Life is Funny
10 best books like Life is Funny (E.R. Frank): The Arizona Kid, It's So Amazing!: A Book about Eggs, Sperm, Birth, Babies, and Families, Crazy, Daddy's Roommate, House of Dance, The Joy of Gay Sex, Athletic Shorts: Six Short Stories, We All Fall Down, The Drowning of Stephan Jones, Crazy Lady!
| 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 | Robie H. Harris |
| ISBN | 0763613215 |
It's So Amazing! was created in response to repeated requests from parents, teachers, librarians, and health professionals for an up-to-date book about sex and sexuality for children who were still too young for It's Perfectly Normal. Once again, the Bird and Bee are up to their antics, but this time...
„Hallo Leute. Ich heiße Benjamin Lebert, bin sechzehn Jahre alt, und ich bin ein Krüppel. Nur damit ihr es wißt. Ich dachte, es wäre von beiderseitigem Interesse.“ Mit diesen Worten stellt sich Benjamin Lebert an seinem ersten Schultag seinen neuen Mitschülern im Internat Schloß Neuseelen...
| Author | Michael Willhoite |
| ISBN | 1555831184 |
this book is FAIL.
well, let me clarify: this part is GREAT: "Mom says Daddy and Frank are gay./At first I didn't know what that meant. So she explained it./Being gay is just one more kind of love./ And love is the best kind of happiness." Lovely, appropriate, true.
but the illustrations...
| Author | Beth Kephart |
| ISBN | 0061429287 |
Rosie and her mother coexist in the same house as near strangers. Since Rosie's father abandoned them years ago, her mother has accomplished her own disappearing act, spending more time with her boss than with Rosie. Now faced with losing her grandfather too, Rosie begins to visit him every day, traveling...
| Author | Charles Silverstein |
| ISBN | 0060012749 |
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...
| Author | Chris Crutcher |
| ISBN | 0060507837 |
This short story collection serves as my introduction to Chris Crutcher as an author.
These stories are easy to read despite dealing with social situations and moral dilemmas: self-esteem, reaction to death and dying, prejudice and discrimination, or family relationships.
I...
| Author | Robert Cormier |
| ISBN | 0440215560 |
★ ★ ★ ★ 1/2
We All Fall Down marks only the second Young Adult book that I’ve ever read and the first I’ve read by choice. The first novel, not surprising, was by the same author, which I read more than a decade ago--maybe closer to two decades--when I was trapped some place (I don’t...
| Author | Bette Greene |
| ISBN | 0440226953 |
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...
| Author | Jane Leslie Conly |
| ISBN | 0064405710 |
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...
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,...
| Author | Lynda Madaras |
| ISBN | 1557044449 |
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...
| Author | Marilyn Reynolds |
| ISBN | 1929777051 |
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....
| Author | Brock Cole |
| ISBN | 1932425713 |
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,...
| Author | James Lincoln Collier |
| ISBN | 0440443237 |
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....
| Author | Esther Drill |
| ISBN | 0671041576 |
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...
April 3, 1778He may be just thirteen, but Jonathan knows he's ready to go to the war against the British. He can handle a gun. He yearns to battle for glory, just like his brother and cousin.
So when Jonathan hears the tavern bell toll, calling men to fight, he runs to join them. He doesn't realize...
| Author | Alice Childress |
| ISBN | 0698118545 |
Benjie can stop using heroin anytime he wants to. He just doesn't want to yet. Why would he want to give up something that makes him feel so good, so relaxed, so tuned-out? As Benjie sees it, there's nothing much to tune in for. School is a waste of time, and home life isn't much better. All Benjie wants is for...
| Author | Iona Opie |
| ISBN | 0763611999 |
"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...
| Author | Harry Allard |
| ISBN | 0808534998 |
A is for Allard
The Stupids Have a Ball by Harry Allard and James Marshall, as reinterpreted by Betty Lou from Circulation
Beware, Thar be... you know what? Forget it. Onward!
The book begins with a scathing indictment of the national education system as well as parenting as both children...
| Author | Linda de Haan |
| ISBN | 1582460612 |
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...
| Author | Julius Lester |
| ISBN | 0152163050 |
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...
| Author | Caroline B. Cooney |
| ISBN | 0590228544 |
How would you feel if your brother was killed by a terrorist,angry revengeful,clueless? In the book Billy is killed by package bomb in a subway station. The genre of this book is realistic fiction because it contains events that can possibly happen. What I thought of this book was a suspenseful beginning...
| Author | Louis Sachar |
| ISBN | 0679886222 |
The classic novel from Newbery Medalist and National Book Award winner Louis Sachar (Holes), with a brand-new cover!
David is only trying to be cool when he helps some of the popular kids steal Old Lady Bayfield’s cane. But when the plan backfires, he’s the one the “old witch” curses....
| Author | Heather Skyler |
| ISBN | 0393058700 |
A sun-baked, beautifully observed debut—a mother and daughter come of age in Las Vegas.
Helen is just fifteen, lanky and striking. She is a lifeguard at the pool at the Dunes hotel in Las Vegas, caught off guard by the new attention from men and boys, not quite sure of her own footing in the world....
