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The Full Spectrum: a New Generation of Writing About Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender, Questioning, and other Identities
The Full Spectrum includes a variety of writers--gay, lesbian, bisexual, straight, transitioning, and questioning--on a variety of subjects: coming out, family, friendship, religion/faith, first kisses, break-ups, and many others. This one of a kind collection will, perhaps, help all readers see themselves and the world around them in ways they might never have imagined.
272 p. 2006
Teen Nonfiction Book
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How Beautiful the Ordinary: Twelve Stories of Identity
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.
350 p. 2009
Teen Fiction Book
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Agell, Charlotte
The Accidental Adventures of India McAllister
India, an unusual nine-and-a-half-year-old living in small-town Maine, has a series of adventures which bring her closer to her artist-mother, strengthen her friendship with a neighbor boy, and help her to accept the man for whom her father moved away.
151 p. 2010
Children's Fiction Book
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Beam, Cris
I Am J
J, who feels like a boy mistakenly born as a girl, runs away from his best friend who has rejected him and the parents he thinks do not understand him when he finally decides that it is time to be who he really is.
326p. 2011
Teen Fiction Book
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Bigelow, Lisa Jenn
Starting from Here
Sixteen-year-old Colby is barely hanging on with her mother dead, her long-haul trucker father often away, her almost-girlfriend dumping her for a boy, and her failing grades, when a stray dog appears and helps her find hope.
282 p. 2012
Teen Fiction Book
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Boyd, Maria
Will
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.
300 p. 2010
Teen Fiction Book
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Brezenoff, Steven
Brooklyn Burning
Sixteen-year-old Kid, who lives on the streets of Brooklyn, loves Felix, a guitarist and junkie who disappears, leaving Kid the prime suspect in an arson investigation, but a year later Scout arrives, giving Kid a second chance to be in a band and find true love.
202 p. 2011
Teen Fiction Book
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Burch, Christian
The Manny Files
A shy young boy learns how to be more outgoing and self-confident from his male nanny.
296 p. 2006
Children's Fiction Book
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Burd, Nick
The Vast Fields of Ordinary
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.
309 p. 2009
Teen Fiction Book
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Cameron, Peter
Someday this Pain Will be Useful to You
Eighteen-year-old James living in New York City with his older sister and divorced mother struggles to find a direction for his life.
229 p. 2007
Teen Fiction Book
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Carter, Timothy
Evil?
Stuart Bradley, a gay 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.
256 p. 2009
Teen Fiction Book
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Cohn, Rachel
Naomi and Ely's No Kiss List
Although they have been friends and neighbors all their lives, straight Naomi and gay Ely find their relationship severely strained during their freshman year at New York University. Cohn's novel "Very LeFreak" is also a Rainbow Project selection.
230 p. 2007
Teen Fiction Book
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Davis, Tanita S.
Happy Families
In alternating chapters, sixteen-year-old twins Ysabel and Justin share their conflicted feelings as they struggle to come to terms with their father's decision to transition to the feminine gender.
234 p. 2012
Teen Fiction Book
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Diaz, Alexandra
Of All the Stupid Things
Told from their differing viewpoints, high schoolers Tara, an athlete, Whitney Blaire, a beauty, and Pinkie, a mother hen, face problems in various relationships but the most devastating occurs when Tara finds herself attracted to a girl Whitney Blaire hates.
258 p. 2010
Teen Fiction Book
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Fakhrid-Deen, Tina
Let's Get this Straight: the Ultimate Handbook for Youth with LGBTQ Parents
This short but thorough book profiles forty-five diverse youth and young adults, all of whom voice their opinions and provide advice for other youth living in LGBTQ households.Let’s Get This Straightalso includes probing questions, fun activities, engaging quizzes, and reflective journal sections for youth to share their feelings and experiences about having a gay parent.
203 p. 2010
Teen Nonfiction Book
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Franklin, Emily
Tessa Masterson Will Go to Prom
Feeling humiliated and confused when his best friend Tessa rejects his love and reveals a long-held secret, high school senior Luke must decide if he should stand by Tessa when she invites a female date to the prom, sparking a firestorm of controversy in their small Indiana town.
256 p. 2012
Teen Fiction Book
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Garden, Nancy
Hear Us Out!: Lesbian and Gay Stories of Struggle, Progress, and Hope from 1950 to the Present
Uses both fact and fiction to explore just what it has meant to be young and gay in America during the last fifty years, combining both social and political essays about each decade with short stories of young gay people coming of age during those times.
230 p. 2007
Teen Nonfiction Book
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Garsee, Jeannine
Say the Word
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.
360 p. 2009
Teen Fiction Book
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Gennari, Jennifer
My Mixed-up Berry Blue Summer
Twelve-year-old June Farrell spends the summer at her Vermont home getting used to the woman her mother is planning to marry and how the locals react to her GLBTQ family, and practicing her pie-baking skills, as she hopes to win the blue ribbon at the fair.
119 p. 2012
Children's Fiction Book
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Going, K. L.
King of the Screwups
After getting in trouble yet again, popular high school senior Liam, who never seems to live up to his wealthy father's expectations, is sent to live in a trailer park with his gay glam-rocker uncle.
310 p. 2009
Teen Fiction Book
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