The Summer Of My Discontent

10 best books like The Summer Of My Discontent (Mark A. Roeder): Finding Our Way, One Boy's Shadow, Eight Seconds, Teenage Rewrite, Another Dumb Jock, A Place To Run, A Really Nice Prom Mess, The Blue Lawn, The Sixth Form, A Question of Manhood

AuthorJayson James
ISBN1480025852
Justin Parker and Derrick Wilson have been best friends since meeting back in middle school. Currently they are in their junior year at Chandler High School, and living the good life as teenagers. They have great girlfriends, plenty of close friends, their own cars, and parents who are well off. As nice...
AuthorRoss A. McCoubrey
ISBN1475903588
Fifteen-year-old Caleb Mackenzie doesn't put up a fight when his father announces the family is moving to Stapeton, Nova Scotia. In fact, Caleb looks forward to a fresh start in the scenic little area. Their new home, Wakefield House, sports large rooms, a big barn where Caleb can work on cars, and acres...
AuthorJean Ferris
ISBN0152023674
Each ride on the bucking bull is a lesson in pain. Each landing on the packed dirt is a jarring reminder of reality. Rodeo camp is a tough way to spend a summer, but John is having the time of his life. No clingy girlfriends, no nagging moms, no annoying sisters. Just him and the guys and the biggest bulls he's...
AuthorBrandon Williams
Every year millions of teenagers graduate from high school, embrace adulthood, and go on to lead happy, productive lives. That’s great and all, but Justin Davis thinks this is a complete load.

Withdrawn and perpetually anxious, Justin begins senior year completely overwhelmed by thoughts...
AuthorJeff Erno
In Dumb Jock, Jeff and Brett fall in love, but their relationship is not without challenges. Brett’s a football star, and Jeff is the classic nerd. Their coming of age and coming out story is set in the 1980s, and they face many obstacles. Yet their love for each other is strong, and they finally get their...
A Place To Run
AuthorDiane Adams
ISBN1920484752
School’s out and Alex is home, but things aren’t going as smoothly as he hoped. Jared is hesitant about advancing their relationship and fixated on the fact that Alex’s mother doesn’t know he’s gay. When she discovers the truth, her extreme reaction drives Alex back to school early.

Jared...
AuthorBrian Sloan
ISBN0689874383
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...
AuthorWilliam Taylor
ISBN1555834930
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...
AuthorTom Dolby
ISBN0758222580
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...
AuthorRobin Reardon
November 1972. The Vietnam War is rumored to be drawing to a close, and for sixteen-year-old Paul Landon, the end can't come soon enough. The end will mean his older brother Chris, the family's golden child, returning home from the Army for good. But while home on leave, Chris entrusts Paul with a secret:...
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,...
AuthorJohn H. Ames
And you thought last year was full of drama, suspense and romance? You ain’t seen nothing yet!

After a summer of love, hard work and…ahem…cohabitation, Nick and John are beginning their senior year. However, putting the memory of last year’s turbulent events at Elite High behind...
AuthorTimothy James Beck
ISBN0758203233
From Timothy James Beck, the acclaimed author of It Had To Be You, comes his second delightfully witty, thoroughly heartfelt novel as he introduces a Midwestern jock-slash-computer geek who comes to the big city in search of love, career, friendship, and a chance to find out if...

He s The One

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AuthorJ.P. Barnaby
Little Boy Lost, Book Two. Jamie is gone. Brian's secret has been revealed. Brian McAllister's story continues as he tries to cope with the loss of his best friend and soul mate amid the alienation and ridicule of his classmates. When hatred turns to violence, Brian narrows his focus to two goals: surviving...
AuthorJosh Aterovis
ISBN1933720344
Killian Kendall is used to being overlooked, even in his own family. That's about to change. With the arrival of a new kid at school, Killian's whole world is about to be turned upside down. The new guy is openly gay and, for reasons he can't really understand, Killian finds himself drawn to him. When the...
Strings Attached
AuthorNick Nolan
ISBN1419628895
Winner! ForeWord Magazine's Gay/Lesbian Book of the Year, 2006. Closeted teenager Jeremy is sent to live with wealthy relatives after his mother enters rehab. Struggling to fit into the posh world of Ballena Beach, Jeremy joins the high school swim team, dates a popular girl, and begins to think he...
Wrestling With Desire
AuthorD.H. Starr
Derek Thompson is a senior, a wrestler, and has a secret. He’s gay.Scott Thayer is a new student who’s just moved to Cambridge, Massachusetts from Iowa. On the first day of school Derek and Scott meet, and their lives change in an instant.As Derek and Scott discover the things they have in common,...
Ordinary Champions
AuthorHayden Thorne
Book 3 of the Masks series follows Eric’s adventures as a newly-transformed supervillain sidekick. Taking advantage of Eric’s relationship with Peter, the Devil’s Trill uses him for a shield against the superheroes. In the meantime, new villains and a new, covert vigilante-like group appear,...
End of the Beginning
AuthorJohn Goode
Not too long ago, Brad Greymark outed himself to his high school and the rest of the town of Foster, Texas, with a fairly obvious public display of affection. Now what? Brad had thought being Foster’s favorite son wasn’t that important, but when it comes time to choose between high school fame and...
Language Lessons
AuthorJay Bell
At first, I didn't warm to the protagonist, Joey, who came across as shallow and image-obsessed with an over-the-top sense of fashion. I also thought his brazenness in approaching a stranger with a view to having sex - and the ease with which he was able to have casual sex with such a stranger - bizarre and...
Rounding Third
AuthorWalter G. Meyer
ISBN9780982132
Rounding Third is the story of Rob Wardell, a seventeen-year old who feels like he doesn't quite fit in anywhere--not at home, not at school and not on the baseball field. The small, shy boy stays on the high school baseball team only to please his father since he knows he will never get to play. He’s living...
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