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Tea Benduhn  Gravel Queen

All Aurin wants to do the summer before her senior year in high school is hang out with her friends Kenney and Fred, but when she falls in love with Neila, everything changes.
 

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.

 

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.
 

Sue Hines  Out of the Shadows

Ro thinks her family is totally unlike anyone else's. Jodie is afraid of herself, so then spend a long time stepping carefully around the truth, hiding secrets that they know are too terrible to reveal. These shadows from the past just won't go away, and in a hostile society Ro and Jodie end up with only each other--and that grab bag of feelings that make up a friendship: Love, hate, guilt--and forgiveness.
 

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.
 

Alex Sanchez  Rainbow High

Follows three gay high school seniors as they struggle with issues of coming out, safe sex, homophobia, being in love, and college choices.
 

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.

Andreas Steinhöfel  The Center of the World

As he works through his often difficult relationships with his single mother, distant twin sister, his first boyfriend, and an odd assortment of friends, a teenage boy learns about the wounds and healing brought by love.
 

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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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
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!: Lesbian and Gay Stories of Strugge, Progress and Hope, 1950 to the Present
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: A New Generation of Writing About Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender, Questioning and Other Identities
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
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
Andreas Steinhöfel The Center of the World
Karin L. Swisher (ed.) Teenage Sexuality: Opposing Viewpoints
Vivian Vande Velde Alison, Who Went Away
Kate Walker Peter
Ellen Wittlinger Hard Love
Virginia Euwer Wolff True Believer
Jacqueline Woodson From the Notebooks of Melanin Sun

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