Bait
10 best books like Bait (Alex Sanchez): Tale of Two Summers, Leave Myself Behind, The Order of the Poison Oak, Chulito, With or Without You, Love Is In The Title, Hidden, In Mike We Trust, Thinking Straight, The Last Exit to Normal
| Author | Brian Sloan |
| ISBN | 0689874391 |
08:06 p.m. Saturday 07.29.06> You are in L-O-V-E. Notice how I have no hesitation spelling it. At all. Reason? That was just the wildest entry you've posted! Ever....You are so seeing the world through the eyes of L-O-V-E. A ten-year best friendship is put to the test when Chuck and Hal spend their...
| Author | Bart Yates |
| ISBN | 0758203497 |
Noah York is a closeted gay teenager with a foul mouth, a critical disposition, and plenty of material for his tirades. After his father dies, Noah's mother, a temperamental poet, takes a teaching job in a small New Hampshire town, far from Chicago and the only world Noah has known. While Noah gets along...
The Order of the Poison Oak
| Author | Brent Hartinger |
| ISBN | 0984679448 |
Book 2 in the Lambda Award-winning Russel Middlebrook Series.
Summer camp is different from high school. Something about spending the night. Things happen.
Geography Club's Russel Middlebrook is back, and he and his friends are off to work as counselors at a summer camp. Brent Hartinger's...
| Author | Charles Rice-González |
| ISBN | 1593501722 |
Set against a vibrant South Bronx neighborhood and the queer youth culture of Manhattan's piers, Chulito is a coming-out, coming-of-age love story of a sexy, tough, hip hop–loving, young Latino man and the colorful characters in his vibrant neighborhood. Chulito, which means "cutie," is one of...
| Author | Brian Farrey |
| ISBN | 1442406992 |
Eighteen-year-old Evan and his best friend, Davis, get beaten up for being loners. For being gay. For just being themselves. But as rough as things often seem, at least Evan can take comfort in his sweet, sexy boyfriend Erik - whom he’s kept secret from everyone for almost a year.
Then Evan...
Luke requests songs for the late show with Roscoe. Songs that mean something to him and the people around him. Lately he has been requesting songs for the boy he watches from afar. The gorgeous dark haired blue eyed captain of the football team, Cameron.
One night, and the last request, and...
| Author | Tomas Mournian |
| ISBN | 0758251319 |
When Ahmed's parents send him to a residential treatment center known as Serenity Ridge, it's with one goal: to "fix" their son, at any cost. But eleven months of abuse and overmedication leave him desperate to escape. And when the opportunity comes, Ahmed runs away to San Francisco.
There, he moves...
| Author | P.E. Ryan |
| ISBN | 0060858133 |
Honesty.
He wanted it. He craved it.
He could barely remember what it was. When Garth's uncle comes to visit, he's like a breath of very needed fresh air. Mike is laid-back and relaxed—and willing to accept Garth for who he is, without question. For the first time in a long while, Garth feels...
| Author | Robin Reardon |
| ISBN | 0758219288 |
I tried to read this book but I’m on page 110 and I asked myself why on Earth I am doing this to myself. So let’s stop.
Why? It’s a story about a gay teen, Taylor, who is also a believer and whose extra strict homophobic parents enroll him to a special correction unit where Taylor is supposed...
| Author | Michael Harmon |
| ISBN | 0375940987 |
It’s true: After 17-year-old Ben’s father announces he’s gay and the family splits apart, Ben does everything he can to tick him off: skip school, smoke pot, skateboard nonstop, get arrested. But he never thinks he’ll end up yanked out of his city life and plunked down into a small Montana town...
| Author | April Lurie |
| ISBN | 0385736754 |
Noah Nordstrom has been dissing the religious beliefs of his father, who hosts a popular Christian radio show and whom Noah accuses of spreading hate. When two local gay teens are murdered, Noah’s anti-evangelism intensifies—he’s convinced that the killer is a caller on his dad’s program.
Then...
| Author | Kathleen Jeffrie Johnson |
| ISBN | 0761327908 |
Why had the men chosen him? Savagely violated by two strangers, sixteen-year-old Grady West retreats into silence. Some hells just can't be shared. Searing and powerful, Target shows that people can go through unspeakable things and emerge whole-- and sometimes your friends can save you. Another...
| Author | Rigoberto González |
| ISBN | 1593501064 |
As they embark on their final year of high school, the Fierce Foursome—Maui, Trini, Isaac, and Liberace—decide to do something big, something that will memorialize their friendships for when they all go their separate ways and begin their new “adult” lives.
Already accustomed...
Outtakes of A Walking Mistake chronicles the romantic entanglements of an 'out' gay 16 yr. old boy named Tyler Morris, who auditions for a student film to win the heart of Billy Greske, the school's celebrity thespian. The plan seems promising until Tyler’s bipolar best friend Jenny offers love advice...
| Author | Eowyn Wood |
| ISBN | 0977873803 |
LOVE. SEX. POWER.
They seem like opposites: River's a troubled teen who loves to fight; Brian is a piano prodigy who attempted suicide. But together they forge a bond beyond anything they imagined.
River and Brian run away with dreams of escaping their abusive homes and exploring...
| Author | Josh Aterovis |
| ISBN | 1933720344 |
Killian Kendall is used to being overlooked, even in his own family. That's about to change. With the arrival of a new kid at school, Killian's whole world is about to be turned upside down. The new guy is openly gay and, for reasons he can't really understand, Killian finds himself drawn to him. When the...
| Author | J. Tomas |
| ISBN | 1603706844 |
Sixteen-year-old Jacob Smithson has a temper. He's picked on because he likes boys, and fighting gets him kicked out of public school. As a last resort, his parents place him in St. Thomas Aquinas Catholic Boarding School for Boys.
At his first mass at St. Thomas he sees Avery Dendritch, a senior...
| Author | Melvin Burgess |
| ISBN | 1842701819 |
His most substantial book to date, this compelling story of a teenager caught in a corrupt 1980s Care Home is a powerful study of a particularly highly-charged and distressing subject. Handled with great sensitivity and engrossing narrative drive, it is an important addition to the understanding...
| Author | Jeff Erno |
| ISBN | 1613720890 |
Every day, all over the country, teenagers struggle with the realities of bullying. Tormented, ridiculed, and beaten—simply for being who they are—these teens face alienation, humiliation, and even the explicit assertion that they have somehow brought this upon themselves, that they should...
| Author | Lee Bantle |
| ISBN | 0805081224 |
David Dahlgren, a high-school senior, finds solace in running with the track team; he's a fast runner, and he enjoys the camaraderie. But team events become a source of tension when he develops a crush on one of his teammates, Sean. Scared to admit his feelings, David does everything he can to suppress...
| Author | J. Roman |
| ISBN | 1613725523 |
For gay teens in the South, Erwin High School is as good as it gets. The prevailing liberalism means being gay doesn’t have to be the focus of your life—which frees up seventeen-year-old Jason Strummer to take on the role of bully. Jason understands his beauty and power and has a reputation to match...
