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.   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.   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.   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.   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.   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.   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, Florida. 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.   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.   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.     More... Catherine Atkins When Jeff Comes Home Tea Benduhn Gravel Queen Francesca Lia Block Girl Goddess #9   Weetzie Bat Paula Boock Dare Truth or Promise Meagan Brothers Debbie Harry Sings in French Peter Cameron Someday This Pain Will be Useful to You Stephen Chbosky The Perks of Being a Wallflower Rachel Cohn & David Levithan Naomi & Ely's No Kiss List Chris Crutcher Athletic Shorts: Six Short Stories   Ironman Jean Ferris Eight Seconds Garret Freymann-Weyr  My Heartbeat Helen Frost Keesha's House Nancy Garden Annie on My Mind   Hear Us Out! Steven Goldman Two Parties, One Tux, and a Very Short Film About the Grapes of Wrath Sue Hines Out of the Shadows Kathe Koja Talk David LaRochelle Absolutely, Positively Not David Levithan Boy Meets Boy   The Full Spectrum E. Lockhart Dramarama Catherine Gilbert Murdock The Off Season Lauren Myracle Kissing Kate David E. Newton Gay and Lesbian Rights: A Reference Handbook Joyce Carol Oates Sexy Lisa Papademetriou M or F? Gary Paulsen The Car Julie Anne Peters Far From Xanadu   Keeping You a Secret   Luna: A Novel Carol Plum-Ucci What Happened to Lani Garver Nina Revoyr The Necessary Hunger Sara Ryan Empress of the World   The Rules for Hearts Alex Sanchez Rainbow Boys   Rainbow High   Rainbow Road   So Hard to Say Sonya Sones One of Those Hideous Books Where the Mother Dies James St. James Freak Show Karin L. Swisher (ed.) Teenage Sexuality: Opposing Viewpoints Mariko Tamaki Skim William Taylor The Blue Lawn Vivian Vande Velde Alison, Who Went Away Kate Walker Peter Ellen Wittlinger Hard Love Virginia Euwer Wolff True Believer Jacqueline Woodson After Tupac & D Foster   From the Notebooks of Melanin Sun