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Author
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Title
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Book Location(s)
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| Bauer, Marion Dane,
ed. |
Am I Blue?
Coming Out From the Silence
This collection of short stories written by sixteen respected
authors explores the experiences and troubles of gay and
lesbian youth. |
Teen S.C. Am
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| Bechard, Margaret
|
If It
Doesn’t Kill You
Ben is a star high school football player who is trying
to deal with the fact that his father left their family
to begin a relationship with a man. |
Teen Bechard
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| Cart, Michael, ed. |
Love
& Sex: 10 Stories of Truth
Ten stories from a stellar roundup of writers explore,
with candor and heart, how passion, sex, crushes, and
commitment alter and influence teens’ lives. |
Teen S.C. Love
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| Cart, Michael |
My Father’s
Scar
As he enters into his first relationship as a gay man,
a college freshman recalls the aching loneliness of life
with his alcoholic, abusive father in a community prejudiced
against homosexuality. |
Teen Cart
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| Chambers, Aidan |
Postcards
From No Man’s Land
In Amsterdam to visit the WWII grave of the grandfather
he never knew, British teenager Jacob falls in love with
a beautiful, young woman, even as he’s attracted
to an openly gay young man. Winner of the British Carnegie
Medal. |
Teen Chambers
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| Ferris, Jean |
Eight
Seconds
John is forced to make tough choices about homosexuality
when he learns that his rodeo buddy, is gay, and that
people consider him gay by association. |
Teen Ferris
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| Freymann-Wehr, Garrett |
My Heartbeat
Ellen has always been very close to her older brother,
Link, and has always been in love with Link’s best
friend James. But when she enters their private high school,
she is surprised that some people assume James and Link
are a “couple”. |
Teen Wehr
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| Garden, Nancy |
Good
Moon Rising
When Jan begins her senior year of high school, little
does she expect that she will realize that she is a lesbian,
lose the starring part in the school play, and take over
as director when her beloved drama teacher becomes ill.
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Teen Garden
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| Garden, Nancy |
The Year
They Burned the Books
Student journalists battle censorship and violent homophobia.
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Teen Garden
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| Kerr, M.E. |
Deliver
Us From Evie
Sixteen year old Parr Burrman and his family face some
difficult times when Parr’s older sister leaves the
family farm to live with the daughter of the town’s
banker, and word spreads through their rural Missouri
town that she is a lesbian. |
Teen Kerr
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| Ryan, Sara
|
Empress
of the World
While she is attending a summer institute, fifteen year
old Nic meets a girl named Battle, falls in love with
her, and finds the relationship to be difficult and confusing.
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Teen Ryan
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| Sanchez, Alex |
Rainbow
Boys
In this gutsy, frank novel, three gay high school
seniors, Jason, Kyle and Nelson, deal in different ways
with the difficulties of coming out, relationships, and
standing up for who they are. |
Teen Sanchez
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| Winick, Judd |
Pedro
and Me: Friendship, Loss, and What I Learned.
This is the inspiring true story of Pedro Zamora, a young
man who lived with AIDS, and became an AIDS educator to
help others. |
362.196 W727p
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| Wittlinger, Ellen |
Hard
Love
John thinks he’s immune to emotion until he meets
Marisol, the author of his favorite zine. He falls in
love, but Marisol, a lesbian, just wants to be friends.
A 2000 Printz Honor Book. |
Teen Wittlinger
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| Wolff, Virginia Euwer
|
True
Believer
In this heart-stopping sequel to Make Lemonade, La Vaughan
suffers her first deep crush on a boy, only to see him
kiss another boy. A 2002 Printz Honor Book. |
Teen Wolff
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| Woog, Dan
|
Jocks:
True Stories of America’s Gay Male Athletes
The author, a coach and educator, communicates the
fulfillment these men have found in sports, as well as
the courage it took for them to come out to teammates
and coaches. |
796.08664 W879j
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