GLBT Booklist

Bauer, Marion Dane. Am I Blue?
A collection of short stories about homosexuality by such authors as Bruce Coville, M.E. Kerr, William Sleator, and Jane Yolen.
Block, Francesca Lia.. Baby-Be-Bop.
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.
Cart, Michael.  Love and Sex.
Covering an array of topics and situations, a collection of stories about love and sex includes works by Joan Bauer, Angela Johnson, Chris Lynch, Garth Nix, and Laurie Halse Anderson.
Garden, Nancy. Holly's Secret.
When she starts middle school, eleven-year-old Holly decides to become sophisticated and feminine, change her name to Yvette, and hide the fact that her two moms are lesbians.
Good Moon Rising.
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.
Annie on My Mind.
Liza puts aside her feelings for Annie after the disaster at school, but eventually she allows love to triumph over the ignorance of people.
Freymann-Weyr, Garret. My Heartbeat.
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.
Futcher, Jane. Crush.
In her final year at a prestigious boarding school, reserved, artistic Jinx is badly hurt by the treachery of the rich, pretty girl she has considered her best friend.
Grima, Tony. Editor. Not the Only One: Lesbian and Gay Fiction for Teens.
A collection of short stories portraying gay and lesbian teenagers at different moments in their lives.
Jaffe-Gill, Ellen.No Big Deal.
When rumors that Janice's favorite teacher is gay begin to circulate at school and in the community, she decides to stand up for him even in the face of her mother's opposition.
Kerr, M.E. "Hello" I Lied.
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.
Deliver Us From Evie.
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.
Koertge, Ron. The Arizona Kid.
Sixteen-year-old Billy spends the summer with his gay uncle in Tucson and works at a racetrack, where he falls in love with an outspoken horse exerciser named Cara Mae.
Levithan, David. Boy Meets Boy.
When Paul falls hard for Noah, he thinks he has found his one true love, but when Noah walks out of his life, Paul has to find a way to get him back and make everything right once more.
The Realm of Possibility.
A variety of students at the same high school describe their ideas, experiences, and relationships in a series of interconnected free verse stories.
Murrow, Liza Ketchum. Twelve Days in August.
Twelve days in August change a sixteen-year-old soccer player's perceptions of himself, his family, girls, and gays.
Scoppettone, Sandra. Trying Hard to Hear You.
Faced with the revelation that her best friend is a homosexual, a sixteen-year-old tries to cope with her own and her friends' reactions toward him.
Woodson, Jacqueline. From the Notebooks of Melanin Sun.
Fourteen-year-old Melanin Sun's comfortable, quiet life is shattered when his mother reveals she has fallen in love with a woman.
The House you Pass on the Way.
When fourteen-year-old Staggerlee, the daughter of a racially mixed marriage, spends a summer with her cousin Trout, she begins to question her sexuality to Trout and catches a glimpse of her possible future self.
Young, Cathy. One Hot Second.
A collection of eleven stories by award-winning authors that explore the many varieties of teenage desire, including first crushes, first kisses, and first times.

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