
Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender
Meagan
Brothers
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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Peter
Cameron
Someday This Pain Will be Useful to You
Eighteen-year-old
James, who lives in New York City with his older sister and divorced
mother, struggles to find a direction for his life.
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Rachel
Cohn & David Levithan
Naomi & Ely's No Kiss List
Although they have
been friends and neighbors all their lives, straight Naomi and gay
Ely find their relationship severely strained during their freshman
year at New York University.
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Steven
Goldman
Two Parties, One Tux, and a Very Short Film
About the Grapes of Wrath
Mitch, a shy and
awkward high school junior, negotiates the difficult social
situations he encounters, both with girls and with his best friend
David, after David reveals to him that he is gay.
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Nina
Revoyr
The Necessary Hunger
The rivalry and
love of two high school girls playing basketball in Los Angeles. One
is a shy Japanese-American, the other an aggressive
African-American, and both are lesbian. Their relationship receives
a new twist when the mother of the African-American moves in with
the father of the Japanese-American and the girls begin living under
one roof. A first novel.
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Sara Ryan
The Rules for Hearts
Battle Hall
Davies' brother Nick ran away from home when she was in high school.
Now he has found her and she is going to stay with him for the
summer before starting college. Battle discovers that neither she
nor her brother is the person she thought they were.
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James
St. James
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 under wraps, seventeen-year-old Billy Bloom, a
drag queen, decides the only to become fabulous again is to run for
Homecoming Queen at his elite, private school near Fort Lauderdale,
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Mariko
Tamaki
Skim
Presents the whole
gamut of tortured teen life--friends, love, depression, suicide, and
cliques--through the eyes of Skim, a.k.a. Kimberly Keiko Cameron, a
would-be Wiccan goth at a girls' academy in Toronto during the 1990s.
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Jacqueline
Woodson
After Tupac & D Foster
In the New York
City borough of Queens in 1996, three girls bond over their shared
love of Tupac Shakur's music, as together they try to make sense of
the unpredictable world in which they live.
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Kate Walker
Peter
An ordinary
fifteen-year-old Australian kid, who enjoys riding his dirt bike and
wants to be a photographer, becomes confused about his sexuality
when he finds he is attracted to a gay friend of his older brother.
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