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Author
Series
Aristotle and Dante volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 2.9 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
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Books for Aspiring Readers
Hispanic Heritage Month for Teens
Rainy Day Reads
Stonewall Book Award - Young Adult
Hispanic Heritage Month for Teens
Rainy Day Reads
Stonewall Book Award - Young Adult
Description
Aristotle is an angry teen with a brother in prison. Dante is a know-it-all who has an unusual way of looking at the world. When the two meet at the swimming pool, they seem to have nothing in common. But as the loners start spending time together, they discover that they share a special friendship-the kind that changes lives and lasts a lifetime. And it is through this friendship that Ari and Dante will learn the most important truths about themselves...
2) Pride colors
Author
Publisher
Orca Book Publishers
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Through gentle rhymes and colorful photographs of adorable children, Pride Colors is a celebration of the deep unconditional love of a parent or caregiver for a young child. The profound message of this delightful board book is you are free to be whoever you choose to be; you'll always be loved.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Appears on list
Formats
Description
A chorus of men who died of AIDS observes and yearns to help a cross-section of today's gay teens who navigate new love, long-term relationships, coming out, self-acceptance, and more in a society that has changed in many ways.
Author
Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
A writer for Time magazine, after coming out to his parents as a gay man, documents his personal journey, from Brooklyn to California, to discover the God forbidden to him because of his sexuality and understand what the diverse followers of Christ believe about homosexuality. An intellectual, emotional, and spiritual pilgrimage that reveals a nation in crisis.
Author
Series
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
c2013
Language
English
Description
Is homosexuality unnatural? Does the Bible condemn it? Are people born gay (and should it matter either way)? Corvino approaches such questions with precision, sensitivity, and good humor. In the process, he makes a fresh case for moral engagement, forcefully rejecting the idea that morality is a "private matter." This book appears at a time when same-sex marriage is being hotly debated across the U.S. Many people object to such marriage on the grounds...
Author
Publisher
Harper Teen, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
"If you asked anyone in his small Vermont town, they’d tell you the facts: James Liddell, star athlete, decent student, and sort-of boyfriend to cute, peppy Theresa, is a happy, funny, carefree guy. But whenever James sits down at his desk to write, he tells a different story. As he fills his drawers with letters to the people in his world -- letters he never intends to send -- he spills the truth: he’s trying hard, but he just isn't into Theresa....
7) Conversion
Publisher
Gravitas Ventures
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
Looks at the practice of conversion therapy.
Author
Series
Openly straight volume 1
Publisher
Arthur A. Levine Books
Pub. Date
2013
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
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Description
Tired of being known as "the gay kid", Rafe Goldberg decides to assume a new persona when he comes east and enters an elite Massachusetts prep school--but trying to deny his identity has both complications and unexpected consequences.
Author
Publisher
Broadleaf Books, an imprint of 1517 Media
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
In Outlove, Julie Rodgers details her deeply personal journey from a life of self-denial in the name of faith to her role in leading the take-down of Exodus International, the largest ex-gay organization in the world, to her marriage to a woman at the Washington National Cathedral. Rodgers's story sheds light on the debate between Evangelical Christians and the LGBTQ community, ultimately casting a hopeful vision for how the church can heal.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
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LGBTQIA+ Young Adult Fiction
Libros para celebrar el mes del Orgullo LGBTQ+
NYT - Young Adult
Teen Romance
Libros para celebrar el mes del Orgullo LGBTQ+
NYT - Young Adult
Teen Romance
Formats
Description
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.
Author
Publisher
Children's Book Press
Pub. Date
2005
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
With Mother's Day coming, Antonio finds he has to decide about what is important to him when his classmates make fun of the unusual appearance of his mother's partner, Leslie.
12) Ode to Billy Joe
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
A seventeen-year-old boy, fearing he might be gay, commits suicide in rural 1950's Mississippi.
13) We are the ants
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
[2016]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
Abducted by aliens periodically throughout his youth, Henry Denton is informed by his erstwhile captors that they will end the world in 144 days unless he stops them by deciding that humanity is worth saving.
After the suicide of his boyfriend, Henry deals with depression and family issues, all while wondering if he was really abducted and told he has 144 days to decide whether or not the world is worth saving.
14) Moonlight
Publisher
A24 / Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
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Formats
Description
A young black man struggles to find his place in the world while growing up in a rough neighborhood of Miami.
15) Another country
Language
English
Description
A rueful, romantic tale of the awfulness of life in an ancient English public school in the 1930's. At its center is the friendship of Guy Bennett (Rupert Everett), a dark, Byronically handsome young man, who accepts the horrors of the school system in return for its rewards, and Tommy Judd (Colin Firth), who attends the school against his will, refuses to play the gentleman's game, and is already a Marxist. Guy falls in love with a handsome fellow...
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