Not the Only One: Lesbian and Gay Fiction for Teens Edited by Jane Summer
A collection of short stories portraying gay and lesbian teenagers at different moments in their lives.
Am I Blue? Coming Out from the Silence Edited by Marion Dane Bauer
A collection of short stories about by such authors as Bruce Coville, M.E. Kerr, William Sleator, and Jane Yolen.
Baby Be-Bop Francesca Lia Block
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.
Debbie Harry Sings in French
Meagan Brothers
When Johnny completes an alcohol rehab and his mother sends him to live with his uncle in North Carolina, he learns about his deceased father's youthful forays into glam rock, which gives him perspective on himself, his past, and his current life.
King of the Screwups
K. L. Going
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.
Two Parties, One Tux, and a Very Short Film about the Grapes of Wrath Steven Goldman
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.
Will Grayson, Will Grayson
John Green and David Levithan
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.
Geography Club Brent Hartinger A group of gay and lesbian teenagers finds mutual support when they form the "Geography Club" at their high school.
Freaks and Revelations: A Novel
Davida Hurwin
Tells, in two voices, of events leading up to a 1980 incident in which fourteen-year-old Jason, a gay youth surviving on the streets as a prostitute, and seventeen-year-old Doug, a hate-filled neo-nazi punk rocker, have a fateful meeting in a Los Angeles alley.
Almost Perfect
Brian Katcher
With his mother working long hours and in pain from a romantic break-up, eighteen-year-old Logan feels alone and unloved until a zany new student arrives at his small-town Missouri high school, keeping a big secret.
Love Drugged
James Klise
Fifteen-year-old Jamie is dismayed by his attraction to boys, and when a beautiful girl shows an interest in him, he is all the more intrigued by her father's work developing a drug called 'Rehomoline'.
My Most Excellent Year: a Novel of Love, Mary Poppins, and Fenway Park
Steve Kluger
Three teenagers in Boston narrate their experiences of a year of new friendships, first loves, and coming into their own.
Out of the Pocket
Bill Konigsberg
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.
Boy Meets Boy
David Levithan
In a high school where the cheerleaders ride Harleys, the homecoming queen used to be a guy named Daryl, and no one has hang-ups about sexual orientation, Paul falls for Noah and discovers the highs and lows of love.
Love is the Higher Law
David Levithan
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.
Ash
Malinda Lo
In this variation on the Cinderella story, Ash grows up believing in the fairy realm that the king and his philosophers have sought to suppress, until one day she must choose between a handsome fairy cursed to love her and the King's Huntress whom she loves.
Shine
Lauren Myracle
When her best friend falls victim to a vicious hate crime, sixteen-year-old Cat sets out to discover the culprits in her small North Carolina town.
Luna: A Novel
Julie Anne Peters
Regan's life, which has always revolved around keeping her older brother Liam's transsexuality a secret, changes when Liam decides to start the process of transitioning by telling his family and friends that he identifies as a girl.
Rainbow Boys (series) Alex Sanchez
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, and conflicting feelings about each other.
My Heartbeat Garret Freymann-Weyr 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.
Parrotfish
Ellen Wittlinger
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.
Putting Makeup On the Fat Boy
Bil Wright
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.
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