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GAY AND LESBIAN FICTION FOR TEENS
| BAUER, Marion Dane (ed.) |
Am I Blue? Coming Out from the Silence |
A collection of short stories about homosexuality by such authors as Bruce Coville, M.E. Kerr, William Sleator, and Jane Yolen.
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| BLOCK, Francesca Lia |
Violet and Claire |
In search of material for a screenplay they are developing, seventeen-year-old Violet and her friend Claire try to make life a movie as they chase their dreams through dangerously beautiful Los Angeles.
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Witch Baby |
Witch baby comes to live with Weetzie Bat and My-Secret-Angel-Lover-Man and has wild adventures in Los Angeles as she tries to understand there she belongs.
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| CART, Michael |
My Father's Scar |
As he enters into his first relationships as a gay man, a college freshman recalls the aching loneliness of life with his alcoholic physically abusive father in a community prejudiced against homosexuals.
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| CRUTCHER, Chris |
Ironman |
While training for a triathlon, seventeen-year-old Bo attends an anger management group at school which leads him to examine his relationship with his father.
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| DAVIS, Deborah |
My Brother Has AIDS |
When her older brother returns home because he is dying of AIDS, thirteen-year-old Lucy deals with changes in her family life, in relationships with classmates, and in her commitment to her swimming team.
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| FERRIS, Jean |
Eight Seconds |
Eighteen-year-old John must confront his own sexuality when he goes to rodeo and finds himself forming a friendship with Kit, an older boy who is smart, tough, complicated, gorgeous and gay. BR>
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| FOX, Paula |
The Eagle Kite |
Liam's father has AIDS, and his family cannot talk about it until Liam reveals a secret that he has tried to deny ever since he saw his father embracing another man at the beach.
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| GARDEN, Nancy |
Annie on my Mind |
Liza begins to doubt her feelings for Annie after someone finds out about their relationship, and realizes, after starting college, that her denial of love for Annie was a mistake.
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The Year They Burned the Books |
While trying to come to terms with her own lesbian feelings, Jamie, a high-school senior and editor of the school newspaper, finds herself in the middle of a battle with a group of townspeople over the new health education curriculum.
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| GREENE, Bette |
The Drowning of Stephan Jones |
As her mother battles a citizens' group that wants to ban all "anti-Christian" literature from the public library, Carla faces her own battle of torn loyalties when her boyfriend starts persecuting the homosexual owners of an antiques shop.
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| HINES, Sue |
Out of the Shadows |
After losing her mother in a car accident, Rowanna begins to bond with her mom's lover and befriends Jodie, a new girl in town with her own troubling secret.
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| KERR, M. E. |
Deliver Us from Evie |
Sixteen-year-old Parr Burrman and his family face some difficult times when word spreads through their rural Missouri town that his older sister is a lesbian, and she leaves the family farm to live with the daughter of the town's banker.
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"Hello," I Lied: a Novel |
Summering in the Hamptons on the estate of a famous rock star, seventeen-year-old Lang tries to decide how to tell his longtime friends that his is gay, while struggling with an unexpected infatuation with a girl from France.
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| KOERTGE, Ronald |
The Arizona Kid |
Sixteen-year-old Billy spends the summer with his gay uncle in Tucson and works at a racetrack where he falls in love with an outspoken horse exerciser named Clara Mae.
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| MOWRY, Jess |
Babylon Boyz |
Inner-city teenagers find a suitcase full of cocaine and must decide whether to sell it and take opportunities the money would provide or to destroy it to keep the drug from poisoning their community.
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| RYAN, Sara |
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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| SANCHEZ, Alex |
Rainbow Boys |
Three high school seniors, a jock with a girlfriend and an alcoholic father, a closeted gay, and a flamboyant gay rights advocate, struggle with family issues, gay bashers, first sex, and conflicting feelings about each other.
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| SINCLAIR, April |
Coffee Will Make You Black |
An Afro-American woman gains new political awareness when Martin Luther King, Jr. is assassinated.
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| SOEHNLEIN, K. M. |
The World of Normal Boys |
In the late 1970's, Robin MacKenzie enjoys a dutiful life with his parents, until a tragic accident destroys his family's middle-American dream and threatens to tear them apart, leading Robin to embark on a rebellious odyssey of sexual self-discovery.
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| TAYLOR, William |
The Blue Lawn |
A fifteen-year-old boy acknowledges his attraction to an older rugby teammate, as he also begins to break out of preconceived notions his family and others have about him.
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Jerome |
As they try to cope with the suicide of a close friend, two teenagers discover new aspects of themselves, their friendship, and their relationships with other people.
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| TORRES, Laura |
November Ever After |
In the aftermath of her mother's death, sixteen-year-old Amy finds solace in the company of her best friend Sara, but is shocked to discover that Sara is romantically involved with another girl and has kept it a secret from her.
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| VELAQUEZ, Gloria |
Tommy Stands Alone |
A high school student and member of a Mexican American family struggles with his sexual identity and finally learns that he will not have to stand alone any more.
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| WERSBA, Barbara |
Whistle Me Home |
Seventeen-year-old Noli feels as if she has found her soul mate when handsome, sensitive TJ moves to Sag Harbor, but even as their feelings deepen, individual secrets threaten their relationship.
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| WITTLINGER, Ellen |
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.
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| WOLFF, Virginia Euwer |
True Believer |
Living in the inner city amidst guns and poverty, fifteen-year-old LaVaughn learns from old and new friends, and inspiring mentors, that life is what you make it - an occasion to rise to.
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