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  • Hard Land by Benedict Wells

    Hard Land by Benedict Wells

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 20 ratings
    Missouri, 1985: Um vor den Problemen zu Hause zu fliehen, nimmt der fünfzehnjährige Sam einen Ferienjob in einem alten Kino an. Und einen magischen Sommer lang ist alles auf den Kopf gestellt. Er findet Freunde, verliebt sich und entdeckt die Geheimnisse seiner Heimatstadt. Zum ersten Mal ist er kein unscheinbarer Außenseiter mehr. Bis etwas passiert, das ihn zwingt, erwachsen zu werden...
  • অপেক্ষা by Humayun Ahmed

    অপেক্ষা by Humayun Ahmed

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    মানুষের জীবন কি চক্রের মত? চক্রের কোন শুরু নেই, শেষ নেই। মানব জীবনও কি তাই? রহস্যময় চক্রের ভেতর এই জীবন ঘুরপাক খেতে থাকে? শুরু নেই, শেষ নেই। চক্র ঘুরছে।এই চক্রের ভেতরে ঘুরপাক খেতে খেতে অপেক্ষা করে কেউ কেউ। কিংবা সকলেই কিসের...
  • Gay Club! by Simon James Green

    Gay Club! by Simon James Green

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    A landmark comedic novel about a group of queer teens at their worst - and ultimately their best - from one of the UK's leading writers of LGBTQ+ teen fiction. Barney's a shoo-in for his school's LGBTQ+ Society President at the club's next election. But when the vote is opened up to the entire student body, the whole school starts paying attention...
  • Two Boys Kissing by David Levithan

    Two Boys Kissing by David Levithan

    Rated: 4.12 of 5 stars
    · 31 ratings
    New York Times bestselling author David Levithan tells the based-on-true-events story of Harry and Craig, two 17-year-olds who are about to take part in a 32-hour marathon of kissing to set a new Guinness World Record—all of which is narrated by a Greek Chorus of the generation of gay men lost to AIDS...
  • Pumpkin by Julie Murphy

    Pumpkin by Julie Murphy

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    Waylon Russell Brewer is a fat, openly gay boy stuck in the small West Texas town of Clover City. His plan is to bide his time until he can graduate, move to Austin with his twin sister, Clementine, and finally go Full Waylon, so that he can live his Julie-the-hills-are-alive-with-the-sound-of-music-Andrews truth...
  • My Lame Life: Queen of the Misfits by Jen Mann

    My Lame Life: Queen of the Misfits by Jen Mann

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    New York Times bestselling author Jen Mann has written a hilarious and heartwarming story for fans of Meg Cabot and Rainbow Rowell. My name is Plum Parrish, I'm fourteen, and I'm pretty sure I'm invisible. Not like super power invisible, more like loser invisible. There's a big difference...
  • 3 stepbrothers by Animallover55

    3 stepbrothers by Animallover55

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Tori lived with her dad and little sister. She never expected to have a stepmother, much less a stepbrother. But whats worse is not only one stepbrother, not two either. No three stepbrothers. But it gets worse, the three boys just happen to be the three triplet sport stars of the school. The same three boys that have gone out with nearly all those girls that wear short short skirts...
  • My Maddy by Gayle E. Pitman

    My Maddy by Gayle E. Pitman

    Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    A child celebrates her Maddy, who is neither mommy nor daddy but a little bit of both, like so many things in nature. Includes note to parents...
  • Henry Hamlet's Heart by Rhiannon Wilde

    Henry Hamlet's Heart by Rhiannon Wilde

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    A sparkling queer YA romance set in Brisbane, Henry Hamlet’s Heart follows one guy and his sometimes hilarious, sometimes heartbreaking journey to love.Henry Hamlet doesn’t know what he wants after school ends. It’s his last semester of year twelve and all he’s sure of is his uncanny ability to make situations awkward. Luckily, he can always hide behind his enigmatic best friend, Len...
  • Fred Gets Dressed by Peter Brown

    Fred Gets Dressed by Peter Brown

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    From a New York Times bestselling author and Caldecott-honor winning artist comes an exuberant illustrated story about playing dress up, having fun, and feeling free.The boy loves to be naked. He romps around his house naked and wild and free. Until he romps into his parents' closet and is inspired to get dressed. First he tries on his dad's clothes, but they don't fit well...
  • On Herring Cove Road: Mr. Rosen and His 43Lb Anxiety by Michael Kroft

    On Herring Cove Road: Mr. Rosen and His 43Lb Anxiety by Michael Kroft

    Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Once an amusing extrovert with a reputation as a prankster, Mr. Rosen is entering his retirement years as a stoic thirty-year converted introvert who has no interest in people, despises change, and is more than content to have his wife navigate his life...
  • Five, Six, Seven, Nate! by Tim Federle

    Five, Six, Seven, Nate! by Tim Federle

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    The sequel to Better Nate Than Ever —a New York Times Book Review Notable Book of 2013, Publishers Weekly Flying Start and Best Book of 2013, and Amazon Best Book of 2013 ★ “This is an encore performance that will leave them standing in the aisles.” —Kirkus (starred review) ★ “[W]ill appeal to every budding theater geek...
  • The Wolves by Sarah DeLappe

    The Wolves by Sarah DeLappe

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Left quad. Right quad. Lunge. A girls indoor soccer team warms up. From the safety of their suburban stretch circle, the team navigates big questions and wages tiny battles with all the vim and vigor of a pack of adolescent warriors. A portrait of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness for nine American girls who just want to score some goals...
  • Caitlin's Lucky Charm by Lisa Schroeder

    Caitlin's Lucky Charm by Lisa Schroeder

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Four best friends, one lucky bracelet, and an utterly charming new middle-grade series!Caitlin would stay at summer camp forever if she could. Her new best friends in the world, Hannah, Mia, and Libby are there...
  • The Celebrants by Steven Rowley

    The Celebrants by Steven Rowley

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    A Big Chill for our times, celebrating decades-long friendships and promises--especially to ourselves--by the bestselling and beloved author of The Guncle. It's been a minute--or five years--since Jordan Vargas last saw his college friends, and twenty-eight years since their graduation when their adult lives officially began...
  • Your Corner Dark by Desmond Hall

    Your Corner Dark by Desmond Hall

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    American Street meets Long Way Down in this searing and gritty debut novel that takes an unflinching look at the harsh realities of gang life in Jamaica and how far a teen is willing to go for family.Things can change in a second:The second Frankie Green gets that scholarship letter, he has his ticket out of Jamaica.The second his longtime crush, Leah, asks him on a date, he’s in trouble...
  • Heartmates by Marcus Herzig

    Heartmates by Marcus Herzig

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    As childhood friends, Lars and Connor were inseparable. Now, in the social gauntlet of high school, neither boy can even muster a single word to the other. When Connor enters a romantic relationship with Jaden-Dominic Choi, the hottest social influencer in school, a barely healed wound is torn wide open again...
  • The Blue-Haired Boy by Courtney C. Stevens

    The Blue-Haired Boy by Courtney C. Stevens

    Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Set before the events of Courtney C. Stevens's debut novel, Faking Normal, this digital short story focuses on Bodee Lennox, otherwise known as the Kool-Aid Kid.Bodee Lennox has secrets. About where he got the four-inch scar on his leg. About the bruises on his back. About what it's really like to live in the Lennox household. These are things he doesn't share with anyone . .
  • Jumped In by Patrick Flores-Scott

    Jumped In by Patrick Flores-Scott

    Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Sam has the rules of slackerhood down: Don't be late to class. Don't ever look the teacher in the eye. Develop your blank stare. Since his mom left, he has become an expert in the art of slacking, especially since no one at his new school gets his intense passion for the music of the Pacific Northwest—Nirvana, Hole, Sleater-Kinney...
  • The Gossip File by Anna Staniszewski

    The Gossip File by Anna Staniszewski

    Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    The Gossip File:-Chandra lets little kids pee in the pool.-Melody stole $ from the cafe register.-Ava isn’t who she says she is…Ava is cool. Ava is confident. Ava is really Rachel Lee who is lying her butt off.Rachel is visiting her dad at a resort in sunny Florida and is ready for two weeks of relaxing poolside, trips to Disney World and NOT scrubbing toilets...
  • The Truth Project by Dante Medema

    The Truth Project by Dante Medema

    Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Seventeen-year-old Cordelia Koenig was sure of many things going into her last year of high school. For one, she wasn’t going to stress over the senior project all her peers were dreading—she’d just use the same find-your-roots genealogy idea that her older sister used for hers...
  • Totally Joe by James Howe

    Totally Joe by James Howe

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    Joe Bunch breaks down his life—and his secrets—for a school assignment in this second book of the funny, heartfelt, and beloved Misfits series by Bunnicula author James Howe.What can I say? I’m a total original. Joe may only be twelve-going-on-thirteen, but he’s known who he is from the time he was a little kid tottering around in his mother’s high heels...
  • Rainbow High by Alex Sanchez

    Rainbow High by Alex Sanchez

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    Jason Carrillo, the best-looking athlete in school, has had his eyes on the prize from day one: a scholarship for college. But then his eyes turn to love -- and Kyle. Kyle Meeks, swim team star and all-around good guy, is finally in the relationship he wanted. Being in love feels so good, in fact, that he can't imagine giving it up to go to Princeton...
  • True Letters from a Fictional Life by Kenneth Logan

    True Letters from a Fictional Life by Kenneth Logan

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 17 ratings
    If you asked anyone in his small Vermont town, they'd tell you the facts: James Liddell, star athlete, decent student and sort-of boyfriend to cute, peppy Theresa, is a happy, funny, carefree guy.But whenever James sits down at his desk to write, he tells a different story...
  • The Dirt Diary by Anna Staniszewski

    The Dirt Diary by Anna Staniszewski

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    WANTED: Maid for the most popular kids in 8th grade. Cleaning up after the in-crowd gets Rachel all the best dirt. Rachel can't believe she has to give up her Saturdays to scrubbing other people's toilets. So. Gross. But she kinda, sorta stole $287.22 from her college fund that she's got to pay back ASAP or her mom will ground her for life...
  • Twenty-Four Seconds from Now...A Love Story by Jason Reynolds

    Twenty-Four Seconds from Now...A Love Story by Jason Reynolds

    Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    Jason Reynolds tackles it—you know…it—from the guy’s perspective in this stream of consciousness story of a teen boy about to experience a huge first.Twenty-four months ago: Neon gets chased by a dog all around the parking lot of a church. Not his finest moment. And definitely one he would have loved to forget if it weren’t for the dog’s owner: Aria...
  • Between Perfect and Real by Ray Stoeve

    Between Perfect and Real by Ray Stoeve

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    A moving YA debut about a trans boy finding his voice—and himselfDean Foster knows he’s a trans guy. He’s watched enough YouTube videos and done enough questioning to be sure. But everyone at his high school thinks he’s a lesbian—including his girlfriend, Zoe, and his theater director, who just cast him as a “nontraditional” Romeo...
  • The [Un]popular Vote by Jasper Sanchez

    The [Un]popular Vote by Jasper Sanchez

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Vaseline on the teeth makes a smile shine. It’s a cheap stunt, but Mark Adams knows it’s optics that can win or ruin an election.Everything Mark learned about politics, he learned from his father, the congressman who still pretends he has a daughter and not a son. To protect his father’s image, Mark promises to keep his past hidden and pretend to be the cis guy everyone assumes he is...
  • Take a Bow, Noah Mitchell by Tobias Madden

    Take a Bow, Noah Mitchell by Tobias Madden

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    There Are No Cheat Codes for ShowmanceSeventeen-year-old gaymer Noah Mitchell only has one friend the wonderful, funny, strictly online-only MagePants69. After years playing RPGs together, they know everything about each other, except anything that would give away their real life identities. And Noah is certain that if they could just meet in person, they would be soulmates...
  • Access Denied: And Other Eighth Grade Error Messages by Denise Vega

    Access Denied: And Other Eighth Grade Error Messages by Denise Vega

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Computer whiz Erin Swift is ready to start eighth grade. The Year of Humiliating Events (aka, seventh grade) is behind her and she's ready to rule the school. But eight grade comes with its own set of problems for Erin to navigate, including her first boyfriend, her first break-up, and the fact that her mom has been treating her more like an eight year old than an eighth grader...
  • Pride High : Book 2 - Orange by Jay Bell

    Pride High : Book 2 - Orange by Jay Bell

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Welcome back to Pride High, where the delicious drama continues! Ricky tries to sort through his feelings for Diego—the hot guy who has been bullying him—and ends up in the middle of a feud. Anthony and Cameron, now a couple, have to navigate first times and coming out. Silvia finds herself questioning her feelings for Omar when someone else catches her eye… and it’s a girl...
  • First Time for Everything: A Novel by Henry Fry

    First Time for Everything: A Novel by Henry Fry

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 7 ratings
    Danny Scudd is absolutely fine. At twenty-seven years old he's finally moved to London and escaped his parents' tiny fish and chip shop, his beloved collection of house plants are thriving and every Monday evening he has a date night with his boyfriend, Tobbs.But Danny's life is thrown into chaos when he discovers at an STI clinic that Tobbs might be cheating on him...
  • Adam by Anthony McDonald

    Adam by Anthony McDonald

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Adam is a delightful sixteen-year-old who does well in school and spends his spare time practising the cello. Or that's what his parents think. But there is another side to him, which comes to the fore when he falls for a labourer called Sylvain and realises that friendships have the potential to be more than platonic...
  • Noah Goes Nuclear by Simon James Green

    Noah Goes Nuclear by Simon James Green

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Noah Grimes is back, in a new, original short story!Noah is v excited: his class have been shipped off to a hotel in the Lake District to study a nearby Nuclear Power Station! On arrival, all Noah wants to do is settle in to his crisp hotel sheets and get proper rest, but his conniving secret half-brother Eric Smith has other plans...
  • The Big Ask by Simon James Green

    The Big Ask by Simon James Green

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Alfie Parker has bagged the hottest date to prom … hasn’t he? Bestselling LGBTQ+ writer Simon James Green makes his Barrington Stoke debut with a life-affirming teen romance.Harvey is popular, cool, plays football and has been in a relationship with his girlfriend Summer for as long as anyone can remember...
  • Date Me, Bryson Keller by Kevin van Whye

    Date Me, Bryson Keller by Kevin van Whye

    Rated: 3.96 of 5 stars
    · 25 ratings
    What If It's Us meets To All the Boys I've Loved Before in this upbeat and heartfelt boy-meets-boy romance that feels like a modern twist on a '90s rom-com! Everyone knows about the dare: Each week, Bryson Keller must date someone new--the first person to ask him out on Monday morning. Few think Bryson can do it. He may be the king of Fairvale Academy, but he's never really dated before...
  • Beautiful Music for Ugly Children by Kirstin Cronn-Mills

    Beautiful Music for Ugly Children by Kirstin Cronn-Mills

    Rated: 3.95 of 5 stars
    · 19 ratings
    "This is Beautiful Music for Ugly Children, on community radio 90.3, KZUK. I'm Gabe. Welcome to my show." My birth name is Elizabeth, but I'm a guy. Gabe. My parents think I've gone crazy and the rest of the world is happy to agree with them, but I know I'm right. I've been a boy my whole life. When you think about it, I'm like a record...
  • Honestly Ben by Bill Konigsberg

    Honestly Ben by Bill Konigsberg

    Rated: 3.94 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    Ben Carver is back to normal. He’s getting all As in his classes at the Natick School. He was just elected captain of the baseball team. He’s even won a big scholarship for college, if he can keep up his grades. All that foolishness with Rafe Goldberg last semester is over now, and he just needs to be a Carver, work hard, and stay focused...
  • What My Girlfriend Doesn't Know by Sonya Sones

    What My Girlfriend Doesn't Know by Sonya Sones

    Rated: 3.94 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    My name is Robin. This book is about me. It tells the story of what happens when after almost 15 pathetic years of loserdom, the girl of my dreams finally falls for me. That seems like it would be a good thing, right? Only it turns out to be a lot more complicated than that Because I'm not gonna lie to you -- there are naked women involved. Four of them, to be exact...
  • The Best Man by Richard Peck

    The Best Man by Richard Peck

    Rated: 3.94 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    Newbery Medalist Richard Peck brings us this big-hearted novel about gay marriage from a kid’s endearing perspectiveWhen Archer is in sixth grade, his beloved uncle Paul marries another man—Archer’s favorite student teacher. But that’s getting ahead of the story, and a wonderful story it is...
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  • The Order of the Poison Oak by Brent Hartinger

    The Order of the Poison Oak by Brent Hartinger

    Rated: 3.94 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Russel Middlebrook needs to get away. It's tough being sixteen and out at your high school. So being a summer camp counselor sounds like the perfect solution -- but Russel has no idea how crazy this summer will be. Rowdy ten-year-old burn survivors, Indian legends, moonlit skinny dipping, and passionate summer romance are just the beginning . .
  • Word Nerd by Susin Nielsen

    Word Nerd by Susin Nielsen

    Rated: 3.94 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Twelve-year-old Ambrose is a glass-half-full kind of guy. A self-described “friendless nerd,” he moves from place to place every couple of years with his overprotective mother, Irene. When some bullies at his new school almost kill him by slipping a peanut into his sandwich — even though they know he has a deathly allergy — Ambrose is philosophical...
  • Rhyme Schemer by K.A. Holt

    Rhyme Schemer by K.A. Holt

    Rated: 3.94 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Kevin has a bad attitude. He has a real knack for rubbing people the wrong way. And he's even figured out a secret way to do it with poems...
  • The President's Daughter by Ellen Emerson White

    The President's Daughter by Ellen Emerson White

    Rated: 3.93 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Sixteen-year old Meghan Powers thought that boys and grades were the most important issues of the day, until her mother dropped the bombshell-she was going to run for President of the United States. And she was going to win. Bad enough that her mother spent so much time away from home as a state senator. Now she was going to be the most important woman in America...
  • Jumpstart the World by Catherine Ryan Hyde

    Jumpstart the World by Catherine Ryan Hyde

    Rated: 3.93 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Elle is a loner. She doesn’t need people. Which is a good thing, because she’s on her own: she had to move into her own apartment so her mother’s boyfriend won’t have to deal with her. Then she meets Frank, the guy who lives next door. He’s older and has a girlfriend, but Elle can’t stop thinking about him. Frank isn’t like anyone Elle has ever met. He listens to her. He’s gentle...
  • A Secret Edge by Robin Reardon

    A Secret Edge by Robin Reardon

    Rated: 3.93 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    I love the long distance run, when you feel like you're about to die...and then you reach this place where you feel like there are no boundaries for you anywhere...In many ways, Jason Peele is like any other teenager. He hits the books, hangs with his friends, flirts with girls, and omits the full truth of his life from his Aunt Audrey and Uncle Steve, who have raised him since his parents died...
  • With or Without You by Brian Farrey

    With or Without You by Brian Farrey

    Rated: 3.92 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Eighteen-year-old Evan and his best friend, Davis, get beaten up for being loners. For being gay. For just being themselves. But as rough as things often seem, at least Evan can take comfort in his sweet, sexy boyfriend Erik - whom he’s kept secret from everyone for almost a year. Then Evan and Davis are recruited to join the Chasers, a fringe crowd that promises them protection and status...
  • Living with Jackie Chan by Jo Knowles

    Living with Jackie Chan by Jo Knowles

    Rated: 3.92 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    After fathering a baby, a teenager moves in with his karate-loving uncle and tries to come to terms with his guilt — and find a way to forgive. This isn’t how Josh expected to spend senior year. He thought he’d be hanging out with his best friends, Dave and Caleb, driving around, partying, just like always...
  • Carter's Big Break by Brent Crawford

    Carter's Big Break by Brent Crawford

    Rated: 3.90 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    After surviving freshman year (just barely), Carter is craving his summer break. Unfortunately, when he and his girlfriend, Abby, part ways, it looks as though summer just might break him. Things start to look up when he's unexpectedly cast in an independent film opposite the world's biggest tween sensation, Hilary Idaho. With Hollywood knocking on his door, Carter gets a taste of the good life...
  • The Brothers Torres by Coert Voorhees

    The Brothers Torres by Coert Voorhees

    Rated: 3.90 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Frankie Towers has always looked up to his older brother, Steve, and with good reason. Steve is a popular senior who always gets what he wants: girls, a soccer scholarship, and--lately--street cred. Frankie, on the other hand, spends his time shooting off fireworks with his best friend Zach, working at his parents' restaurant, and obsessing about his longtime crush, Rebecca Sanchez...
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