Kategoria BISAC: Juvenile Fiction >> Social Themes - Adolescence & Coming of Age

High school senior Michael Sattler leads a charmed life. He's a star athlete, has great friends, and parents who love him just the way he is. What's missing from his life is a boyfriend. That's a problem because he's out only to his parents and best friend. When Michael accidentally bumps into Christy Castle at school, his life changes in ways he never imagined. Christy is Michael's dream guy: smart, pretty, and sexy. But nothing could have prepared Michael for what being Christy's boyfriend would entail.

Christy needs to heal after years of abuse and knows he needs help to do it....

Adam Jameson has always felt like an outsider in his own home, where his parents constant efforts to instill religious fervor have instead filled him with fear. Most of the time, he just wants to stay out of everybody s way. But when Adam is forced to volunteer at a homeless shelter his senior year in high school, everything changes. He s introduced to people who care about more than religion and, as a result, he starts to come out of his shell. For the first time in his life, Adam finds people who he wants to be around.

Mickey Stafford lives on the streets, a teen kicked out by his...

As a musician at the popular college cafe Coed Joe s, high school senior Kai Manter is never lacking for male attention. Out, proud, free-spirited, and sexually aware, Kai sets his sights on his darkly Gothic and undeniably bad-tempered coworker, Jamie Arlotta, a freshman at the local arts university. Sporting long hair and alluring hippie style, Kai expects his interest will be reciprocated, with satisfying sex as the end goal. That s what usually happens. But Jamie s lessons in life have been harsher. Having been sexually abused by his older stepbrother for several years, Jamie has grown...

Braving the start of high school, longtime childhood friends Benjamin Wells and Timmy Norton quickly realize they are entering a whole new world colored by their family responsibilities. Ben is trying to please his strict father; Timmy is taking care of his younger sisters. While their easy camaraderie is still comfortable, Ben notices Timmy growing distant and evasive, but Ben has his own problems. It s easier to let concerns about Timmy s home life slide, especially when Timmy changes directions and starts to get a little too close. Ben doesn t know how to handle the new feelings Timmy s...

When family complications take Joshua away from his fundamentalist Christian mother and leave him with his grandfather, he finds himself immersed in a mysterious and magical world. Joshua s grandfather is a Wisconsin Ojibwe Indian who, along with an array of quirky characters, runs a recreated sixteenth-century village for the tourists who visit the reservation. Joshua s mother kept him from his Ojibwe heritage, so living on the reservation is liberating for him. The more he learns about Ojibwe traditions, the more he feels at home.

One Ojibwe legend in particular captivates him....

Secrets. Their weight can be crushing, but their release can change everything and not necessarily for the better. Ian is no stranger to secrets. Being a gay teen in a backwater southern town, Ian must keep his orientation under wraps, especially since he spends a lot of time with his hands all over members of the same sex, pinning their sweaty, hard bodies to the wrestling mat.

When he s trying not to stare at teammates in the locker room, he s busy hiding another secret that he starves himself so he doesn t get bumped to the next weight class.

Enter Julian Yang, an Adonis with...

One October morning, high school junior Bryan Dennison wakes up a different person-helpful, generous, and chivalrous-a person whose new admirable qualities he doesn't recognize. Stranger still is the urge to tie a red sheet around his neck like a cape.

Bryan soon realizes this compulsion to wear a red cape is accompanied by more unusual behavior. He can't hold back from retrieving kittens from tall trees, helping little old ladies cross busy streets, and defending innocence anywhere he finds it.

Shockingly, at school, he realizes he used to be a bully. He's attracted to the former...

In his junior year at a public high school, sweet, bright Casey Minton s biggest worry isn t being gay. Keeping from being too badly bullied by his so-called friends, a group of girls called the Queen Bees, is more pressing. Nate De Marco has no friends, his tough home life having taken its toll on his reputation, but he s determined to get through high school. Zander Zane s story is different: he s popular, a jock. Zander knows he s gay, but fellow students don t, and he d like to keep it that way.

No one expects much when these three are grouped together for a class project, yet in...

Raimi Carter is finally a girl, just like she always knew she was meant to be. At a new school where nobody knows she s had gender reassignment surgery, she hopes to finally live the normal life she s longed for, happy in her own skin.

Life is great until she discovers a dangerous bully is blackmailing head cheerleader, Clare Strickland, threatening to reveal her secret: she s gay. As Raimi fights to free Clare from his clutches, the two girls move beyond friendship. But secrets from their pasts and their own fears of coming out tear them apart maybe forever. Baring their souls to each...

"A Harmony Ink Press Young Adult Title"

At seventeen, Charles Trey Maddox Taft III has had better years. His father ran off with a younger woman, and with no alimony or child support, his family has to move from affluent Coconut Grove to a rough neighborhood near Miami s Little Havana. It s a completely different world, but Trey is determined to make the best of a bad situation, if only no one finds out he's gay.

On Trey's first day in his new territory, he's saved from being run over by local bad boy Bobby Cruz. Bobby is an unabashedly gay, sexually active high school senior who's...

Pattyn Von Stratten's father is dead, and Pattyn is on the run. After far too many years of abuse at the hands of her father, and after the tragic loss of her beloved Ethan and their unborn child, Pattyn is desperate for peace. Only her sister Jackie knows what happened that fatal night, but she is stuck at home with their mother, who clings to...