshino's big decision ; Stranger and stranger ; A song for everyone
  v. 4. Big sister's romance ; Tragic princess ; Romantic escape ; Kissing incident ; And it's not even spring ; Confessions of love ; Cracks reappear ; Ahh, junior high
  v. 5. The curious Sarashina-san ; The fresh-faced class number three ; We're all friends in this class ; Beautiful Monday ; The teacher loves a mystery ; Practicing being girls ; The door to summer ; Tensions build (again). v. 6. The start of summer vacation ; The middle of summer of vacation ; The end of summer vacation ; Preparing for the festival : [parts 1-3] ; Gather around! It's festival time! : [parts 1-2] ; Bonus manga
  v. 7. How Mako feels ; A maiden's prayer ; Yoshino in bad temper ; The secret life of Nitori-kun ; Ripples ; A thaw? ; Take me out to the ski slopes (part 1) ; Take me out to the ski slopes (part 2)
  v. 8. Spring ; The opposite of "like" ; The measure of a big sister ; Wavering ; Live to sing ; The morning of a new journey ; The dam ; The dam bursts.