Posted by: John on: September 29, 2009
Visible: A Femmethology. 2v. Ed. Jennifer Clare Burke. 2009. 181p/171p. Homofactus Press, $19.95 ea. (9780978597344/978-0-9785973-5-1). Gr. 11-12. Through their diverse experiences, 57 contributors—female, male, and trans–challenge conventional ideas of how disability, class, nationality, race, aesthetics, sexual orientation, gender identity, body type, and age intersect with notions of femmedom to celebrate its diversity. The narratives about […]
Posted by: John on: September 29, 2009
Van de Vendel, Edward & Martijn van der Linden. For You and No One Else. 2009. unp. Lemniscaat/Boyds Mills Press, $16.95. (978-1-59078-658-1). Gr. K-2. Buck is crushed when his friend, Sparklehart, uses the special gift presented to him by Buck to woo all the does but cheers up when he finds an even better gift […]
Posted by: John on: September 29, 2009
Urrea, Luis Alberto. Into the Beautiful North. 2009. 342p. Little, $24.99. (978-0-316-02527-0). Gr. 10-12. One night the people in a small coastal Mexican town watch Yul Brenner; the next day, three teenage girls and a gay man plan to sneak into the United States to find seven brave men who will save their village from […]
Posted by: John on: September 29, 2009
Urrea, Luis Alberto. Into the Beautiful North. 2009. 342p. Little, $24.99. (978-0-316-02527-0). Gr. 10-12. One night the people in a small coastal Mexican town watch Yul Brenner; the next day, three teenage girls and a gay man plan to sneak into the United States to find seven brave men who will save their village from […]
Posted by: John on: September 29, 2009
Rickards, Lynne. Pink! Il. Margaret Chamberlain. 2009. unp. Chicken House/Scholastic, $16.99. (978-0-545-08608-0). Gr. K-2. What’s a bright pink penguin to do? Well, after doctor who tells Patrick that there is nothing she can do, his father suggests he live with the pink flamingos. He can’t fit in with them because he cannot catch fish the […]
Posted by: John on: September 29, 2009
Milk: A Pictorial History of Harvey Milk. Int. Dustin Lance Black; Forewrd. Armistead Maupin. 2009. 144p. Newmarket Press, $19.95. (978-1-55704-828-8). Gr. 10-12. In 1977, when Harvey Milk was elected to the San Francisco Board of Supervisors, he was the first openly gay man to be voted into a major public office in the United States. […]
Posted by: John on: September 29, 2009
Gonzalez, Rigoberto. The Mariposa Club. 2009. 216p. Alyson, $14.95. (978-1-59350-106-8). Gr. 10-12. During their final years in high school, the Fierce Foursome—Maui, Trini, Isaac, and Lib—want to memorialize their high schools years by creating Caliente Valley High School’s first LGBT organization, the Mariposa Club, an action that brings out a mix of love from some […]
Posted by: John on: September 29, 2009
Alsenas, Linas. Hello My Name Is Bob. 2009. unp. Scholastic, $16.99. 978-0-545-05244-3). Gr. PreS-K. Self-claimed “boring” Bob has a lively panda bear friend Jack. Bob sits, hums, knits, dusts his plants, cooks, and does the laundry while Jack dances, explores the jungle, plays in a band, and surfs before he convinces Bob to go with […]
Posted by: kthorning on: September 21, 2009
Williams, David. The Boy in the Dress. Illustrated by Quentin Blake. Razorbill, 2009. 9781595142993 Ages 8-11 Twelve-year-old Dennis is a star soccer player coming to terms with the fact that he enjoys wearing dresses. He lives with his gruff dad and older brother, neither of whom understand or accept his fascination with Vogue magazine. Dennis […]
Posted by: blogando on: September 19, 2009
Marino, Peter. Magic and Misery. Holiday House, 2009. 978-0-8234-6. $17.95. Grades 8-12. James transferred into Mungers Mills High School during his junior year and ate by himself in the cafeteria until Toni Jo–TJ–got up the gumption to introduce herself one day when she found out that it was both of their birthdays. She describes her […]