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Absolutely, Positively Not Chronicles a teenage boy's humorous attempts to fit in at his Minnesota high school by becoming a macho, girl-loving, "Playboy" pinup-displaying heterosexual. |
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Annie on My Mind Liza puts aside her feelings for Annie after the disaster at school, but eventually she allows love to triumph over the ignorance of people. |
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Ash In this variation on the Cinderella story, Ash grows up believing in the fairy realm that the king and his philosophers have sought to suppress, until one day she must choose between a handsome fairy cursed to love her and the King's Huntress whom she loves. |
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Bermudez Triangle The friendship of three high school girls and their relationships with their friends and families are tested when two of them fall in love with each other. |
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Between Mom and Jo Fourteen-year-old Nick has a three-legged dog named Lucky 2, some pet fish, and two mothers, whose relationship complicates his entire life as they face prejudice, work problems, alcoholism, cancer, and finally separation. |
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Boy Meets Boy This is the story of Paul, a sophomore at a high school like no other: The cheerleaders ride Harleys, the homecoming queen used to be a guy named Daryl (she now prefers Infinite Darlene and is also the star quarterback.) |
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Debbie Harry Sings in French When Johnny completes an alcohol rehabilitation program and his mother sends him to live with his uncle in North Carolina, he meets Maria, who seems to understand his fascination with the new wave band Blondie, and he learns about his deceased father's youthful forays into "glam rock," which gives him perspective on himself, his past, and his current life. |
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Empress of the World While attending a summer institute, fifteen-year-old Nic meets another girl named Battle, falls in love with her, and finds the relationship to be difficult and confusing. |
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The Flip Side Robert, a British fifteen-year-old, is confused when he plays the part of Rosalind while studying Shakespeare in school and discovers parts of his personality that he did not know existed. |
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Freak Show Having faced teasing that turned into a brutal attack (Christianity expressed as persecution), and the loss of his only real friend when he could no longer keep his crush for him secret, seventeen-year-old drag queen Billy Bloom decides the only way to become fabulous again is to run for Homecoming Queen at his elite, private school near Fort Lauderdale, Florida. |
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From the Notebooks of Melanin Sun Fourteen-year-old Melanin Sun's comfortable, quiet life is shattered when his mother reveals she has fallen in love with a woman. |
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Geography Club A group of gay and lesbian teenagers finds mutual support when they form the "Geography Club" at their high school. Sequel: Order of the Poison Oak Also check out the new companion novel: Split Screen: Attack Of The Soul-Sucking Brain Zombies And Bride Of The Soul-Sucking Brain Zombies |
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Getting It Hoping to impress a sexy female classmate, fifteen-year-old Carlos secretly hires gay student Sal to give him an image makeover, in exchange for Carlos's help in forming a Gay-Straight Alliance at their Texas high school. |
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grl2grl : short fictions The complexities of love, romance, and dating for gay teenage girls are explored in this collection of short stories. |
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Hard Love After starting to publish a zine in which he writes his secret feelings about his lonely life and his parents' divorce, sixteen-year-old John meets an unusual girl and begins to develop a healthier personality. Sequel: Love & Lies: Marisol's Story |
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Hero Thom Creed, the gay son of a disowned superhero, finds that he, too, has special powers and is asked to join the very League that rejected his father, and it is there that Thom finds other misfits whom he can finally trust. |
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How I Paid for College: a novel of sex, theft, friendship &
musical theater A laugh-out-loud account of high school senior Edward Zanni's attempts to raise money for tuition at Julliard after his father cuts him off. |
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Kissing Kate Sixteen-year-old Lissa's relationship with her best friend changes after they kiss at a party and Lissa does not know what to do, until she gets help from an unexpected new friend. |
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Luna: a novel Fifteen-year-old Regan's life, which has always revolved around keeping her older brother Liam's transsexuality a secret, changes when Liam decides to start the process of "transitioning" by first telling his family and friends that he is a girl who was born in a boy's body. |
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M+O4evr In parallel stories, Hannah, a slave, finds love while fleeing a Maryland plantation in 1842; and in the present, Opal watches her life-long best friend, Marianne, pull away and eventually lose her life in the same Pennsylvania ravine where Hannah died. |
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My Heartbeat As she tries to understand the closeness between her older brother and his best friend, fourteen-year-old Ellen finds her relationship with each of them changing. |
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How Beautiful the Ordinary : twelve stories of identity Presents twelve stories by contemporary, award-winning young adult authors, some presented in graphic or letter format, which explore themes of gender identity, love, and sexuality. |
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Skim "Skim" (Kimberly Keiko Cameron) is a not-slim would-be Wiccan goth who goes to a private girls' school. When her classmate Katie is dumped by her boyfriend, who then kills himself, the entire school goes into mourning overdrive. The popular clique stars a club to boost school spirit, but Skim sinks into an ever-deepening depression. |
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Sprout Moving from Long Island to Kansas after his mother dies, a teenaged boy nicknamed Sprout is surprised to find new friends, a fascinating landscape, and romantic love. |
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The Vast Fields of Ordinary The summer after graduating from an Iowa high school, eighteen-year-old Dade Hamilton watches his parents' marriage disintegrate, ends his long-term, secret relationship, comes out of the closet, and savors first love. |
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Will Grayson, Will Grayson When two teens, one gay and one straight, meet accidentally and discover that they share the same name, their lives become intertwined as one begins dating the other's best friend, who produces a play revealing his relationship with them both. |
List updated June 2010—Joanna Nigrelli
