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10 best books like Gringa: A Contradictory Girlhood (Melissa Hart): Till Death Do Us Part, Hidden Voices: The Orphan Musicians of Venice, Damned Strong Love: The True Story of Willi G. and Stefan K., Finding Our Way, Finding H.F., Always Mackenzie, I Kiss Girls, Rosemary and Juliet, Big Big Sky, Queer 13: Lesbian And Gay Writers Recall Seventh Grade

Till Death Do Us Part
AuthorDennis E. Adonis
ISBN1482363429
Dennis Adonis is an Educational Author, Novelist, and Musician, in addition to currently serving as a Contributing Writer on Information Technology for Yahoo.com, and a Contributing Content Writer on current affairs for CNN News – International.

He also holds various levels of authoring...
Hidden Voices: The Orphan Musicians of Venice
AuthorPat Lowery Collins
ISBN0763639176
While studying under Vivaldi, three girls in a Venice orphanage forge their own notions of love in a sensuous, engrossing novel told in three narrative voices.

It is a longing and search for love that motivates three girls living in the Ospedale della Pietà, an orphanage renowned for its extraordinary...
Damned Strong Love: The True Story of Willi G. and Stefan K.
AuthorLutz van Dijk
ISBN0805037705
‘The Soul records only growth not time. This is why some people have such a great impact on our lives even though we only know them for a short time whereas others we’ve known a lifetime have no effect at all’. From Kung Fu.


This book is marketed as a gay autobiographical love story set...
Finding Our Way
AuthorJayson James
ISBN1480025852
Justin Parker and Derrick Wilson have been best friends since meeting back in middle school. Currently they are in their junior year at Chandler High School, and living the good life as teenagers. They have great girlfriends, plenty of close friends, their own cars, and parents who are well off. As nice...
Finding H.F.
AuthorJulia Watts
ISBN1555836224
It's been a while since I last read a YA having it all down to perfection: beautiful, insightful, hopeful, bonus a thrilling road trip (between two best friends with an incredibly strong bond). The old school, small town atmosphere is not depressing like Beauty of the Broken but remains both oppressing...
Always Mackenzie
AuthorKate Constable
I solemnly swear that I will never, ever be friends with Mackenzie Woodrow as long as we both shall live,' said Jem. 'Excellent,' said Mackenzie.Jem is a nerd, smart and forthright. Mackenzie is a golden girl, excelling at schoolwork, sport and drama, and popular with everyone. One night, at the Year...
I Kiss Girls
AuthorGina Harris
ISBN1603703543
Joanie's got all of the problems of an almost seventeen year old girl. She's trying to get her driver's license, her mom and dad are pressuring her about going to prom, and she never can seem to make it to the bus on time. Even worse, Joanie likes girls, not boys, and all of the girls in her hometown are pretty...
Rosemary and Juliet
AuthorJudy MacLean
ISBN1560234830
One reviewer gives two stars because this book is not a sociologically cutting-edge, realistic study of conservative Christian versus secular "liberal" sexual ethics--which, given the overt Shakesperean template, is like complaining that Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet did not realistically...
Big Big Sky
AuthorKristyn Dunnion
ISBN0889954046
2009 Rainbow List Nominee

On Resource Link's "Best of 2008" List

Sometimes it's harder to kill than pod might think. I crouch in the dark, stare into the manimal's shining eyes. It blinks right at me. It shakes in fear. Its thrumping furred chest quickens my own pulse. The thing wave-sends...
Queer 13: Lesbian And Gay Writers Recall Seventh Grade
AuthorClifford Chase
ISBN0688171613
Forward by Dale PeckSeventh grade: You remember it, don't you? Sweet sixteen seemed impossibly far away, an elegant, unattainable future. All that we had was the doldrums of thirteen -- not so sweet, and definitely queer.

Now, some of the finest observers of the gay experience take us back...
Secret Lies
AuthorAmy Dunne
ISBN1602829705
Would you face your biggest fear, to save the one you love?

Nicola Jackson escapes from her abuser, only to realize she has no one to turn to and nowhere to go. In a twist of fate, she accidentally bumps into Jenny O’Connor, the most popular girl at school. They strike up an unlikely friendship....
The Blue Lawn
AuthorWilliam Taylor
ISBN1555834930
David is 15 and the star player of his school's rugby team. Sixteen-year-old Theo is an outsider, not altogether likable, and not particularly interested in making friends. Initial hostility turns to an unlikely friendship, masking a growing attraction neither boy understands. A powerful novel...
The Summer of Love
AuthorDebbie Drechsler
ISBN1896597653
Widely acknowledged as one of the great female cartoonists for her expressive and candid style, Drechsler's GN is an achingly true portrait of life as a girl. Lili and her sister Pearl encounter all the triumphs and cruelties of teenage life when they move to a boring suburb and they search for new friends....
Unborn
AuthorRose Christo
Kerry Thompson is not supposed to exist. Kerry Thompson was aborted nineteen years ago--and survived. Nineteen years later, Kerry contends with a myriad of health conditions and a heart full of hatred.

A stint in the hospital sees Kerry cross paths with Sahara, a quirky little girl living...
Night Sky Mine
AuthorMelissa Scott
ISBN0312861567
Melissa Scott's award-winning work is known for its vividly imagined settings that explore humanity's far future. IN NIGHT SKY MINE, young Ista Kelly is a foundling, the only survivor of a pirate raid on an asteroid mine. In a future where one cannot live without an official identity, this is the story...
I Don't Remember You
AuthorStephanie Lennox
"I Don't Remember You" is the story of a sporty, outgoing girl named Becca Jameson, whose life suddenly gets put on hold as she recovers from a horrific car accident. With the help of her brother Harry, her life soon clambers back onto the right track, however, after a while a peculiar girl stumbles back...
Phantoms of the Otherworld
AuthorZoe Reed
Adjusting hasn't been easy for Kyla in her new life as a werewolf. After a nearly catastrophic loss of control, her and Camille decide to get help from the Pack in Oregon.

The girls soon learn that human kidnappings have been on the rise, and Otherworld overseers from the Supernatural Council...
Awake
AuthorTracey Pennington
ISBN0982826761
A girl trapped in a war between her school, her church, and her own family. A boy facing the pain of injustice and prejudice in the same rush as new love. A town shocked by the death of a young person, while one alone knows why. A loner fighting a losing battle inside, terrified by society, longing for respect.Poignant,...
Bow To Me
AuthorG.C. Julien
Alternate Cover Edition for B00RC6KJ3I.

Kaitlyn Noles has always been the kind of girl who studies hard and keeps to herself. But when Samantha Boward—a black-haired, bright-eyed beauty with an attitude fiercer than her studded leather boots—is transferred to Loshano High School,...
Fairy
AuthorC. Kennedy
THIS STORY IS A FREE READ

A gay kid, a monstrous bully, and a badass fairy.

Meriadoc McDaniel wants to kill his parents. How they could name him after a hobbit is beyond him. Merry is shy, spineless, a geek of humongous proportions, and gay. Everyone at school calls him Merry the Fairy....
Someone Like You
AuthorTimothy James Beck
ISBN0758210353
At the Mall of the Universe, you can get anything you want. Marc Jacobs suits. Hugo Boss suits, Food, Drinks, Dry cleaning. A room at the five-star hotel or a lane at the bowling alley. Of course, something things are harder to come by just ask...

Vienna. She's one beautiful sister who is not going...
Someone Is Killing the Gay Boys of Verona
AuthorMark A. Roeder
Someone is killing the gay boys of Verona, Indiana, and only one gay youth stands in the way. He finds himself pitted against powerful foes, but finds allies in places he did not expect.

Sixteen-year-old Sean sets out on a quest that takes him into the supernatural and beyond. A haunted mansion,...
Herself When She's Missing
AuthorSarah Terez Rosenblum
ISBN1593764375
Cry Wolf saved Andrea's life, or that's how she likes to tell it. Forever in search of spiritual fulfillment, Andrea has rejected everything from religion to eating disorders, in favor of "I'm-with-the-band" style fanaticism, all centered on Cry Wolf, a brother-sister folk/rock duo with an eccentric...
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