It's the summer before middle school and eleven-year-old Bug's best friend Moira has decided the two of them need to use the next few months to prepare. For Moira, this means figuring out the right clothes to wear, learning how to put on makeup, and deciding which boys are cuter in their yearbook photos than in real life. But none of this is all that appealing to Bug, who doesn't particularly want to spend more time trying to understand how to be a girl. Besides, there's something more important to worry about: A ghost is haunting Bug's eerie old house in rural Vermont...and maybe haunting Bug in particular. As Bug begins to untangle the mystery of who this ghost is and what they're trying to say, an altogether different truth comes to light—Bug is transgender.


就在上中學前的夏天，十一歲的小蟲最好的朋友莫伊拉做了決定，她們倆個需要用接下來的幾個月時間來好好準備。對莫伊拉來說，這意味著穿什麼衣服好看，學習如何化妝，並判斷哪些男生本人沒有紀念冊上的照片看起來性感。但是對小蟲來說，他對這些事並不感興趣，他不想花很多時間去了解如何成為一個女孩。此外，還有更重要的事情需要擔心：小蟲在佛州鄉下的怪誕老屋裡有鬼魂出沒……而且可能特別針對小蟲在擾亂。當小蟲設法解開謎團，找出幽靈的身份以及他們想要傳達的訊息時，一個全然不同的真相浮現了--小蟲是個跨性別者。

（文字整理/楊靜愉）