Find Out! – Resources for Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual & Transgendered Teens: Fiction (page 3)

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  • Definition
  • Schrag, Ariel.
    Sex, drugs, and rock and roll define one sophomore’s year at Berkeley (CA) High School in this graphic novel.

  • Funny Boy
  • Selvadurai, Shyam.
    Growing up in Sri Lanka, Ajie is considered “funny” because he hates sports, likes to wear a sari, and plays with girls.

  • Unlived Affections
  • Shannon, George.
    By reading old letters, eighteen year old Willie discovers that the father he’s never known was gay.

  • Toby’s Lie
  • Vilmure, Daniel.
    Toby wants to take Ian to his prom…at a Catholic high school!

  • Peter
  • Walker, Kate.
    Fifteen-year-old Peter is initially horrified to find himself attracted to his brother’s gay friend.

  • My Heartbeat
  • Weyr, Garret Freymann.
    When her older brother can’t handle his best friends James’ bisexuality, Ellen’s relationship with each of them changes.

  • Girl Walking Backwards
  • Williams, Bett.
    Surrounded by new-age homophobia and L. A. superficiality, Skye seeks true love.

  • Hard Love
  • Wittlinger, Ellen.
    Sixteen-year-old loner, John, bonds with Marisol over their shared interest in zines,
    but his feelings go beyond friendship, and Marisol is a lesbian. 

  • Love and Lies
  •  Wittlinger, Ellen
    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.

  • Parrotfish
  • Wittlinger, Ellen.
    Grady, a transgendered high school student, yearns for acceptance by his classmates and family as he struggles to adjust to his new identity as a male.

  • From the Notebooks of Melanin Sun
  • Woodson, Jacqueline.
    Melanin Sun struggles with, and comes to accept his mother’s lesbianism and her relationship with a white woman.

  • Sunday You Learn How to Box
  • Wright, Bill.
    Louis suffers from his violent step-father’s attempts to cure him of his effeminate ways, but his crush on a neighborhood thug helps him hold on to his dreams of a better future.

  • Christ-Like
  • Xavier, Emanuel.
    After a brutal childhood, Mikey survives in the gritty underworld of gay New York with other gay Hispanic teens.

  • Deliver Us From Evie
  • by Kerr, M. E.
    Despite pressure from her family and small farm community, Evie manages to be true to herself.

  • The Arizona Kid
  • by Koertge, Ron.
    Billy spends the summer with his gay uncle and finds romance at the racetrack in this very funny book.

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