M+O 4EVR
10 best books like M+O 4EVR (Tonya Cherie Hegamin): Love & Lies: Marisol's Story, Gravity, The Necessary Hunger, Babyji, Touching Snow, Finding H.F., I Kiss Girls, The House You Pass on the Way, Gringa: A Contradictory Girlhood, Secret Lies
| Author | Ellen Wittlinger |
| ISBN | 1416916237 |
Marisol Guzman has deferred college for a year to accomplish two things: She will write a novel and she will fall in love. How hard could that be? She gets her very own apartment (with her high school best friend as roommate) and a waitressing job at a classic Harvard Square coffeehouse. When she enrolls...
| Author | Leanne Lieberman |
| ISBN | 1554690498 |
Ellie Gold is an orthodox Jewish teenager living in Toronto in the late eighties. Ellie has no doubts about her strict religious upbringing until she falls in love with another girl at her grandmother's cottage. Aware that homosexuality clashes with Jewish observance, Ellie feels forced to either...
| Author | Nina Revoyr |
| ISBN | 0312181426 |
As a star basketball player in her last year of high school, Nancy Takahiro's life is about to change forever. Faced with the college recruitment process and unsure of where her skill will take her, Nancy is not prepared for meeting Raina Webber, an All-State shooting guard whose passion for basketball...
| Author | Abha Dawesar |
| ISBN | 1400034566 |
Sexy, surprising, and subversively wise, Babyji is the story of Anamika Sharma, a spirited student growing up in Delhi. At school she is an ace at quantum physics. At home she sneaks off to her parents’ scooter garage to read the Kamasutra. Before long she has seduced an elegant older divorcée and...
| Author | M. Sindy Felin |
| ISBN | 1416917950 |
"The best way to avoid being picked on by high school bullies is to kill someone."
Karina has plenty to worry about on the last day of seventh grade: finding three Ds and a C on her report card again, getting laughed at by everyone again, being sent to the principal -- again. She'd like this to change,...
| 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 | Jacqueline Woodson |
| ISBN | 0142501913 |
Staggerlee is used to being alone. As the granddaughter of celebrities and the daughter of an interracial couple in an all-black town, she has become adept at isolating herself from curious neighbors. But then her cousin, Trout, comes to visit. Trout is exactly like Staggerlee wishes she could be:...
| 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 | Amy Dunne |
| ISBN | 1602829705 |
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....
| 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 | Kathe Koja |
| ISBN | 0374373825 |
A powerful drama about self-acceptance
Kit Webster is hiding a secret. Carma, his best friend, has already figured it out, and pushes him to audition for the high school play, Talk. When he's cast as the male lead, he expects to escape his own life for a while and become a different person. What he gets...
| Author | Brian Sloan |
| ISBN | 0689874383 |
Well, in summary, your fake date's in the bathroom with a hangover and a crispy hairdo, while my fake date is out wandering the Willard, searching for his heterosexuality or something.High school senior Cameron Hayes gets coerced into going to the prom with a girl, even though he'd rather be with his...
| Author | William Taylor |
| ISBN | 1555834930 |
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...
| 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 | 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 | 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...
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...
| 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 | 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...
| 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 | Alexandra Diaz |
| ISBN | 1606840347 |
When a rumor starts circulating that Tara's boyfriend Brent has been sleeping with one of the guy cheerleaders, the innuendo doesn't just hurt Tara. It marks the beginning of the end for an inseparable trio of friends. Tara's training for a marathon, but also running from her fear of abandonment after...
"Whatcha' lookin' at, Aurin? I thought you weren't interested in those guys," Kenney says."I'm not," I say.
There is a carefully constructed balance between Aurin and her friends Kenney and Fred. Kenney is usually the one who comes up with things to do -- her flair for the dramatic can make even...
Herself When She's Missing
| Author | Sarah Terez Rosenblum |
| ISBN | 1593764375 |
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...
| Author | Jeannine Garsee |
| ISBN | 1599903334 |
Perfectionist Shawna dates the right boys, gets good grades, and follows her father's every rule. So when her estranged lesbian mother dies, Shawna needs to figure out how to have the perfect reaction. But anger from being abandoned ten years ago, combined with the introduction of her mother's other...
