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Rainbow Reads - LGTBQ Titles for Teens @ BPL

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Fiction

• 7 Days at the Hot Corner , by Terry Trueman
• Absolute Brightness, by James Lecesne
• Absolutely, Positively Not, by David Larochelle
• Alt Ed, by Karen Atkins
• Am I Blue? Coming Out From the Silence (stories), by Marion Dane Bauer
• Annie on My Mind , by Nancy Garden
• Another Kind of Cowboy , by Susan Juby
• Arizona Kid, by Ron Koertge
• Beautiful Boys: Two Weetzie Bat Books, by Francesca Lia Block
• Bermudez Triangle, by Maureen Johnson
• Between Mom & Jo, by Julie Anne Peters
• Boy Girl Boy, by Ron Koertge
• Boy Meets Boy, by David Levithan
• Center of the World, by Andreas Steinhofel
• Claiming Georgia Tate (stories), by Gigi Amateau
• Crush, by Carrie Mac
• Empress of the World, by Sara Ryan
• Freak Show, by James St. James
• From the Notebooks of Melanin Sun, by Jacqueline Woodson
• Geography Club, by Brent Hartinger
• Girl Goddess: 9 Stories, by Francesca Lia Block
• Grl2grl: Short Fictions, by Julie Anne Peters
• Hard Love, by Ellen Wittlinger
• Hello Groin, by Beth Goobie
• How I Paid for College: A Novel of Sex, Theft, Friendship and Musical Theatre, by Marc Acito
• I was a Teenage Fairy , by Francesca Lia Block
• Is He or Isn’t He?, by John Hall
• Keeping You a Secret , by Julie Anne Peters
• Kissing Kate, by Lauren Myracle
• Luna, by Julie Anne Peters
• M or F?, by Lisa Papademetriou
• The Misfits, by James Howe
• Mosh Pit, by Kristyn Dunnion
• My Father’s Scar, by Michael Cart
• My Heartbeat, by Garret Freymann-Weyr
• Naomi and Ely’s No Kiss List, by Rachael Cohn
• No Big Deal, by Ellen Jaffe-Gill
• Not the Only One: Lesbian and Gay fiction for Teens, edited by Jane Summer
• One of Those Hideous Books Where the Mother Dies, by Sonya Sones
• Parrotfish, by Ellen Wittlinger
• Pretty Things, by Sara Manning
• Rainbow Boys (and other titles), by Alex Sanchez
• A Really Nice Prom Mess, by Brian Sloan
• Saints of Augustine, by P.E. Ryan
• Split Screen: Attack of the Soul Sucking Brain Zombies/Bride of the Soul Sucking Brain Zombies, by Brent Hartinger
• Stained, by Jennifer Jacobson
• Straight Road to Kylie, by Nico Medina
• Tale of Two Summers, by Brian Sloan
• Talk, by Kathe Koja
• Target, by Kathleen Jeffrie Johnson
• Totally Joe, by James Howe

Non-Fiction

• Free Your Mind: the Book for Gay, Lesbian and Bisexual Youth and Their Allies, by Ellen Bass
• Full Spectrum: A New Generation of Writing About Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender, Questioning and Other Identities, by David Leviathan
• GLBTQ: The Survival Guide for Queer and Questioning Teens, by Kelly Huegel
• Here Me Out: True Stories of Teens Educating and Confronting Homophobia. A Project of Planned Parenthood Toronto
• Hearing Us out: Voices from the Gay and Lesbian Community, by Roger Sutton
• How It Feels To Have A Gay Or Lesbian Parent: A Book by Kids for Kids of all Ages, by Judith E. Snow
• In Your Face: Stories From the Lives of Queer Youth, by Mary Gray
• Please Don’t Kill the Freshman: A Memoir , by Zoe Trope
• What if Someone I Know is Gay? Answers to Questions About What it Means to be Gay or Lesbian, by Eric Marcus