LGBTQ
305.9 SUT
Sutton, Roger. Hearing Us Out: Voices from the Gay and Lesbian Community. Boston: Little, Brown, 1994.
Interviews with gays and lesbians who speak from many perspectives.
306.7 PAR
Pardes, Bronwen. Doing It Right. New York: Simon Pulse, 2007.
Provides information and advice to teens to young adults on the issues of sex, STDs, ethics, teen pregnancy, and other topics.
306.76 ALS
Alsenas, Linas. Gay America: Struggle for Equality. New York: Amulet Books, 2008.
An examination of gay and lesbian life in the United States since the colonial period that discusses the Kinsey study, the
McCarthy witch hunts of the 1950s, the Beat generation, gay marriage, and other related topics.
306.76 CRI
Crisis: 40 Stories Revealing the Personal, Social, and Religious Pain and Trauma of Growing Up Gay in America.
Austin: Greenleaf, 2008.
A collection of forty essays in which men and women describe what it was like growing up gay in America, describing the
hatred, fear, and prejudice they faced from their families, friends, co-workers, and churches.
306.76 HEA
Hear Me Out: True Stories of Teens Educating and Confronting Homophobia: a Project of Planned Parenthood of
Toronto. Toronto: Second Story, 2005.
Contains a collection of true, personal stories from volunteers of Toronto's Teens Educating and Confronting Homophobia
(T.E.A.C.H.) program, and includes first-hand accounts of issues related to sexual identity, coming out, and dealing with
harassment.
306.76 HUE
Huegel, Kelly. GLBTQ (Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender, Questioning): the Survival Guide for Queer &
Questioning Teens. Minneapolis: Free Spirit, 2003.
Describes the challenges faced by gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgendered teens, offers practical advice, real-life
experiences, and accessible resources and support groups.
306.76 IT
It Gets Better: Coming Out, Overcoming Bullying, and Creating a Life Worth Living. New York: Dutton, 2011.
A collection of original essays and expanded testimonials written to teens from celebrities, political leaders, and everyday
people. While many of these teens can't see a positive future for themselves, we can. We can show LGBT youth the kind of
happiness, potential, and satisfaction their lives hold if they can just get through these early years.
306.76 KUH
Kuhn, Betsy. Gay Power!: the Stonewall Riots and the Gay Rights Movement, 1969. Minneapolis: Twenty-First
Century Books, 2011.
Recounts the history of the gay rights movement, discussing changes that have taken place from early American history to
contemporary policies and public perception, and highlighting the Stonewall Riots of 1969.
306.76 MAR
Marcus, Eric. What if Someone I Know is Gay?: Answers to Questions about what it Means to Be Gay and Lesbian.
New York: Simon Pulse, 2007.
Answers questions about homosexuality, covering such themes as friends and family, God and religion, dating, sex, marriage
and children, school issues, and discrimination.
306.84 AND
Andryszewski, Tricia. Same-sex Marriage: Moral Wrong or Civil Right?. Minneapolis: Twenty-First Century, 2008.
Analyzes both sides of the debate over same-sex marriages, examining the moral, religious, and legal implications of
allowing homosexual couples to be legally married and the arguments of those for and against it.
323.3 PAR
Parks, Peggy J. Gay Rights. San Diego: ReferencePoint Press, 2009.
Contains primary source quotations, facts, and illustrations about gay rights, addressing the questions of whether gay rights
are protected in the U.S., whether gays and lesbians should have the legal right to marry, if they should raise children, and
what the future might hold. Includes a list of key people and advocacy groups.
342.73 KEE
Keen, Lisa. Out Law: What LGBT Youth Should Know about Their Legal Rights. Boston: Beacon Press, 2007.
Answers a number of questions about the legal rights of young people and students who are openly gay.
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Baez, John. The Gay and Lesbian Guide to College Life: a Comprehensive Resource for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual,
Transgender Students and Their Allies. New York: Random House, 2007.
Offers gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender, and questioning students advice on how they can adapt to college life, with tips on
finding a homosexual-friendly school, evaluating campus policies, dealing with homophobia on campus, finding support on
campus, and more.
500 EHR
Ehrlich, Robert. Eight Preposterous Propositions: From the Genetics of Homosexuality to the benefits of global
warming. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2003.
Presents a series of case studies of some of the most controversial topics in the natural and social sciences, exploring such
topics as placebo cures, global warming, extraterrestrial life, and psychokinesis.
616.6 WIN
Winfield, Cynthia L. Gender Identity: the Ultimate Teen Guide. Lanham: Scarecrow Press, 2007.
Explains the differences between biological sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, and gender expression and discusses
related psychological and emotional struggles, intersex research and treatment, laws related to gender, and ways to make a
difference for gender-variant individuals.
646.7 TUT
Tuttle, Cheryl Gerson. Self-Advocacy: the Ultimate Teen Guide. Lanham: Scarecrow Press, 2007.
Encourages teenagers to talk about what is bothering them with adults and their peers and explains how voicing their
worries can help them overcome their problems and find reasonable solutions.
811 BEN
Bend, Don't Shatter: Poets on the Beginning of Desire. Brooklyn: Red Rattle, 2004.
Contains a collection of poems that describe being gay, lesbian, and transgender during adolescence.
811 MER
Merrell, Billy. Talking in the Dark: a Poetry Memoir. New York: PUSH/Scholastic, 2003.
Presents a collection of poems by Billy Merrell in which he explores themes of love, sadness, and happiness.
921 MILK
Milk: a Pictorial History of Harvey Milk. New York: Newmarket, 2009.
Presents an illustrated history of Harvey Milk, the first openly gay city official in the United States, with a section on the
making of the 2008 motion picture Milk.
921 RUSTIN
Miller, Calvin Craig. No Easy Answers: Bayard Rustin and the Civil Rights Movement . Greensboro: Morgan
Reynolds, 2005.
Tells the life story of American civil rights activist Bayard Rustin, describing his pacifism, his work with such figures as
Martin Luther King, Jr., and A. Philip Randolph, and the challenges he faced within the activist community because of his
homosexuality.
921 SHEPARD Shepard, Judy. The Meaning of Matthew: My Son's Murder in Laramie, and a World Transformed. New York:
Plume, 2010.
Judy Shepard shares personal stories about her son Matthew's life and death, focusing on how she and her husband chose to
honor their son's legacy after he was murdered in a brutal hate crime by becoming international gay rights activists.
940.53 ALT
Altman, Linda Jacobs. The Forgotten Victims of the Holocaust. Berkeley Heights: Enslow, 2003.
Discusses Nazi Germany's efforts to create a so-called master race by attempting to eliminate not only the Jewish race, but
also killing or sterilizing Poles, Russians, gypsies, homosexuals, the mentally handicapped, and others considered inferior.
FIC ARG
Argiri, Laura. The God in Flight. New York: Random House, 1994.
In the 1870s, a homosexual romance between a student and a professor at Yale University. The professor is an artist and
recognizes in the student the face he has been painting for years.
FIC BAN
Bantle, Lee F. David Inside Out. New York: Henry Holt, 2009.
At a Minneapolis high school, a cross-country runner tries to deny his sexual feelings for a male teammate.
FIC BER
Berman, Steve. Vintage: a Ghost Story. Maple Shade: Lethe Press, 2008.
A lonely seventeen-year-old who has dreamed of meeting a different and special boy desperately seeks help from his friend
Trace, a Goth girl, to free him from the clutches of a handsome ghost he has met on a rural New Jersey highway.
FIC BLO
Block, Francesca Lia. Baby Be-Bop. New York: HarperTrophy, 1997.
Dirk MacDonald, a sixteen-year-old boy living in Los Angeles, comes to terms with being gay after he receives surreal
storytelling visitations from his dead father and great-grandmother.
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FIC BRA
Brande, Robin. Evolution, Me & Other Freaks of Nature. New York: Knopf, 2009.
Mena, ostracized at church, home, and school for writing a letter of apology to a gay teen--who was harassed into trying to
kill himself by her fundamentalist friends--struggles to find her way when new friends and school experiences force her to
reconsider her beliefs.
FIC BUR
Burd, Nick. The Vast Fields of Ordinary. New York : Dial Books, 2009.
The summer after graduating from an Iowa high school, eighteen-year-old Dade Hamilton watches his parents' marriage
disintegrate, ends his long-term, secret relationship, comes out of the closet, and savors first love.
FIC CAR
Carter, Timothy. Evil? Woodbury: Flux, 2009.
Stuart Bradley, a homosexual teenager living in a conservative Christian town in Ontario, Canada, dabbles in several
forbidden activities, and when word gets out, he and some other teens face grave danger from the fallen angels that are
inciting hatred and extremism in the community.
FIC COL
Collins, B. R. The Traitor Game. New York: Bloomsbury, 2008.
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.
FIC COO
Cook, Trish. Notes from the Blender. New York: Egmont USA, 2011.
Declan, a fan of Finnish death metal, violent video games, and Internet porn, dreams of getting to know beautiful gymnast
Neilly Foster, not realizing his dearest wish is about to come true because his dad is going to marry Neilly's mother.
FIC DOL
Dole, Mayra L. Down to the Bone. New York: HarperTeen, 2008.
Laura, a Miami high school student, gets caught kissing her lesbian lover which marks the start of big changes in her life,
including getting kicked out of her Catholic school, thrown out of her home by her mother, and forced to build a new kind of
family with the help of friends and supporters.
FIC FOX
Fox, Paula. The Eagle Kite. New York: Orchard Books, 1995.
Liam's father has AIDS, and his family cannot talk about it until Liam reveals a secret that he has tried to deny ever since he
saw his father embracing another man at the beach.
FIC GAN
Gantos, Jack. Desire Lines. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2006.
When sixteen-year-old Walker gets caught up in a witch-hunt against homosexuals, he is left to stand by and watch as a
tragedy unfolds.
FIC GAR
Garden, Nancy. Good Moon Rising. New York: Farrar Straus Giroux, 1996.
Jan begins her senior year of high school not expecting that she will lose the starring part in the school play, take over as
director when her beloved drama teacher becomes ill, and realize that she is a lesbian.
FIC GAR
Garden, Nancy. The Year They Burned the Books. New York: Farrar Straus Giroux, 1999.
While trying to come to terms with her own lesbian feelings, Jamie, a high-school senior and editor of the school newspaper,
finds herself in the middle of a battle with a group of townspeople over the new health education curriculum.
FIC GAR
Garsee, Jeannine. Say the Word. New York: Bloomsbury, 2009.
After the death of her estranged mother, who left Ohio years ago to live with her lesbian partner in New York City,
seventeen-year-old Shawna Gallagher's life is transformed by revelations about her family, her best friend, and herself.
FIC GEE
Geerling, Marjetta. Fancy White Trash. New York: Viking, 2008.
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.
FIC GOI
Going, K. L. King of the Screwups. Boston: Graphia, 2009.
Liam Geller is one of the most popular boys in school but can't seem to do anything right in the eyes of his father; so he goes
to live with his homosexual, rocker uncle who helps him to understand that there is much more to him than his father will
ever see.
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FIC GOL
Goldman, Steven. Two Parties, One Tux, and a Very Short Film about the Grapes of Wrath. New York:
Bloomsbury, 2008.
Mitch, a shy and awkward high school junior, negotiates the difficult social situations he encounters, both with girls and with
his best friend David, after David reveals to him that he is gay.
FIC GRE
Green, John. Will Grayson, Will Grayson. New York: Dutton, 2010.
When two teens, one gay and one straight, meet accidentally and discover that they share the same name, their lives become
intertwined as one begins dating the other's best friend, who produces a play revealing his relationship with them both.
FIC GRE
Greene, Bette. The Drowning of Stephan Jones. New York: Bantam Doubleday, 1996.
As her mother battles a citizens' group that wants to ban all "antiChristian" literature from the public library, Carla faces
her own battle of torn loyalties when her boyfriend starts persecuting the homosexual owners of an antiques shop.
FIC HAR
Harmon, Michael B. The Last Exit to Normal. New York: Knopf, 2008.
Yanked out of his city life and plunked down in a small Montana town with his newly outed father and his father's boyfriend,
seventeen-year-old Ben, angry and resentful about the changed circumstances of his life, begins to notice something is not
quite right with the little boy next door and determines to figure out what is going on.
FIC HAR
Hartinger, Brent. Geography Club. New York: HarperTempest, 2004.
A group of gay and lesbian teenagers finds mutual support when they form the "Geography Club" at their high school.
FIC HEG
Hegamin, Tonya. M+O 4evr. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2008.
Opal, having built her life around her troubled best friend Marianne, must find a way to go on alone after receiving the news
that Marianne has died.
FIC HOR
Horner, Emily. A Love Story Starring My Dead Best Friend. New York: Dial Books, 2010.
As she tries to sort out her feelings of love, seventeen-year-old Cass, a spunky math genius with an introverted streak, finds a
way to memorialize her dead best friend.
FIC HUR
Hurwin, Davida. Freaks and Revelations. New York: Little, Brown and Co, 2009.
A story told in the alternating voices of a seventeen-year-old racist and a thirteen-year-old boy cast out of his home for being
gay, whose violent encounter with each other has a lasting impact on their futures.
FIC HYD
Hyde, Catherine Ryan. Becoming Chloe. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2006.
A gay teenage boy and a fragile teenage girl meet while living on the streets of New York City and eventually decide to take a
road trip across America to discover whether or not the world is a beautiful place.
FIC JOH
Johnson, Maureen. The Bermudez Triangle. New York: Razorbill, 2004.
The friendship of three high school girls and their relationships with their friends and families are tested when two of them
fall in love with each other.
FIC JON
Jones, Carrie. Tips on Having a Gay (Ex) Boyfriend. Woodbury: Flux, 2008.
Belle, a high school junior, expects to marry her long-term boyfriend one day until he tells her and their entire small Maine
town that he is gay, and both face prejudice and violence even as they enter new relationships and try to remain friends.
FIC KER
Kerr, M. E. "Hello," I Lied. New York: HarperCollins, 1997.
Summering in the Hamptons on the estate of a famous rock star, seventeen-year-old Lang tries to decide how to tell his
longtime friends that he is gay, while struggling with an unexpected infatuation with a girl from France.
FIC KER
Kerr, M. E. Deliver Us from Evie. New York: HarperTrophy, 1995.
Sixteen-year-old Parr Burrman and his family face some difficult times when word spreads through their rural Missouri town
that his older sister is a lesbian, and she leaves the family farm to live with the daughter of the town's banker.
FIC KLU
Kluger, Steve. My Most Excellent Year: a Novel of Love, Mary Poppins, & Fenway Park. New York: Speak, 2009.
Three Boston teens, about to become seniors, learn important lessons about friendship, love, family, and themselves as they
work to complete an English assignment on their "most excellent year."
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FIC KOE
Koertge, Ronald. Boy Girl Boy. Orlando: Harcourt, 2007.
Three troubled high school seniors plan to run away together from Illinois to California after graduation in order to find out
who they are and what they want to be.
FIC KOJ
Koja, Kathe. Talk. New York: Frances Foster Books, 2005.
Kit auditions for a controversial school play and discovers his talent for acting; however, both he and his costar face crises
in their view of themselves and in their close relationships.
FIC KON
Konigsberg, Bill. Out of the Pocket. New York: Dutton Books, 2008.
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.
FIC LAR
LaRochelle, David. Absolutely, Positively Not. New York: Arthur A. Levine Books, 2005.
Chronicles a teenage boy's humorous attempts to fit in at his Minnesota high school by becoming a macho, girl-loving,
"Playboy" pinup-displaying heterosexual.
FIC LEV
Levithan, David. Wide Awake. New York: Knopf, 2006.
In the not-too-distant future, when a gay Jewish man is elected president of the United States, sixteen-year-old Duncan
examines his feelings for his boyfriend, his political and religious beliefs, and tries to determine his rightful place in the
world.
FIC LEV
Levithan, David. Boy Meets Boy. New York: Knopf, 2003.
Paul's simple high-school life is confused by his desire for another boy who seems unattainable, until Paul's friends help him
find the courage to pursue him.
FIC LEV
Levithan, David. Love is the Higher Law. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2009.
Three New York City teens express their reactions to the bombing of the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001, and its
impact on their lives and the world.
FIC LYO
Lyon, George Ella. Sonny's House of Spies. New York: Atheneum, 2004.
In a small Alabama town in 1947-1956, Sonny searches for answers about his father's disappearance, "Uncle Marty," who
looks after the family, and Mamby, their black housekeeper.
FIC MAL
Malloy, Brian. Twelve Long Months. New York: Scholastic, 2008.
From the end of her senior year at Minnesota's Le Sueur High School through her first year as a physics major at Columbia
University, Molly Swain finds the inner strength and good friends to help her cope with huge challenges, including learning
that the boy she loves is gay.
FIC MYR
Myracle, Lauren. Kissing Kate. New York: Speak, 2007.
Sixteen-year-old Lissa's relationship with her best friend changes after they kiss at a party and Lissa does not know what to
do, until she gets help from an unexpected new friend.
FIC PEC
Peck, Dale. Sprout: or My Salad Days, When I was Green in Judgment*. New York: Bloomsbury, 2009.
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.
FIC PET
Peters, Julie Anne. Keeping You a Secret. New York: Little, Brown, 2003.
Holland starts a difficult last semester of high school, and she finds herself puzzled about her future but intrigued by a
transfer student who wants to start a lesbian and gay club at school.
FIC PET
Peters, Julie Anne. Rage: a Love Story. New York: Knopf, 2009.
At the end of high school, Johanna finally begins dating the girl she has loved from afar, but Reeve is as much trouble as she
claims to be as she and her twin brother damage Johanna's self-esteem, friendships, and already precarious relationship
with her sister.
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FIC PET
Peters, Julie Anne. Far from Xanadu. New York: Little, Brown, 2005.
Sixteen-year-old Mary-Elizabeth "Mike" Szabo, struggling to understand her father's suicide and her own homosexuality,
reaches the breaking point when she falls in love with Xanadu, an exotic girl who has moved to small Coalton, Kansas, from
the big city.
FIC PIC
Picoult, Jodi. Sing You Home. New York : Atria Books, 2011.
Zoe Baxter finds unexpected love with a younger woman after she and her husband divorce, and when the couple wants to
use the embryos Zoe and her ex-husband had frozen when they were trying to get pregnant, it sparks a legal battle over the
rights of gay couples and whether an embryo is considered a life or a piece of property.
FIC PLU
Plum-Ucci, Carol. What Happened to Lani Garver. San Diego: Harcourt, 2002.
Sixteen-year-old Claire is unable to face her fears about a recurrence of her leukemia, her eating disorder, her need to fit in
with the popular crowd on Hackett Island, and her mother's alcoholism until the enigmatic Lani Garver helps her get control
of her life at the risk of his own.
FIC RAI
Rainfield, C. A. Scars. Lodi: WestSide Books, 2010.
Fifteen-year-old Kendra, a budding artist who has not felt safe since she began to remember devastating memories of
childhood sexual abuse, cannot seem to recall her abuser's identity and copes with the stress by cutting herself.
FIC RYA
Ryan, Patrick. Gemini Bites. New York: Scholastic Press, 2011.
When their parents announce they are taking in a fellow student for a month, 16-year-old twins Kyle and Judy sit up and take
notice. Kyle has just come out of the closet to his family and fears he'll never know what it is like to date a guy. Judy is
pretending to be born-again to attract a boy who heads a Bible study group. And Garret Johnson is new in town-- a
mysterious loner who claims to be a vampire. Both twins are intrigued.
FIC RYA
Ryan, Sara. Empress of the World. New York: Speak, 2003.
While attending a summer institute, fifteen-year-old Nic meets another girl named Battle, falls in love with her, and finds the
relationship to be difficult and confusing.
FIC RYA
Ryan, Sara. The Rules for Hearts: a Family Drama. New York: Viking, 2007.
When he reappears in her life after a four-year absence, Battle Hall Davies spends the summer before college with her
brother Nick and learns a lot about Nick and herself.
FIC SAN
Sanchez, Alex. Getting It. New York: Simon Pulse, 2007.
Fifteen-year-old Carlos secretly hires gay student Sal to give him an image makeover in order to impress a female classmate,
and in exchange, Carlos agrees to help Sal form a Gay-Straight Alliance at their Texas high school.
FIC SAN
Sanchez, Alex. The God Box. New York: Simon &, 2007.
When openly gay Manuel transfers to Paul's high school, Paul, a born-again Christian, begins to question his own sexuality.
FIC SAN
Sanchez, Alex. Rainbow Boys. New York: Simon Pulse, 2003.
Three high school seniors, a jock with a girlfriend and an alcoholic father, a closeted gay, and a flamboyant gay rights
advocate, struggle with family issues, gay bashers, first sex, and conflicting feelings about each other.
FIC SAN
Sanchez, Alex. Rainbow High. New York: Simon Pulse, 2005.
Gay friends Nelson, Kyle, and Jason, nearing the end of their high school days, struggle with issues of coming out, safe sex,
homophobia, being in love, and college choices.
FIC SEL
Selvadurai, Shyam. Swimming in the Monsoon Sea. Toronto: Tundra, 2005.
In 1980 Sri Lanka, fourteen-year-old Amrith's uneventful summer, filled with typing lessons and hopes of a part in his
school's production of "Othello," is turned upside down when he falls in love with a boy.
FIC SON
Sones, Sonya. One of Those Hideous Books Where the Mother Dies. New York: Simon &, 2004.
Fifteen-year-old Ruby Milliken leaves her best friend, her boyfriend, her aunt, and her mother's grave in Boston and
reluctantly flies to Los Angeles to live with her father, a famous movie star who divorced her mother before Ruby was born.
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FIC STJ
St. James, James. Freak Show. New York: Dutton, 2007.
Having faced teasing that turned into a brutal attack, Christianity expressed as persecution, and the loss of his only real
friend when he could no longer keep his crush under wraps, seventeen-year-old Billy Bloom, a drag queen, decides the only
to become fabulous again is to run for Homecoming Queen at his elite, private school near Fort Lauderdale, Florida.
FIC TRU
Trueman, Terry. 7 Days at the Hot Corner. New York: HarperTempest, 2007.
Varsity baseball player Scott Latimer struggles with his own prejudices and those of others when his best friend reveals that
he is gay.
FIC WAL
Wallace, Rich. Dishes. New York: Viking, 2008.
Nineteen-year-old Danny spends an eventful summer in Maine, looking for romance, working as a "straight" dishwasher in a
gay bar, and trying to reconnect with his estranged father.
FIC WEY
Weyr, Garret. My Heartbeat. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2002.
As she tries to understand the closeness between her older brother and his best friend, fourteen-year-old Ellen finds her
relationship with each of them changing.
FIC WIL
Wilson, Martin. What They Always Tell Us. New York: Delacorte Press, 2008.
Sixteen-year-old Alex feels so disconnected from his friends that he starts his junior year at a Tuscaloosa, Alabama, high
school by attempting suicide, but soon, a friend of his older brother draws him into cross-country running and a new
understanding of himself.
FIC WIT
Wittlinger, Ellen. Love & Lies: Marisol's Story. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2010.
When Marisol, a self-confident eighteen-year-old lesbian, moves to Cambridge, Massachusetts to work and try to write a
novel, she falls under the spell of her beautiful but deceitful writing teacher, while also befriending a shy, vulnerable girl
from Indiana.
FIC WRI
Wright, Bil. Putting Makeup on the Fat Boy. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2011.
Sixteen-year-old Carlos Duarte is on the verge of realizing his dream of becoming a famous make-up artist, but first he must
face his jealous boss at a Macy's cosmetics counter, his sister's abusive boyfriend, and his crush on a punk-rocker classmate.
SC HOW
How Beautiful the Ordinary: Twelve Stories of Identity. New York: HarperTeen, 2009.
Presents twelve stories by contemporary, award-winning young adult authors, some presented in graphic or letter format,
which explore themes of gender identity, love, and sexuality.
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