Category: YA Fiction (Young Adult)

Tony Grima | Not the Only One | From Booklist

Gr. 10^-12. The quality of writing here can’t match what’s found in Bauer’s Am I Blue? . None of these stories takes your breath awa

Ginna Wilkerson | Buried Secrets | When Emelia Behrends is caught in bed with her girlfriend Taylor by her strict Southern Baptist mother, she thinks nothing worse could ever happen. Bu

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

Maureen Johnson | On The Count Of Three | Since coming together at the age of eleven, Nina, Avery and Mel have never been apart. The summer before senior year, however, Nina goes away to a sum

Catherine Brett | S.P. likes A.D | ‘A fast moving short novel…Brett treats the topic of homosexuality in a matter of fact way.’ – Canadian Materials

Thirteen-year-old Stephan

Julie Anne Peters | Pretend You Love Me | In this fresh, poignant novel, Mike is struggling to come to terms with her father’s suicide and her mother’s detachment from the family. Mike (real n

Ellen Wittlinger | Hard Love | John Galardi is a loner, unable to express his feelings except in the pages of his zine, ‘Bananafish.’ He finds inspiration in another zine, ‘Escape V

Barbara L. Clanton | Art For Art’s Sake: Meredith’s Story | High school senior Meredith Bedford is a social outcast. Her family recently moved from the Catskill Mountains to the sprawling suburbs of Albany, the

Jenny Pausacker | Hide and Seek | In this passionate and thought-provoking collection some of Australia’s top writers explore the complex and ever-changing maze of sexuality. Contribut

Lyndsey D’Arcangelo | The Crabapple Tree | Busy Wheeler, a spirited tomboy who’s adopted and best friends with a mentally handicapped boy named Billy, is suddenly having strange feelings for th