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81) Far from Xanadu
Author
Pub. Date
[2005]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.3 - AR Pts: 10
Description
In a small Kansas town, sixteen-year-old Mary-Elizabeth "Mike" Szabo tries to come to terms with her father's suicide and her own homosexuality.
83) Leroy
Author
Pub. Date
[2016]
Description
"Seventeen-year-old Leroy wants to study art and become a painter. Although he has good relationships with his family and friends, Leroy is far from being happy. With his older brother now in jail, Leroy feels even more trapped by his big secret. He is gay and doesn't dare come out and disrupt an already difficult time for his family. Leroy goes on an incredible--yet painful and terrifying--journey from Dallas to Taos, and from fear to love"--
Author
Series
Jess Jordan series volume 2
Pub. Date
[2005]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 8
Description
Jess knows her summer plans are ruined but little could she imagine the huge surprise that awaits her when she visits her dad's home for the first time in years.
85) Sprout
Author
Pub. Date
[2009]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 13
Description
Moving from Long Island to Kansas after his mother dies, a teenaged boy nicknamed Sprout is surprised to find new friends, a fascinating landscape, and romantic love.
Author
Pub. Date
[2008]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 9
Description
Yanked out of his city life and plunked down into a small Montana town with his father and his father's boyfriend, seventeen-year-old Ben, angry and resentful about the changed circumstances of his life, begins to notice that something is not quite right with the little boy next door and determines to do something about it.
87) My loose thread
Author
Pub. Date
©2002, ©2001.
Description
"At the heart of Dennis Cooper's novel lies Larry, a teenager wrestling not only with his sexuality and the implications of a physical relationship with his younger brother, but with the very point of his existence. He is numb to most of what surrounds him." "As the book opens, Larry has been paid $500 by an older student to kill a fellow pupil and retrieve the boy's notebook. It seems simple enough. However, once Larry ventures into the notebook,...
Author
Pub. Date
2016.
Description
"The mind-bending miniature historical epic is Sjn̤'s specialty, and Moonstone: The Boy Who Never Was is no exception. But it is also Sjn̤'s most realistic, accessible, and heartfelt work yet. It is the story of a young man on the fringes of a society that is itself at the fringes of the world--at what seems like history's most tumultuous, perhaps ultimate moment. Mǹi Steinn is queer in a society in which the idea of homosexuality is beyond the...
Author
Pub. Date
2013.
Description
"It's October 1990. Jacob Putnam is young and full of ideas. He's arrived a year too late to witness Czechoslovakia's revolution, but he still hopes to find its spirit, somehow. He discovers a country at a crossroads between communism and capitalism, and a picturesque city overflowing with a vibrant, searching sense of possibility. As the men and women Jacob meets begin to fall in love with one another, no one turns out to be quite the same as the...
Author
Pub. Date
[2008]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 10
Description
As Bobby Framingham, quarterback of his high school football team, finally acknowledges to himself that he is gay, events start to spin out of control when his sexual orientation is revealed in the student newspaper and then in the local press, and he learns that his father has cancer.
93) Will
Author
Pub. Date
2010.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 11
Description
Seventeen-year-old Will's behavior has been getting him in trouble at his all-boys school in Sydney, Australia, but his latest punishment, playing in the band for a musical production, gives him new insights into his fellow students and helps him cope with an incident he has tried to forget.
Author
Pub. Date
[2008]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 9
Description
Fifteen-year-old Abby Savage hopes that her five rules for falling in love will keep her from making the same mistakes as her mother and two older sisters--all unwed mothers who have slept with the same man, among others--while she also tries to help her best friend Cody admit that he is gay, and decide how she really feels about Cody's older brother, Jackson.
95) Wonnie
Author
Pub. Date
[2016]
Description
"Wonnie is a brave girl who came out at just thirteen years old. She found support in her parents and taught herself to live life to its fullest. Wonnie belongs to a friendly LGBT community in Philadelphia. She produces Come Out!, a podcast that has become a platform for gay-lesbian-trans teens. Her love life is also at its peak, and Rebecca, Wonnie's girlfriend, wants to get married. Funny, romantic and honest, this novel follows a day in the life...
96) The traitor game
Author
Pub. Date
[2008]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 12
Description
Fifteen-year-old Michael and his friend Francis both feel betrayed when someone at their private school learns of Evgard, a secret fantasy world they created together, but when a sadistic bully becomes involved in Michael's plan for revenge, the boys and Evgard itself face grave danger.
97) L.I.F.E. too
Author
Pub. Date
2022
Description
Rider Williams is a typical high school student. He has classes, plays guitar, and dreams of being a journalist. He's out at school, even if it wasn't his choice, and he's secretly dating a boy from the basketball team. Okay, so he's not your typical high school student. While Rider might be out, his relationship with Cameron Walker is not. Cam loves their time together. What he feels for Rider is something he's never felt before, but despite being...
Author
Pub. Date
2009, c2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 10
Description
Mitchell Wells may not survive eleventh grade. He really only has one friend. His normally decent grade point average is in limbo due to a slightly violent, somewhat inappropriate claymation film. And girls, well, does hanging out with his sister count? Then his friend reveals he's gay, one of the most popular girls in school decides she must date Mitchell, and--oh right--prom's coming up.