| Tucson-Pima Public Library GLBT — Teen Bibliography |
The Tucson-Pima Public Library has made this list of Gay and Lesbian theme teenage-level novels, anthologies, and personal narratives available in printed form.
Author |
Titles |
Description |
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Margaret Bechard |
If It Doesn't Kill You, 1999 |
When his father moves out to be with another man, Ben feels betrayed and ashamed. Then he meets someone who teaches him the difference between people who lie to manipulate and those who withhold the truth because they are struggling to discover it themselves. |
Paula Boock |
Dare Truth or Promise, 1999 |
Willa, an outstanding student, wants to practice law; Louie simply wants to get through her exams and become a chef. Who would think they would fall in love? |
Stephen Chbosky |
The Perks of Being a Wallflower, 1999 |
A gay character is part of the mix in this darkly funny, explicit novel. It's about a precocious but naive and cautious 15-year-old who tries to come to terms with a dreadful part of his past and discover who he is by breaking away from the "old him." |
Marion Dane Bauer, editor |
Am I Blue? Coming out from the Silence |
Great collection of short stories with GLBT themes. |
Jean Ferris |
Eight Seconds, 2000 |
At rodeo summer camp, John Ritchie admires the skills of his new friend Kit. When John discovers that Kit is gay, his old perceptions are challenged in ways that change both young men forever. |
Michael Thomas Ford |
Outspoken: Role Models from the Lesbian and Gay Community, 1998 |
Ford's collection of 11 interviews sensitively introduces men and women who have left the sexual angst and turmoil of adolescence behind to accept their homosexuality. |
Nancy Garden |
The Year They Burned the Books, 1999 |
When high-school senior Jamie Crawford writes an editorial in favor of a health curriculum that includes condom distribution and frank discussion of homosexuality, she becomes embroiled in a controversy that leads to violence. |
Sue Hines |
Out of the Shadows, 2000 |
Sassy humor leavens some of the serious concerns as three high-school friends grapple with sexual identity. |
Carol Plum-Ucci |
What Happened to Lani Garver, 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 her own. |
Sara Ryan |
Empress of the World, 2001 |
While attending a summer institute, fifteen-year-old Nic meets another girl named Battle, falls in love with her, and finds the relationship to be difficult and confusing. |
Alex Sanchez |
Rainbow Boys, 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. |
William Taylor |
Blue Lawn, 1999 |
The girls in David's small New Zealand town have him in their radar. At 15, he's handsome, smart, and really nice. But it's the new guy, Theo, who gets David's attention in this forthright story about same-sex attraction. |
Garret Weyr |
My Heartbeat, 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. A story of first loves. |
Ellen Wittlinger |
Hard Love, 1999 |
John thinks he's immune to emotional attachment until he meets bright, brittle Marisol. But Marisol is gay and just wants to be friends. Funny, reflective, and poignant. |
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Title Author |
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Being Different: Lambda Youth Speaks Out |
Larry Dane Brimmer |
Children of Horizons : how gay and lesbian teens are leading a new way out of the closet. |
Gilbert Herdt, Andrew Boxer. |
Coping with Your Sexual Orientation |
D.A. Miller, A. Waigandt |
Gay and Lesbian Rights: a Reference Handbook |
David E. Newton |
Gay & Lesbian You |
Gail B. Stewart |
Gay Men, Lesbians, and the Law |
Ruthann Robson |
Gay Rights |
Tamara L. Roleff, Editor |
Growing Up Gay: a Literary Anthology |
Bennet L. Singer, Editor |
Hearing Us Out: Voices from the Gay and Lesbian Community |
Roger Sutton |
The Journey Out: a Guide for and about Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual Teens |
Rachel Pollack and |
One Teenager in Ten: Writings by Gay and Lesbian Youth |
Ann Heron, Editor |
Understanding Sexual Identity: a Book for Gay Teens and Their Friends |
Janice E. Rench |
When Someone You Know is Gay |
Susan & Daniel Cohen |
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Title Author |
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Annie on My Mind |
Nancy Garden |
The Arizona Kid |
Ron Koertge |
Baby Be-Bop |
Francesca Lia Block |
The Course of True Love Never Did Run Smooth |
Marilyn Singer |
Dance on My Grave: a Life and a Death in Four Parts |
Aidan Chambers |
Deliver Us from Evie |
M. E. Kerr |
Dive |
Stacey Donovan |
From the Notebooks of Melanin Sun |
Jacqueline Woodson |
Good Moon Rising |
Nancy Garden |
"Hello," I Lied: a Novel |
M. E. Kerr |
Jack |
A. M. Homes |
Lark in the Morning |
Nancy Garden |
The Method |
Paul Robert Walker |
My Father's Scar |
Michael Cart |
Night Kites |
M. E. Kerr |
No Big Deal |
Ellen Jaffe McClain |
My Life as a Body |
Norma Klein |
Now That I Know |
Norma Klein |
Ruby: a Novel |
Rosa Guy |
Trying Hard to Hear You |
Sandra Scoppettone |
Unlived Affections |
George Shannon |