Posted by: John on: November 8, 2009
Rouse, Wade. At Least in the City Someone Would Hear Me Scream: Misadventures in Search of the Simple Life. 2009. 301p. Harmony House, $23.99. (978-0-307-45190-3). Gr. 10-12. This hilarious memoir by the author of America’s Boy, an earlier Rainbow selection, covers a year in Michigan when Rouse and his partner, Gary, leave their city home […]
Posted by: John on: November 8, 2009
Silag, Lucy. Wanderlust: A Beautiful Americans Novel. 2009. 277p. RazorBill, $16.99. (978-1-59514-223-8). Gr. 10-12. Alex, Jay, Zack, and Olivia—American exchange high school students at a Paris school—search throughout the French countryside for their friend, Penelope Jane (aka PJ) who finds herself in danger when she finds her sister. But PJ is not the only one […]
Posted by: John on: November 8, 2009
Stevenson, Robin. Inferno. 2009. 229p. Orca, $12.95. (978-1-55469-077-0). Gr. 9-12. At 14, Emily lived in a city, enjoying the freedom. A little more than a year later, she is alone in a conservative high school after Beth, her best friend and secret lover, moved away. Her solution to this misery is to change her name […]
Posted by: John on: November 8, 2009
Pyron, Bobbie. The Ring. 2009. 253p. Westside Books, $15.95. (978-1-934813-09-6). Angry to the point of self-destruction, 15-year-old Mardie loses her resentment of her “perfect” older brother, Michael, when she takes up boxing and then discovers that Michael is gay. Through her training to gain strategy and mental discipline in the ring, Mardie works through her […]
Posted by: John on: November 8, 2009
Borris, Albert. Crash into Me. 2009. 257p. Simon Pulse, $16.99. (978-1-4169-7435-2). Gr. 10-12. Four teenagers—who connect on the internet—take an odyssey across the United States to visit the sites of celebrity suicides before they kill themselves in Death Valley. The four in the suicide pact couldn’t be more different: isolated Owen, the narrator; lying Audrey, […]
Posted by: John on: November 8, 2009
Tomas, J. Without Sin. 2009. 240p. Prizm, $13.95. (1-60370-684-4). Gr. 10-12. Sixteen-year-old Jacob Smithson, a boy with a temper, falls passionately in lust—and love—with 18-year-old Avery Dendritch on the first day of classes at St. Thomas Aquinas Catholic Boarding School for Boys where he was sent after being kicked out of public school for fighting. […]
Posted by: John on: November 8, 2009
Drummond, Mara Christine. Transitions: A Guide to Transitioning for Transsexuals and Their Families. 2009. 127p. Lulu.com, $16.50. (978-0-557-05261-5). Gr. 10+. People who have a gender identity that differs from their physical gender suffer a great deal of stress in determining what steps to take for a happier life. Drummond provides a dispassionate directive that begins […]
Posted by: kthorning on: November 1, 2009
Whatling, Michael. A Vigil for Joe Rose: Stories of Being Out in High School. 2009. 201 p. iUniverse, $15.95 (9781440107855-9), Gr 9-12. Whatling gathered life stories about what it was like to be out in high school from seven male students in Montreal, and retold their stories in this volume, maintaining as much of their […]
Posted by: Laurie on: October 31, 2009
Polito, Frank Anthony. Drama Queers! 2009. 416 p. Kensington, $15.00 (9780758231642). Gr. 9-12. You don’t have to a be a thespian to enjoy the transformation of band fag Bradley Dayton to “Brad-licious” when he is smitten by the acting bug. Determined to become a star his senior year, Brad is the diva of drama queers, […]