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10 best books like Sexy (Joyce Carol Oates): Swimming in the Monsoon Sea, The Arizona Kid, My Father's Scar, Hear Us Out!: Lesbian and Gay Stories of Struggle, Progress, and Hope, 1950 to the Present, Hidden, GLBTQ*: The Survival Guide for Queer & Questioning Teens, Alt Ed, The Private Thoughts of Amelia E. Rye, The Drowning of Stephan Jones, Target

Swimming in the Monsoon Sea
AuthorShyam Selvadurai
ISBN0887768342
Nominated for the Governor General's Literary Awards 2005, (Children's Literature, Text)


The setting is Sri Lanka, 1980, and it is the season of monsoons. Fourteen-year-old Amrith is caught up in the life of the cheerful, well-to-do household in which he is being raised by his vibrant...
The Arizona Kid
AuthorRon Koertge
ISBN0763626953
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:...
My Father's Scar
AuthorMichael Cart
Eighteen year-old Andy Logan has finally made it to his first year of college, but not without some struggle. As he tries to settle in this new environment, he cannot help but recall the events and experiences that have led him there.

It is in these recollections that we meet a vast array of people--those...
Hear Us Out!: Lesbian and Gay Stories of Struggle, Progress, and Hope, 1950 to the Present
AuthorNancy Garden
ISBN0374317593
What was it like being young and gay during the closeted 1950s, the exuberant beginnings of the modern gay rights movement in the 1970s, or the frightening outbreak of HIV and AIDS in the 1980s? In this unique history, Nancy Garden uses both fact and fiction to explore just what it has meant to be young and...
Hidden
AuthorTomas Mournian
ISBN0758251319
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...
GLBTQ*: The Survival Guide for Queer & Questioning Teens
AuthorKelly Huegel
ISBN1575421267
The teen years are full of challenges.

For gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgendered, and questioning teens, these challenges can include prejudice, discrimination, rejection, reprisals, insensitive remarks (even among friends and families) and, sometimes, violence.

But being...
Alt Ed
AuthorCatherine Atkins
ISBN0142402354
Susan Calloway, bullied and overweight, faces daily humiliation at the hands of her classmates - and she's had enough. With her anger about to reach the boiling point, Susan lands in an alternative education class, a sort of group therapy for the nearly expelled.

School is bad enough, but facing...
The Private Thoughts of Amelia E. Rye
AuthorBonnie Shimko
ISBN0374361312
“All a person needs in life is one true friend.†So says Grandpa Thomas, the only member of Amelia’s family who cares about her one bit. That true friend finally arrives when Fancy Nelson, the first Negro kid Amelia has ever seen in person, walks into her fourth grade classroom....
The Drowning of Stephan Jones
AuthorBette Greene
ISBN0440226953
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...
Target
AuthorKathleen Jeffrie Johnson
ISBN0761327908
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...
Echo
AuthorKate Morgenroth
ISBN1416914382
How can I know what's going to happen?

But somehow he did know. The feeling was like déjà vu but stronger...and scarier. It told him that without a doubt something was going to happen. And it was going to be bad.

***

In the year since Justin's younger brother, Mark, died in a...
Autobiography of My Dead Brother
AuthorWalter Dean Myers
ISBN0060582936
Printz Award winner Walter Dean Myers has written a realistic urban novel that probes a fatal crisis in the life of two boys. Jesse, the book's narrator, and Rise are best friends, but as time passes, Rise grows increasingly alienated and unpredictable. Living in a neighborhood where gang fights and...
Head Case
AuthorSarah Aronson
ISBN1596432144
ONE MISTAKE.  ONE BAD NIGHT.  ONE TOO MANY DRINKS.  A powerful and heartbreaking debut novel about a guy who had it all...until he drank that fifth beer and got into the car. Frank Marder is a head, paralyzed from the neck down, and it's his fault.  He was drinking.  He was driving.  Now Frank can't...
Contents Under Pressure
AuthorLara Deloza
ISBN0440237874
A fresh, honest look at the difficult choices and unexpected joys in a girl’s life under pressure.

Lucy Doyle is about to explode. She’s sure her name might as well be Loser because she‘s never, ever been kissed. To make matters worse, nearly all of her friends have left her behind for boys....
Light Years
AuthorTammar Stein
ISBN0375830235
He went to school to learn how to kill me. The Israeli girl who ruined his life. Seven people were killed instead. A single mother of two. A computer programmer. Two college students. A grandmother and her four-year-old grandson sharing an ice cream. And Dov, my boyfriend, my heart, the man I wanted to...
A Room on Lorelei Street
AuthorMary E. Pearson
ISBN0805076670
Zoe's arms prickle. She turns, trying to take it all in. The ache inside returns. It is not for her. It is too much. A real room with real floors and walls. A room for sleeping, and reading and dancing and . . . in her imagination she has pictured the room, but she has never pictured herself in it.

Can...
Anything But Ordinary
AuthorValerie Hobbs
ISBN0374303746
From the moment their romance begins in eighth grade, Winifred and Bernie are individualists. They pride themselves on being different, and have each other for support through the tough years of high school. So when they consider college, they send off for the same catalogs, promising never to separate....
Things Left Unsaid: A Novel in Poems
AuthorStephanie Hemphill
ISBN0786837454
Sarah used to be the good girl. The one who always had her hand raised in class, always obeyed her parents.
Until she met Robin. Once Robin comes into the picture, Sarah's life changes. Her closet begins to fill with black clothes. Good grades become something to be studiously avoided. And maintaining...
Out of Order
AuthorA.M. Jenkins
ISBN0064473740
Colt's perfect life crumbles when his girlfriend breaks up with him and looming academic ineligibility threatens his baseball career. For a guy who gets by on his good looks and talent with a bat, Colt knows that he could be facing his toughest challenge ever.

Just as she did in her acclaimed...
Invisible Writer: A Biography of Joyce Carol Oates
AuthorGreg Johnson
ISBN0452279712
Johnson reveals little-known facts about Oates's personal and family history and debunks many of the myths that have arisen about this brilliant, enigmatic woman. Johnson takes readers from Oates's impoverished childhood in upstate New York and the birth of her autistic sister through Oates's...
Upstream
AuthorMelissa Lion
ISBN0375839542
Marty’s small town in Alaska is the most beautiful place in the world. There she and her beloved boyfriend, Steven, can walk through fields of fireweed, explore the wild, and tie pink floozy fishing lures to catch the salmon that swim upstream. But when she starts her senior year, Marty must return...
New Rules of High School
AuthorBlake Nelson
ISBN0670036447
I had thought there was a lot of freedom being a good student, being trusted, being given special privileges, but that was nothing compared to the freedom I felt now. Once people gave up on you, once people wrote you off, now that was freedom.

Max Caldwell is tired. He's tired of having a "perfect"...
Sandpiper
AuthorEllen Wittlinger
ISBN1416936513
"You shouldn't expect much of him. He's...he's damaged." Damaged. What a horrible word. Like a car after a wreck...It was how I'd been feeling myself. Slightly ruined, a big mess.


Lately there have been a lot of guys in Sandpiper's life. In the past year, she's gone through eight or nine...
Girls Dinner Club
AuthorJessie Elliot
ISBN0060595418
ingredients one rainy afternoon
one huge crush on a boy
a few secrets
a kitchen, preferably somewhere in Brooklyn
fresh laughter -- as much as you want
one or two broken hearts
a pinch of salt
a good friend -- or even better, three

Junie's

The love of Junie's...
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