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10 best books like Athletic Shorts: Six Short Stories (Chris Crutcher): Life is Funny, The Arizona Kid, 8 Plus 1, Love & Sex: Ten Stories of Truth, The Joy of Gay Sex, Guess What?, Revolutionary Voices: A Multicultural Queer Youth Anthology, The Drowning of Stephan Jones, Crazy Lady!, You Hear Me?: Poems and Writing by Teenage Boys

Life is Funny
AuthorE.R. Frank
ISBN0142300837
From the outside, they're simply a group of urban teenagers. But from the inside, they're some of the most complex people you'll ever meet. There's Eric, fiercely protective of his brother Mickey-but he has a secret that holds together his past and future. Sonia, struggling to live the life of a good...
The Arizona Kid
AuthorRon Koertge
ISBN0763626953
A trip out West to work at a racetrack — and a sojourn with a sophisticated gay uncle — bring unexpected discoveries in this quick-witted coming-of-age novel by the author of STONER & SPAZ and MARGAUX WITH AN X.

I was in the West. The Old West. The Wild West! A whole summer in a new place:...
8 Plus 1
AuthorRobert Cormier
Meet seventeen-year-old Mike, who visits his grandmother's bedside and learns a family secret.
A divorced father who discovers only love, not bribes, can keep his daughter "his" on Thursdays.
And Jerry, a young boy desperately looking for the missing Grover Cleveland card to complete his...
Love & Sex: Ten Stories of Truth
AuthorMichael Cart
ISBN0689832036
"More than thirty years ago a pioneering young adult librarian named Margaret A. Edwards protested that 'many adults seem to think that if sex is not mentioned to adolescents, it will go away.' "As succeeding decades have demonstrated, silence is no arbiter of behavior. Not only has sex not gone away,...
The Joy of Gay Sex
AuthorCharles Silverstein
ISBN0060012749
For a new century and a new generation of readers comes a fully revised and expanded edition of a classic guide to gay sex, love, and life.

Invaluable as a sex guide, a resource on building self-esteem, and a trusted aid for coming out of the closet, The Joy of Gay Sex covers the ins and outs of gay...
Guess What?
AuthorMem Fox
ISBN0152004521
This is a throwback review from back when I had my dream job:


One of my duties as a librarian is to hold up the rights of academic freedom! Book banning will not be tolerated! I have already had several run-ins with parents who object to my carefully chosen selections and I am always articulate...
Revolutionary Voices: A Multicultural Queer Youth Anthology
AuthorAmy Sonnie
ISBN1555835589
Invisible. Unheard. Alone. Chilling words, but apt to describe the isolation and alienation of queer youth. In silence and fear they move from childhood memories of intolerance or violence to the unknown, unmentored landscape of queer adulthood, their voices stilled or ignored. No longer. Revolutionary...
The Drowning of Stephan Jones
AuthorBette Greene
ISBN0440226953
Hate. It's the farthest feeling from sixteen-year-old Carla Wayland's mind. She can't believe people would persecute others just because they are different. But she isn't about to worry about the injustice surrounding her because she's in love with handsome and popular Andy Harris. Although raised...
Crazy Lady!
AuthorJane Leslie Conly
ISBN0064405710
I am reading books from the ALA’s most challenged list. I checked off all the books I have already read (although I plan to go back and read some) and now I am working through the part of the list I am interested in reading. I went through the list in my school library and grabbed this one. I finished it this...
You Hear Me?: Poems and Writing by Teenage Boys
AuthorBetsy Franco
Teenage boys speak out—without the filter of adult sensibility—in a compelling collection of poetry and prose.

In a powerful collection of more than seventy uncensored poems and essays, more than fifty teenage boys from across the country explore their many-layered concerns: identity,...
The What's Happening to My Body? Book for Girls: A Growing-Up Guide for Parents and Daughters
AuthorLynda Madaras
ISBN1557044449
I checked this out from the library when I was looking for a book to give my almost-8 yr.-old. I found the content a little bit too detailed in areas I didn't feel she was ready for yet (birth control, for instance - yikes!! I'm not ready for that!) And it had some anatomical illustrations of boys and girls...
Detour for Emmy
AuthorMarilyn Reynolds
ISBN1929777051
In the 9th grade, Emmy is an A student, a soccer star, and a lead soprano in the school choir. She won't let her alcoholic mother or her father, long gone, stand in her way. Emmy falls for Art, a junior who is also one of the choir's lead singers. Art is a dream of a boyfriend until Emmy finds that she's pregnant....
The Facts Speak for Themselves
AuthorBrock Cole
ISBN1932425713
How to describe Brock Cole's brilliant new young-adult novel, "The Facts Speak for Themselves?" Here's how the author himself did it in a recent magazine interview: "The Facts [Speak for Themselves?"] starts with a murder and the witness to the murder is a 13-year-old girl. In the initial interrogations,...
Jump Ship to Freedom
AuthorJames Lincoln Collier
ISBN0440443237
Young Daniel Arabus and his mother are slaves in the house of Captain Ivers of Stratford, Connecticut. By law they should be free, since Daniel's father fought in the Revolutionary army and earned enough in soldiers' notes to buy his family's freedom.

But now Daniel's father is dead, and Mrs....
Deal with It! A Whole New Approach to Your Body, Brain, and Life as a gURL
AuthorEsther Drill
ISBN0671041576
Deal With It! offers a whole new approach for dealing with your life as a girl. It's a resource to help you learn about, laugh about, and figure out the stuff you go through on your way through life. It won't tell you what to do, because you'll need to decide that for yourself. But whether you're wondering...
I Saw Esau: The Schoolchild's Pocket Book
AuthorIona Opie
ISBN0763611999
"Sticks and stones may break my bones, but names will never hurt me."
That's what children chant when they are being teased; it's what their parents chanted, and their grandparents and their great grandparents before them. Collected in this invaluable book are the wit and wisdom of generations...
Pick-Up Game: A Full Day of Full Court
AuthorMarc Aronson
ISBN0763645621
Pass! Shoot! Swish! An all-star team of YA authors scores spectacularly with an action-packed anthology about street basketball.

It’s one steamy July day at the West 4th Street Court in NYC, otherwise known as The Cage. Hotshot ESPN is wooing the scouts, Boo is struggling to guard the weird...
First Crossing: Stories About Teen Immigrants
AuthorDonald R. Gallo
ISBN0763632910
"Stories by eleven well-known authors touch on a variety of teen experiences, with enough attitude and angst to speak to young adults anywhere." — SCHOOL LIBRARY JOURNAL

Fleeing from political violence in Venezuela, Amina and her family have settled in the United States. Sarah, adopted,...
It's Perfectly Normal: A Book about Changing Bodies, Growing Up, Sex, and Sexual Health
AuthorRobie H. Harris
ISBN0763624330
"Alternately playful and realistic, Emberley's. . . . art reinforces Harris's message that bodies come in all sizes, shapes, and colors -- and that each variation is 'perfectly normal.'" -- PUBLISHERS WEEKLY (starred review)

When young people have questions about sex, real answers can...
King and King
AuthorLinda de Haan
ISBN1582460612
Once there lived a lovelorn prince whose mother decreed that he must marry by the end of the summer. So began the search to find the prince's perfect match and lo and behold... his name was Lee. You are cordially invited to join the merriest, most unexpected wedding of the year. King & King is a contemporary...
When Dad Killed Mom
AuthorJulius Lester
ISBN0152163050
Jenna and Jeremy knew their parents' marriage was in trouble. Mom and Dad didn't talk much, and when they did, they had to work really hard to be civil to each other. But no one could have predicted what would come next. The headline read, COLLEGE SHRINK KILLS WIFE, and suddenly everything changed. Now...
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