Absolutely, Positively Not by David LaRochelle
Arthur A. Levin, 2005
Chronicles a teenage boy's humorous attempts to fit in at his Minnesota high school by becoming a macho, girl-loving, "Playboy" pinup-displaying heterosexual.
YA FICTION LAR

Annie on My Mind by Nancy Garden
Farrar, Straus, Giroux, copyright 1982
This story of two girls who fall in love was the first novel for teens that dealt with gay and lesbian issues.
PB YA FICTION GAR

Bastard Out of Carolina by Dorothy Allison
Dutton, 1992
Bone confronts her mother and stepfather's troubled marriage, poverty, and the shame of being "white trash" as she grows up in South Carolina.
FICTION ALL

Boy Meets Boy by David Levithan
Alfred A. Knopf, 2003
Paul's simple high-school life is confused by his desire for another boy who seems unattainable, until Paul's friends help him find the courage to pursue him.
YA FICTION LEV

Eight Seconds by Jean Ferris
Harcourt, 2000
Eighteen-year-old John must confront his own sexuality when he goes to rodeo school and finds himself strangely attracted to an older boy who is smart, tough, complicated, gorgeous, and gay.
YA FICTION FER

Deliver Us from Evie by M.E. Kerr
HarperCollins, 1994
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.
YA FICTION KER

Geography Club by Brent Hartiger
HarperCollins, 2002
A group of gay and lesbian teenagers finds mutual support when they form the "Geography Club" at their high school.
YA FICTION HAR

Hard Love by Ellen Wittlinger
Simon & Schuster, 1999
After starting to publish a zine in which he writes his secret feelings about his lonely life and his parents' divorce, sixteen-year-old John meets an unusual girl and begins to develop a healthier personality.
YA FICTION WIT

The House You Pass on the Way by Jacqueline Woodson
Delacorte Press, 1997
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.
YT FICTION WOO

My Heartbeat by Garret Weyr
Houghton Mifflin, 2002
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.
YA FICTION WEY

Rainbow Boys by Alex Sanchez
Simon & Schuster, 2001
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, first sex, and conflicting feelings about each other.
YA FICITON SAN

Strangers in Paradise by Terry Moore
Abstract Studio, 2004
Katchoo, a talented artist, is secretly in love with her best friend Francine; when Katchoo meets David at an art museum, the two build a strong friendship, despite David's desire for more. Just when Katchoo's little love triangle begins getting complicated, the Mafia past she thought she had walked away from arises to try to destroy her life.
YA FICTION MOO

Talk by Kathe Koja
Farrar, Straus, Giroux, 2005
Hoping to escape from himself for awhile, Kit auditions for a controversial school play and discovers his talent for acting, struggles with coming out, and both he and his costar face crises in their view of themselves and in their close relationships.
YA FICTION KOJ

What Happened to Lani Garver by Carol Plum-Ucci
Harcourt, 2002
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.
YA FICTION PLU

The Year of Ice by Brian Malloy
St. Martin's Press, 2002
The year 1978, when Kevin Doyle graduates from high school and goes to college, is not his best. For one, he is passionately in love with classmate Jon Thompson, who is unaware of Kevin's attention; also, Kevin learns that the accident that took his mother's life two years ago could have been suicide.
FICTION MAL

Non-fiction Titles and Resources:

In Your Face: Stories from the Lives of Queer Youth by Mary L. Gray
Harrington Park Press, 1999
A unique collection of real-life accounts that explores the lives and identities of lesbian, gay, and bisexual teens, through their own words and stories.
306.766 GRA

Pedro and Me by Judd Winick
Henry Holt, 2000
In graphic art format, describes the friendship between two roommates on the MTV show "Real World," one of whom died of AIDS.
362.1 WIN

What If Someone I Know Is Gay? by Eric Marcus
Price Stern Sloan, 2000
The author answers 300 most frequently asked questions by teens concerning gay and lesbian people and also provides suggestions for adults who are faced with questions that leave them struggling for the right thing to say.
J 306.766 MAR