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Book Review: Crossing Lines by Paul Volponi
Crossing Lines by Paul Volponi Released June 9, 2011. Adonis plays on his high school football team and all of his best friends are football jocks. He has just started dating Melody, one of the...
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Review: The Difference Between You and Me by Madeleine George
The Difference Between You and Me by Madeleine George Released March 15, 2012. Jesse wears fishing boots every day. She cuts her hair short and rough with a Swiss Army knife. She spends her time...
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Review: Putting Makeup on the Fat Boy by Bil Wright
Putting Makeup on the Fat Boy by Bil Wright (Link to InfoSoup record) Sixteen-year-old Carlos has always wanted to be a makeup artist to the stars, so when his friend suggests that he start out at a...
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Review: My Mixed-Up Berry Blue Summer by Jennifer Gennari
My Mixed-Up Berry Blue Summer by Jennifer Gennari June has lived on Lake Champlain with her mother forever. They run the marina with its supplies and café. That’s where June learned to make pies,...
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2013 Rainbow List
The 2013 Rainbow list selects books for youth, aged birth through 18 years old, that speak to the GLBTQ rights and lives. Sponsored by ALA’s GLBT Round Table and Social Responsibilities Round Table,...
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Review: Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe by Benjamin...
Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe by Benjamin Alire Saenz This is one of the big winners of the ALA Awards this year. It won the Stonewall Book Award, the Pura Belpre Author...
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Review: The Sin-Eater’s Confession by Ilsa J. Bick
The Sin-Eater’s Confession by Ilsa J. Bick Ben saw what happened to Jimmy. Ben was the only witness except for the murderers who stoned Jimmy to death in the woods. Ben shouldn’t even have been...
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Review: Fat Angie by E. E. Charlton-Trujillo
Fat Angie by E. E. Charlton-Trujillo Angie has hit rock bottom. She tried to kill herself in front of the entire school and now she just wants to make it through each day. She numbs herself with...
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Review: Openly Straight by Bill Konigsberg
Openly Straight by Bill Konigsberg Rafe is openly gay in his home town of Boulder, Colorado. OK, he’s beyond out of the closet, he’s the guy that is asked to speak publicly about being gay, his...
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Review: If You Could Be Mine by Sara Farizan
If You Could Be Mine by Sara Farizan This debut novel from an Iranian-American author takes a look at what it is like to be a teen lesbian in Iran. Sahar loves her friend Nasrin intensely. They have...
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Review: Two Boys Kissing by David Levithan
Two Boys Kissing by David Levithan Released August 27, 2013. Based on true events, this is the story of Henry and Craig, who attempt to set the World Record for kissing the longest. That means they...
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Review: Freakboy by Kristin Elizabeth Clark
Freakboy by Kristin Elizabeth Clark On the surface, Brendan has it all together. He has a hot girlfriend, he wrestles on the high school team, and he has a great younger sister who adores him. It is...
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Review: Better Nate Than Ever by Tim Federle
Better Nate Than Ever by Tim Federle Nate lives in Jankburg, Pennsylvania probably as far from Broadway that you can get. But Broadway is where he dreams of being. So when an opportunity to go to an...
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2014 Rainbow List
The Rainbow List represents the best GLBTQ books for children and teens from the American Library Association’s GLBT and SRRT roundtables. Archenemy by Paul Hoblin Batwoman Volume 3: World’s Finest...
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Review: Five, Six, Seven, Nate! by Tim Federle
Five, Six, Seven, Nate! by Tim Federle This sequel to the award-winning Better Nate Than Ever is one of the strongest second books in a series I have read. After getting cast as ET in the upcoming...
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2014 Lambda Literary Award Finalists
Big thanks to Bookshelves of Doom for a heads up about this! The finalists for the 2014 Lambda Literary Awards have been announced. The finalists for the LGBT Children’s and Young Adult category...
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Review: Jacob’s New Dress by Sarah and Ian Hoffman
Jacob’s New Dress by Sarah and Ian Hoffman, illustrated by Chris Case At school, Jacob loves to dress up as the princess during play time. Christopher though doesn’t approve of Jacob wearing girl...
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2015 Stonewall Book Award
Awarded annually to English-language children’s and young adult books of exceptional merit relating to the gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender experience: WINNER This Day in June by Gayle E. Pitman,...
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Review: Openly Straight by Bill Konigsberg
Openly Straight by Bill Konigsberg Rafe is openly gay in his home town of Boulder, Colorado. OK, he’s beyond out of the closet, he’s the guy that is asked to speak publicly about being gay, his...
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Review: If You Could Be Mine by Sara Farizan
If You Could Be Mine by Sara Farizan This debut novel from an Iranian-American author takes a look at what it is like to be a teen lesbian in Iran. Sahar loves her friend Nasrin intensely. They have...
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