Though continually embarrassed by Luna's efforts, Regan loves her brother and helps as much as she can, usually to her own detriment. At the same time, Liam makes his/her own stumbling attempts to assert a female identity, encouraged by an Internet mentor named Teri Lynn. Their relationship is self-consciously hilarious, filled as it is with a youthful clumsiness, both physical and verbal. We watch as newcomer Chris crashes his way into Regan's life, first looking for a clever chemistry partner, and later with deliberate interest. Regan's escape is her babysitting job with the family she wishes was her own. 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'. L una is told from the point of view of thirteen-year-old Regan, whose life has long been burdened by a painful secret.

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