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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 11
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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.
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Series
Aristotle and Dante volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 2.9 - AR Pts: 8
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Hispanic Heritage Month (September 15-October 15)
Pride Month
Pura Belpre Award
Stonewall Children's & Young Adult
Pride Month
Pura Belpre Award
Stonewall Children's & Young Adult
Description
From the cover. Dante can swim. Ari can't. Dante is articulate and self-assured. Ari has a hard time with words and suffers from self-doubt. Dante gets lost in poetry and art. Ari gets lost in thoughts of his older brother who is prison. Dante is fair-skinned. Ari's features are much darker. It seems that a boy like Dante, with his open and unique perspective on life, would be the last person to break down the walls that Ari has built around himself....
Author
Pub. Date
2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 8
Description
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.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 5
Description
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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Pub. Date
2023.
Description
In this much-anticipated follow-up to Suicide Notes, Jeff, who is now home from the psych hospital after a suicide attempt, returns to school, feeling stronger and more comfortable being his true self, but finds it hard to come back to an old life when he has a new perspective on it. Simultaneous eBook.
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Pub. Date
c2013.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 8
Description
In Iran, where homosexuality is punishable by death, seventeen-year-olds Sahar and Nasrin love each other in secret until Nasrin's parents announce their daughter's arranged marriage and Sahar proposes a drastic solution.
8) Ship it
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Pub. Date
2018.
Description
Told from two viewpoints, Forest, a television actor who needs more fans, and Claire, a teen fan fiction blogger, are teamed to raise his profile despite their disagreement over whether his character is gay.
9) Hero
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 18
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Description
"Thom is elated when the League, the foremost organization of superheroes, invites him to join as a probationary member. However, because his father, a disgraced former hero, detests super-heroes and gays, Thom hides both aspects of his identity."--Publisher's Weekly.
11) Baby be-bop
Author
Series
Weetzie Bat volume 5
Pub. Date
[1995]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 4
Description
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
12) Peter
Author
Pub. Date
1993
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 6
Description
An ordinary fifteen-year-old Australian kid, who enjoys riding his dirt bike and wants to be a photographer, becomes confused about his sexuality when he finds he is attracted to a gay friend of his older brother.
13) Jack
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Series
Pub. Date
1990
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 9
Description
Fifteen-year-old Jack's confused feelings for his father, who left him and his mother four years earlier, are further complicated when he finds that his father is gay.
Author
Pub. Date
[2002]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 15
Description
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.
15) Geography Club
Author
Series
Russel Middlebrook series volume 1
Pub. Date
[2003]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 6
Description
A group of gay and lesbian teenagers finds mutual support when they form the "Geography Club" at their high school.
16) Time will tell
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 20
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Description
Relates the efforts of teens Elayah, Liam, Jorja, and Marcie to solve a 1986 murder, and the actions of their then-teenaged parents leading up to the crime.
19) The God box
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 10
Description
When openly gay Manuel transfers to Paul's high school, Paul, a born-again Christian, begins to question his own sexuality.
20) Corydon
Author
Pub. Date
1950
Description
First published nearly one hundred years ago, André Gide's masterpiece, translated from the original French by Pulitzer Prize winner Richard Howard, draws from the disciplines of biology, philosophy, and history to support the author's assertion that homosexuality is a natural human trait At the time of his death in 1951, having won the Nobel Prize in Literature only four years prior, André Gide was considered one of the most important literary...