 | 13: Thirteen Stories That Capture the Agony and Ecstasy of Being Thirteen
Howe, James (ed)
No one will want to skip any of the twelve short stories and one poem that make up this collection by some of the most celebrated contemporary writers of teen fiction. The big bar mitzvah that goes suddenly, wildly, hilariously out of control. A first kiss – and a realization about one's sexual orientation. A crush on a girl that ends up putting the boy who likes her in the hos (more...) |
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 | 21 Proms
Levithan, David & Ehrenhaft, Daniel
Prom. It's a near-universal high school experience. And here at least 21 of today's bestselling and up-and-coming YA authors riff on it.
Authors include: Libba Bray, Jacqueline Woodson, Ned Vizzini, John Green, Sarah Mylnowski, Melissa de la Cruz, Holly Black, Brent Hartinger, Lisa Sandell, Will Leitch, Leslie Margolis, Cecily von Ziegessar, E. Lockhart, Jodi Anderson, Dav (more...) |
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 | 365 Days
Payne, K.E.
One mixed-up girl, one dull boy, two hot distractions. How does one figure it all out?
Life sucks when you’re sixteen years old, confused about your sexuality, and the girl of your dreams doesn’t even know you exist. The sudden entrance of a hot new emo at school only adds to the confusion.
Clemmie Atkins thinks she's in love with her school friend, the mysterious and al (more...) |
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 | 7 Days at the Hot Corner
Trueman, Terry
In baseball, fielding your position at third base is tricky—that's why third is called "the hot corner." You have to be aware that anything can happen at any time.
This should be the best year of Scott's life: It's his last season of varsity ball, his team is about to go to the city championship, and a pro career is on the line. Instead, everything he always counted on comes (more...) |
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 | About a Girl
Horniman, Joanne
I remember the first time that we lay together and I felt the crackle of her dark hair between my fingers, and closed my eyes and breathed her in, so that she became my entire world.
Anna is afraid she must be unlovable - until she meets Flynn. Together, the girls swim, eat banana cake, laugh and love. Some days Flynn is unreachable; other days she's at Anna's window - but w (more...) |
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 | Absolutely, Positively Not
LaRochelle, David
Grades 4 – Up
Steven's a 16-year-old boy with two obsessions: sex and getting his driving license. The problem is, Steven's not thinking girls when he's thinking sex. Could he be – don't say it – gay? Steven sets out to get in touch with his inner he-man with Healthy Heterosexual Strategies such as "Start Hanging Out with the Guys," and "Begin Intensive Dating." But are Stev (more...) |
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 | AIDS: Health Issues
Whelan, Jo
This book explains in simple tems what HIV is and how it attacks the immune system. It looks at the methods of spread, the myths and the reality, and it gives clear advice on prevention. There is also a chapter on testing and treatment. The book looks at how AIDS has spread all over the world, and the different stages of the AIDS disease are set out from first emergence to deat (more...) |
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 | Alex As Well
Brugman, Alyssa
What do you do when everybody says you’re someone you’re not?
Alex wants change. Massive change. More radical than you could imagine.
Her mother is not happy, in fact she’s imploding. Her dad walked out.
Alex has turned vegetarian, ditched one school, enrolled in another, thrown out her clothes. And created a new identity. An identity that changes her world.
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 | Allison: A Story of First Love
Strelkoff, Tatiana
When she moves to a new city, Karen meets Allison - and true love blossoms for them both for the first time. But how can they live with this strange love? Or is it strange? Allison's parents are supportive, but what about Karen's? Mom wants everybody to be happy while Dad wants everything 'normal'. Things become very sticky when a schoolmate threatens Karen and thrusts her int (more...) |
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 | Am I Blue: Coming Out of the Silence
Bauer, Marion Dane
A carefully selected collection of stories for young adults which deal openly with homosexuality. Includes Leslea Newman, Nancy Garden, Bruce Coville, ME Kerr and William Sleator. (more...) |
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 | Among Other Things, I've Taken Up Smoking
Sweeney, Aoibheann
Miranda's father has always seemed to her as obscure and elusive as the thick New England fog that surrounds their isolated island home. When she was three years old, her parents moved from Manhattan to tiny Crab Island off the coast of Maine so he could work on his translation of Ovid's Metamorphoses. Not long after, her mother took the boat out one day, disappeared into the f (more...) |
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 | And Then I Became Gay: Young Men's Stories
Savin-Williams, Ritch
This work examines the lives of young men who express the complications, adversities and satisfactions of being gay or bisexual in North America today. Written by a psychologist the book has a theoretical orientation but is interspersed with the personal stories of gay youth. Aimed at educators, youth workers and others involved with gay/bi youth. (more...) |
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 | Andy Squared
Lavoie, Jennifer
Seventeen-year-old twins, Andrew and Andrea Morris, have always been close. They share everything—from their friends to a room—and they both enjoy star positions on their high school’s soccer teams. All’s right with the twins...or is it?
When new student Ryder Coltrane moves from Texas to their small New York town, he spins Andrew’s world upside down. All of Andrew’s past re (more...) |
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 | Annie On My Mind
Garden, Nancy
25th Anniversary edition
This groundbreaking book, first published in 1982, is the story of two teenage girls whose friendship blossoms into love and who, despite pressures from family and school that threaten their relationship, promise to be true to each other and their feelings.
Of the author and the book, the Margaret A. Edwards Award committee said, Nancy Garden h (more...) |
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 | Another 365 Days
Payne, K.E.
Life’s sweet when you’re seventeen and in love, right? Clemmie Atkins certainly thinks so! She’s still madly in love with her girlfriend, the hot and super-confident EMO, Hannah Harrison, and her irritating sister, HRBH, will soon be leaving home to go to university.
But just when it seems that life is finally pretty darn cool, a new distraction at school threatens to upset (more...) |
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 | Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe
Saenz, Benjamin Alire
May 2013
Winner Stonewall Book Award 2013
ALA Recommended 2012
12 years and up
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 s (more...) |
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 | Arizona Kid
Koertge, Ron
I was in the West. The Old West. The Wild West! A whole summer in a new place: a place away from my parents, a place so hot the girls probably wore bikinis to church, a place where I'd take a giant step toward my dream: becoming a vet. A place where -- who knows? -- anything might happen.
From the moment sixteen-year-old Billy steps off the train in Tucson, he knows this wil (more...) |
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 | Ash
Lo, Malinda
In the world of Ash, fairies are an older race of people who walk the line between life and death, reality and magic. As orphaned Ash grows up, a servant in her stepmother's home, she begans to realise that her beloved mother, Elinor was very much in tune with these underworld folk, and that she herself has the power to see them too. Against the sheer misery of her stepm (more...) |
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 | Ask the Passengers
King, A.S.
ALA Recommended 2012
Astrid Jones desperately wants to confide in someone, but her mother's pushiness and her father's lack of interest tell her they're the last people she can trust. Instead, Astrid spends hours lying on the backyard picnic table watching airplanes fly overhead. She doesn't know the passengers inside, but they're the only people who won't judge her when she (more...) |
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 | Athletic Shorts: Six Short Stories
Crutcher, Chris
Six short stories, five of them about characters from Crutcher's novels. The protagonists are involved in sports, but the real theme is growing--grappling with something tough and finding the courage to carry on. For instance, in ``A Brief Moment in the Life of Angus Bethune'' (originally published in Connections, 1989, edited by Don Gallo), huge Angus has been elected Senior W (more...) |
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 | Awakening - Heidt
Heidt, Yvonne
Sunny Skye, a psychic medium, is the head investigator and founder of Sisters of Spirits, a paranormal society dedicated to helping others understand what they can’t see. She is excellent at finding ghosts but finds it difficult to cope in the real world. When she meets Jordan, she is instantly attracted and completely unnerved by the personal demons she carries around with her (more...) |
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 | Baby Be-Bop
Block, Francesca Lia
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. (Harper) (more...) |
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 | Bait
Sanchez, Alex
When a guy in his class looks at him funny, Diego punches him in the face, and ends up on probation. At first he wants nothing to do with his probation officer. But as Diego starts to open up, he begins to realize that Mr. Vidas is the first person in his life who ever really wanted to listen to him. With Vidas's help, Diego begins to make real progress in controlling his anger (more...) |
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 | Beat Goes On
Mincin, Adele
When Leyla's cousin, Emma wakes her with the news that she is HIV +tive, she is determined to help even if she has sworn not to discuss it with anyone.
Realistic and compelling novel about learning to live with HIV. Ages 14+ (more...) |
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 | Beautiful Music for Ugly Children
Kirstin Cronn-Mills
ALA Recommended 2012
"This is Beautiful Music for Ugly Children, on community radio 90.3, KZUK. I’m Gabe. Welcome to my show."
My birth name is Elizabeth, but I’m a guy. Gabe. My parents think I’ve gone crazy and the rest of the world is happy to agree with them, but I know I’m right. I’ve been a boy my whole life.
When you think about it, I’m like a record. Elizabeth (more...) |
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