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10 best books like Sparks: The Epic, Completely True Blue, (Almost) Holy Quest of Debbie (S.J. Adams): Love & Lies: Marisol's Story, Gravity, My Father's Scar, Sugar Rush, Sister Mischief, It's Our Prom (So Deal with It), I Kiss Girls, Rosemary and Juliet, God Loves Hair, Jumpstart the World

Love & Lies: Marisol's Story
AuthorEllen Wittlinger
ISBN1416916237
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...
Gravity
AuthorLeanne Lieberman
ISBN1554690498
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...
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...
Sugar Rush
AuthorJulie Burchill
ISBN0330415832
Saucy, shimmering, loud and larger than life - come get your sugar fix! It's survival of the fittest at Ravendene Comprehensive - the terrifying teenage jungle for which Kim Lewis must trade her safe, posh private school. But help is at hand - in the unlikely form of the rude, raucous, toxic and tantalising...
Sister Mischief
AuthorLaura Goode
ISBN0763646407
A gay suburban hip-hopper freaks out her Christian high school -- and falls in love -- in this righteously funny and totally tender YA debut, for real.

Listen up: You’re about to get rocked by the fiercest, baddest all-girl hip-hop crew in the Twin Cities -- or at least in the wealthy, white,...
It's Our Prom (So Deal with It)
AuthorJulie Anne Peters
When Azure's principal gives her the chance to turn the school's traditional (and boring) senior prom into an event that will appeal to everyone, not just the jocks and cheerleaders, she jumps at the opportunity. Soon Azure manages to convince her best friends, Luke and Radhika, to join the prom committee...
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...
God Loves Hair
AuthorVivek Shraya
ISBN0986551201
God Loves Hair is a collection of 20 short stories following a tender, intellectual, and curious child as he navigates complex realms of sexuality, gender, racial politics, religion, and belonging.

Told with the poignant insight and honesty that only the voice of a young mind can convey,...
Jumpstart the World
AuthorCatherine Ryan Hyde
ISBN0375866655
Elle is a loner. She doesn’t need people. Which is a good thing, because she’s on her own: she had to move into her own apartment so her mother’s boyfriend won’t have to deal with her.

Then she meets Frank, the guy who lives next door. He’s older and has a girlfriend, but Elle can’t stop...
Kicked Out
AuthorSassafras Lowrey
ISBN0978597362
In the U.S., 40% of homeless youth identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender or queer (LGBTQ). Kicked Out brings together the voices of current and former homeless LGBTQ youth and tells the forgotten stories of some of our nation's most vulnerable citizens. Diverse contributors share stories...
f2m:the boy within
AuthorHazel Edwards
ISBN1876462906
School-leaver Skye plays guitar in an all-female Chronic Cramps band. Joining the punk/indie scene is easier than FTM (female to male) transitioning: from Skye to Finn, from girl to transman. 'f2m;the boy within' was the first YA novel about transitioning co-written by an ftm. It has also inspired...
The White Bicycle
AuthorBeverley Brenna
ISBN0889954836
The White Bicycle is the third stand-alone title in the Wild Orchid series about a young woman with Asperger's Syndrome. This installment chronicles Taylor Jane's travels to the south of France where she spends a summer babysitting for the Phoenix family. Including flashbacks into Taylor's earliest...
Money Boy
AuthorPaul Yee
ISBN1554980941
An American Library Association Youth Media Award Stonewall Honor Book


Ray Liu knows he should be happy. He lives in a big suburban house with all the latest electronic gadgets, and even finds plenty of time to indulge in his love of gaming. He needs the escape. It’s tough getting grades...
The End
AuthorNora Olsen
ISBN1610401166
When World War Three breaks out, seventeen-year-old Julia is on a school trip to Amsterdam, while fourteen-year-old Marly is trapped in a prison for delinquent girls. They both discover magical amulets, and try their best to save themselves and those around them. But it looks like their best will not...
From the Notebooks of Melanin Sun
AuthorJacqueline Woodson
ISBN0590458817
Jacqueline Woodson's remarkable, award-winning story of a boy coming to grips a sudden change in his family.

Melanin Sun's mother has some big news: she's in love with a woman. Now he has many decisions to make: Should he stand by his mother even though it could mean losing his friends? Should...
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...
Breathing Underwater
AuthorLu Vickers
ISBN1555839649
“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...
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...
The Mariposa Club
AuthorRigoberto González
ISBN1593501064
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...
Name Me Nobody
AuthorLois-Ann Yamanaka
ISBN0786814667
Had to read it for book club. Wouldn't have picked it otherwise, and probably won't read anything else by this author. Definitely would not recommend it.

Having lived in Hawaii for several years, I understood most of the pidgin/Hawaiian terms (like pau, haole, and ohana) and could even relate...
Gemini Bites
AuthorPatrick Ryan
ISBN0545221285
One of the strangest (and funniest) love triangles ever to hit YA fiction, when a pair of twins (one boy, one girl) both fall for the boy who moves in with them…who may or may not be a vampire.

Judy and Kyle Renneker are sixteen-year-old fraternal twins in a rambling family of nine. They have a...
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,...
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...
Putting Makeup on the Fat Boy
AuthorBil Wright
ISBN1416939962
Carlos Duarte knows that he's fabulous. He's got a better sense of style than half the fashionistas in New York City, and he can definitely apply makeup like nobody's business. He may only be in high school, but when he lands the job of his dreams--makeup artist at the FeatureFace counter in Macy's--he's...
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