Where’s My Wand?: One Boy’s Magical Tri- umph Over Alienation and Shag Carpeting by If we do not have what you’re Eric Poole looking for, let us know and Rainbow Grades 10 & up (YA B Poole) Poole’s witty memoir of growing up as a , we can have another library Bewitched-obsessed boy in 1970s St. Louis recalls David Sedaris’ unfailingly funny takes on send it over for you! List family wackiness.

Scars by Cheryl Rainfield Grades 9 & up (YA Rainfield) The Hour Between by Sebastian Stuart Fifteen-year-old Kendra is a budding artist who Grades 10 & up (YA Stuart) has far too many secrets. Not only does she cut Arthur McDougal’s friendship with the charming herself, she is grappling with her childhood sexual but troubled Katrina Felt at the Spooner School abuse and her burgeoning sexuality. for the disciplinary challenged helps him come to terms with his sexuality. Batwoman: Elegy by Greg Rucka Grades 10 & up (YA G Batwoman) As Batwoman, Kate must battle the most dangerous criminals in Gotham while as Kate The Gallup’s Modern Guide to Gay, Kane, Batwoman must deal with coming to grips & Life by various authors with her own sexual identity and fight her own Grades 7 & up (YA 200.86 SAN) personal war while dealing with the new A series of informative non-fiction titles which super-criminal Alice, who’s determined to take her discuss celebrations and challenges of living as down. an person.

Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell by Jeff Sheng Greades 9 & up A poignant photographic essay dedicated to the Kiss by Jacqueline Wilson brave LGBTQ military personnel who serve under Grades 6-9 (YA Wilson) “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell”. Each person’s face is Sylvie has always imagined spending her life 2011 Titles with her best friend, Carl, first as a couple and artfully hidden, helping to express their feelings of 2010 list available upon request. isolation and loneliness. then as husband and wife. As she realizes Carl is gay and will never really become her God Loves Hair by Vivek Shrya boyfriend, she must reconsider her feelings and Current, well-written books with Grades 10 & up her friendship with him. Vignettes tell the tale of Vivek, a young man who Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, struggles with his sexuality, preferring to wear his Transgendered & mother’s beautiful sari and lipstick. He endures Questioning content. physical, emotional and verbal abuse in school, Visit our Book List Binder in the only to be saved by his faith…when things are Teen Space for more titles, series bad during the week, he knows that Sunday will Presented by the GLBT & Social information, and book covers! Responsibilities Round Tables of the come and no matter what, his gods love him and American Library Association appreciate all that he is. http://blogs.ala.org/glbtrt.php?cat=441 To report, learn about, or Robin and Ruby by K. M. Soehnlein discuss abuse call the Grades 10 & up (YA Soehnlein) National Domestic Violence hotline Old Bridge Public Library Aspiring actor Robin has just left his lover, Peter, Central Branch when his sister, Ruby, goes missing. Robin 1-800-799-SAFE One Old Bridge Plaza, searches for her, accompanied by his long-time or visit www.ndvh.org Municipal Center friend, George, to whom, Robin discovers, he is Route 516 and Cottrell becoming romantically attracted. If you are in crisis, call Road 1-800-SUICIDE (732) 721-5600 ext 5028 4 04/11 ME 5 www.oldbridgelibrary.org The Accidental Adventures of India McAllister Out by Sandra Diersch Jumpstart the World by Catherine Ryan Hyde by Charlotte Agell Grades 9 & up (YA PBK FIC Diersch) Grades 9 & up (YA Hyde) Grades 5-8 (JF Agell) Canadian teenager Alex must confront his latent Teenage Ellie falls in love with her next-door An illustrated diary-like account of things that homophobia when his younger brother comes out to neighbor Frank, and then, to her dismay, India McAllister loves like her dog Tofu, her best him. discovers that he is transgender. friend, Colby, and other things…well, she’s not so sure about, like Amanda the Rodent and Richard, The Popularity Papers: Research for the her dad’s boyfriend. Wildthorn by Jane Eagland Social Improvement and General Betterment Grades 9 & up (YA Eagland) of Lydia Goldblatt and Julie Graham-Chang by The Nearest Exit May Be Behind You by Louisa Cosgrove, a high-spirited young lady in Amy Ignatow S. Bear Bergman nineteenth century England, loves her cousin Grace Grades 6-8 (JF Ignatow) Grades 10 & up (305.3 BER) and longs to be a doctor. A plot devised by Best friends, Julie and Lydia, try to determine the A collection of personal essays from a someone close to her puts her in an insane asylum, secrets to popularity and record their observations transmasculine perspective, featuring topics such doubting her own identity. and schemes in a secret notebook. The result is a as , family, identity and religion. hilarious, delightfully illustrated guide to surviving middle school and figuring out what friendship Will by Maria Boyd Let’s Get this Straight: The Ultimate Handbook really means. Grades 9-12 (YA Boyd) for Youth with LGBTQ Parents by Tina High school jock and all-around popular guy Will Fakhrid-Deen with COLAGE Love Drugged by James Klise Armstrong moons a bus full of girls and is Grades 6 & up (YA 306.874 FAK) Grades 10 & up (YA Klise) assigned community service which includes Reaching out through the voices of youth in GLBTQ What if there were a drug that could “cure” joining the school band and helping out with the households, this handbook gives kids the tools to homosexuality? Deeply closeted teen Jamie is musical. While serving his time, he is befriended deal with the uniqueness of living with LGBTQ about to find out what could happen! This is a fast by a gay boy and is forced to reconsider his own parents, including how to deal with the bigotry and -paced novel with an intriguing premise. stereotypical views of what it means to be a man. hatred of others, overcoming discrimination, and building self-esteem. Kicked Out by Sassafras Lowrey Very LeFreak by Rachel Cohn Grades 9 & up Grades 9 & up (YA Cohn) Will Grayson, Will Grayson by John Green & Homeless lgbt-q youth share their stories of With a playlist for every moment, and the need for David Levithan surviving on the streets and finding places of her tech buzzing in her veins, can Very unplug Grades 9 & up (YA Green) sanctuary in creating their own chosen families enough to discover what her heart really wants On a cold Chicago night, two sixteen-year-olds - and community. before it’s too late and take a chance at real love? one gay and one not - meet and discover they have one big thing in common, their name. From then on, The Less-Dead by April Lurie Stuck Rubber Baby by Howard Cruse their lives, their friends and their loves intertwine Grades 9 & up (YA Lurie) Grades 10 & up (YA G Cruse) and culminate in the staging of one of the funniest When Noah’s friend Will is murdered by a killer While fighting for civil rights in the 1960s South, high school musicals ever. targeting homeless gay teens, Noah sets out to Toland fights the realization that he is gay, and find the murderer. has to deal with the idea and the change in his own thoughts and personal identity. Monday Hearts for Madalene by Page Hodel Me by Ricky Martin Grades 7-12 (YA 745.5 HOD) Grades 9 & up (B Martin) Unbearable Lightness by Portia de Rossi Whether spoken, written or shared in beautiful heart Not the usual celebrity biography with glamour Grades 9 & up (791.4502 DER) -shaped collages, Page Hodel reminds us love shots, Martin instead keeps it real and shares his Coming to terms with coming out and the begets love and she lets her hearts tell her story. experience of coming out as gay Latino and the damaging perceptions of commercial beauty, she importance of self-acceptance and community shares her story of recovery from her eating service. disorder and her self-acceptance. A Love Story Starring My Dead Best Friend by Emily Horner The Death-Defying Pepper Roux by Geraldine Of All The Stupid Things by Alexandra Diaz Grades 9 & up (YA Horner) McCaughrean Grades 10 & up (YA Diaz) Following the death of her best friend Julia, Cass Grades 5-8 (YA McCaughrean) When Tara learns that her boyfriend may be gay, finds herself involved in a project to produce the Embarked on a dangerous voyage on the high she is devastated. But then - when she finds musical Julia wrote. Betrayed loyalties and school seas, fourteen-year-old Pepper is befriended by a herself attracted to a new girl, Riley - she is forced bullies set Cass off on a journey where she finds kindhearted, cross-dressing steward with the im- to examine her own sexuality. self-awareness and acceptance. probable name of Duchesse. Adventures abound!

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