Happy Endings Are All Alike

Author	Norma Klein
ISBN	0449245209

I first read this book in the early 80s when I was a young teenager and I adored it then. It's about Tatiana, a 14-year-old New Yorker, who stars in her first movie and is navigating her blooming sexuality. I loved all of Norma Klein's books and so it was interesting for me to read Domestic Arrangements again...

Author	Nancy Garden
ISBN	0595347673

Lambda Literary Award winner Good Moon Rising is about two young women who fall in love while rehearsing a school play, realize they're gay, and resist a homophobic campaign against them. Good Moon Rising, both a New York Public Library Book for the Teenage and a Notable Children's Trade Book in the Field...

Author	Lynn Galli
ISBN	1598009591

Fantasies can sometimes mess up the real thing.

Austy Nunziata has spent two years pining for her married best friend and about the same amount of time berating herself for it. In fact, she's so adept at trying to stamp out her feelings that she could probably write a How-To guide on the...

Author	Ron Koertge
ISBN	0763626953

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:...

Author

Jane Futcher

Lesbianism! It's just like sisterhood!

Okay. Look. If this book hadn't been published well before my birth, I would say that it was written with me in mind: boarding school! Possible lesbians! 1960s historical fiction! It's a freaking trifecta book*, which are about as rare as unicorns.

But,...

Author

Rose Christo

"I never want to hurt you. You get that, right?"

Skylar knows Rafael wants something very specific from him--and Skylar wants him to have it. Convincing Rafael is going to take some serious innovation. Skylar lost his voice twelve years ago to the Nettlebush Indian Reserve's first and last...

Author	Julia Watts
ISBN	1555836224

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...

Author	Gina Harris
ISBN	1603703543

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...

Author	Judy MacLean
ISBN	1560234830

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...

Author	Clifford Chase
ISBN	0688171613

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...

Author	Melissa Hart
ISBN	1580052940

Torn between the high socioeconomic status of her father and the bohemian lifestyle of her mother, Melissa Hart tells a compelling story of contradiction in this coming-of-age memoir. Set in 1970s Southern California, Gringa is the story of a young girl conflicted by two extremes. On the one hand there’s...

Author	Bonnie Shimko
ISBN	0897335112

Lizzy McMann, A feisty twelve-year-old, lives with her immature mother and Manny, her father (she thinks) in a fleabag Phoenix hotel. One night, Manny's sudden announcement that he wants a divorce forces mother and daughter to move to upstate New York to live with Lizzy's grandmother and grandfather—a...

Author	Amy Sonnie
ISBN	1555835589

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...

Author	Lu Vickers
ISBN	1555839649

“A hilarious and daring portrait of growing up gay in the American South. One roots for Lily as one does for Huck Finn. This beautifully written debut novel explores the fragile links between a girl’s growing awareness of her sexuality and the far-reaching effects this has upon her family.”—Pamela...

Author	Debbie Drechsler
ISBN	1896597653

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....

Author	Deborah Hautzig
ISBN	0394820460

val and chloe are both new at their swanky prep school, and fast become besties. as they grow closer and share their experiences, they become attracted to each other in a way that is confusing and frightening for both of them. are they perverts? lesbians? just curious? in denial?

i found this...

Author

Stephanie 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...

Author	Tom Dolby
ISBN	0758222580

This book really took me by surprise.

Four years ago, I read Dolby's first novel, The Trouble Boy, and while I enjoyed it, felt that it hewed so closely to much of what's already out there in gay literature that it failed to leave a lasting impression. But with The Sixth Form Dolby makes a quantum...

Author	Mark A. Roeder
ISBN	0595298060

"The Summer of My Discontent" is a tapestry of tales delving into life as a gay teen in a small Midwestern town. Dane is a sixteen-year-old runaway determined to start a new life of daring, love, and sex--no matter the cost to himself, or others. His actions bring him to the brink of disaster and only those...

Author	Tracey Pennington
ISBN	0982826761

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,...

Author

C. 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....

Author	Mia Kerick
ISBN	1623805104

After struggling through dishonesty, betrayal, and the kind of pasts they’d like to leave behind them, Brett Taylor and Cory Butana are back together and starting to build a new life. Brett has a good job. Cory has started college. But not everything goes the way they planned.

Still recovering...

Author	Jennifer Lavoie
ISBN	1602827435

Seventeen-year-old twins, Andrew and Andrea Morris, have always been close. They share everything—from their friends to a room—and they both enjoy star positions on their high school’s soccer teams. All’s right with the twins...or is it?

When new student Ryder Coltrane moves...

Author	Ellen Conford
ISBN	0316153540

I read this book in middle school, and I found it again at St. Vincent De Paul. Loved it! Laura feels that she's ordinary. She gets straight As in school, but feels that isn't enough. Her sister, Jill, bowls and has been in every high school play. Brother Douglas is on the debate team and plays piano. Dennis,...