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Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
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Marty arrives in London with nothing but his oboe and some savings from his summer job, but he's excited to start his new life. Here he is no longer the closeted, shy kid; he is free to explore his sexuality without his parents' disapproval. In the span of a few weeks he makes new friends, he's getting closer with his first ever boyfriend, and he's even traveling around Europe. But he hasn't talked to his parents back in Kentucky since he arrived,...
Author
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
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Description
In a near-future America, a sentient computer program named Charlotte has turned terrorist, but Lee Fisher, the closeted son of an ultraconservative President, is more concerned with keeping his Secret Service detail from finding out about his developing romance with Nico, the new guy at school, but when the spider-like robots that roam the school halls begin acting even stranger than usual, Lee realizes he is Charlotte's next target.
Author
Series
Will Grayson Will Grayson volume 2
Publisher
Dutton Books, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA), LLC
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
200 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Larger-than-life Tiny Cooper finally gets to tell his story, from his fabulous birth and childhood to his quest for true love and his infamous parade of ex-boyfriends, in the form of a musical he wrote"--
Author
Series
Publisher
Little Bee Books, an imprint of Bonnier Publishing USA
Pub. Date
[2018]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 22 x 26 cm
Language
English
Description
A prince and a knight in shining armor find true love in each other's embrace after fighting a dragon together.
Author
Language
English
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After enduring his father's suicide, his own suicide attempt, broken friendships, and more in the Bronx projects, Aaron Soto, sixteen, is already considering the Leteo Institute's memory-alteration procedure when his new friendship with Thomas turns to unrequited love.
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Jeremy is not excited about the prospect of spending the summer with his dad and his uncle in a seaside cabin in Oregon. It's the first summer after his parents' divorce, and he hasn't exactly been seeking alone time with his dad. He doesn't have a choice, though, so he goes . . . and on his first day takes a walk on the beach and finds himself intrigued by a boy his age running by. Eventually, he and Runner Boy (Evan) meet--and what starts out as...
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
275 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Maggie Bowers thinks she knows what to expect her junior year of high school, but when she and her out-of-the-closet best friend Nash have feelings for the same boy she wonders if winning someone's heart means losing her soul mate.
9) Shine
Author
Language
English
Description
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.
10) Promposal
Author
Publisher
Simon Pulse
Pub. Date
2015.
Edition
First Simon Pulse edition.
Physical Desc
207 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
Camilla hopes her secret crush, Benjamin, might ask her to prom but feels pressured into accepting the invitation of a casual acquaintance, and Joshua has worked up the courage to ask his best friend, Ethan, to be his date when Ethan asks his help in crafting the perfect "promposal" for another boy.
11) Resistance
Author
Series
Publisher
Tor Teen
Pub. Date
2014.
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
366 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
While Nadia and Nate, a teenaged boy who was killed and reanimated by human replication technology, try to restore Nate's original memories, they learn more about the conspiracy and a secret that could change everything.
12) The golden hour
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
237 pages : chiefly color illustrations ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
After witnessing a violent attack at school, Manuel struggles with anxiety but his cell phone camera helps him find anchors when he dissociates, and an unexpected friendship opens up new possibilities.
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
[2021]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
328 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
Featuring contributions from Eric Bell, Katherine Locke and A.J. Sass, this first LGBTQA+ anthology for middle-grade readers presents stories of queer fantasy, historical and contemporary stories for every letter of the acronym.
14) The whispers
Author
Publisher
Putnam/G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
229 pages : illustration ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Eleven-year-old Riley's mom has disappeared and Riley knows that if he leaves tributes for the whispers, magical fairies that grant wishes, his mom will come back to him"--
Author
Publisher
Farrar Straus Giroux for Young Readers, an imprint of Macmillan Publishing Group, LLC
Pub. Date
[2020]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
277 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
After researching Glenn Burke, the first major league baseball player to come out as gay, sixth-grader Silas Wade slowly comes out to his best friend Zoey, then his coach, with unexpected consequences.
Author
Series
Nate volume 3
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2018]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
249 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
When E.T.: The Musical closes, Nate reluctantly returns home to begin high school and, with his best friend Libby, makes a project of turning Dickens' Great Expectations into a musical.
18) Kings of B'more
Author
Publisher
Kokila
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
410 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Propelled by his best friend's impending move out of state and inspired by Ferris Bueller's Day Off, sixteen-year-old Harrison plans a farewell through Baltimore that includes a road trip, their first Pride, and a rooftop dance party.
19) Dryland
Author
Publisher
Tin House Books
Pub. Date
2015.
Edition
First US edition.
Physical Desc
216 pages ; 20 cm
Language
English
Description
"It's 1992, and the world is caught up in the HIV/AIDS epidemic and the Balkan Wars, but for fifteen-year-old Julie Winter, the news is noise. In Portland, Oregon, Julie moves through her days in a series of negatives: the skaters she doesn't think are cute, the trinkets she doesn't buy at the craft fair, the umbrella she refuses to carry despite the incessant rain. Her family life is routine and restrained, and no one talks about Julie's older brother,...
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