Category: YA Fiction (Young Adult)

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From the Notebooks of Melanin Sun by Jacqueline Woodson

Jacqueline Woodson | From the Notebooks of Melanin Sun |

Melanin Sun’s mother has some big news: she’s in love with a woman. Now he has many decisions to make: Should he stand by his mother even though

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How Beautiful The Ordinary by Michael Cart; Francesca Lia Block; David Levithan; Ron Koertge; Eric Shanower; Julie Anne Peters; Jennifer Finney Boylan; William Sleater; Emma Donoghue

Michael Cart; Francesca Lia Block; David Levithan; Ron Koertge; Eric Shanower; Julie Anne Peters; Jennifer Finney Boylan; William Sleater; Emma Donoghue | How Beautiful The Ordinary | A girl thought to be a boy steals her sister’s skirt, while a boy thought to be a girl refuses to wear a cornflower blue dress. One boy’s love of a so

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Heart On My Sleeve by Ellen Wittlinger

Ellen Wittlinger | Heart On My Sleeve | From the end of high school to the beginning of college, Chloe and Julian deal with major changes in their families and friendships and explore their

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Silhouette Of A Sparrow by Molly Beth Griffin

Molly Beth Griffin | Silhouette Of A Sparrow | In the summer of 1926, sixteen-year-old Garnet Richardson is sent to a lake resort to escape the polio epidemic in the city. She dreams of indulging i

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Heart on My Sleeve by Ellen Wittlinger

Ellen Wittlinger | Heart on My Sleeve | ‘I’m not picking Cartwright just because I met Julian there. For all I know he’ll change his mind and not even go! Although that would be a shame beca

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The Road To Her by KE Payne

KE Payne | The Road To Her | Sparks fly when twenty-year-old Holly Croft, star of the UK soap Portobello Road, meets Elise Manford, the actress who’s going to play her on-screen l

Posted in Anthology - Fiction YA Fiction (Young Adult)

Not the Only One by Jane Summer

Jane Summer | Not the Only One |

This revised edition of Alyson’s groundbreaking anthology for gay and lesbian teens features new original fiction which reflect both the tension an

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The House You Pass on the Way by Jacqueline Woodson

Jacqueline Woodson | The House You Pass on the Way | Thirteen-year-old Staggerlee used to be called Evangeline, but she took on a fiercer name. She’s always been different–set apart by the tragic deaths

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Grl2Grl by Julie Anne Peters

Julie Anne Peters | Grl2Grl | In this honest, emotionally captivating short story collection, renowned author and National Book Award finalist Julie Anne Peters offers a stunning p

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Crush by Jane Futcher

Jane Futcher | Crush | In her final year at a prestigious boarding school, reserved, artistic Jinx is badly hurt by the treachery of the rich, pretty girl she has considered