IF IT DOESN'T KILL YOU
by Margaret Bechard
High school freshman Ben should be enjoying playing football, meeting girls, and going to parties, but he's too busy trying to cope with his father's moving out to live with another man.

BABY BE-BOP
by Francesca Lia Block
Dirk MacDonald, a sixteen-year-old boy living in Los Angeles, comes to terms with being gay after he receives surreal storytelling visitations from his dead father and great-grandmother.

VIOLET AND CLAIRE
by Francesca Lia Block
In search of material for a screenplay they are developing, seventeen-year-old Violet and her new friend Claire try to make life a movie as they chase their dreams through dangerously beautiful Los Angeles.

DARE, TRUTH OR PROMISE
by Paula Boock
Louie Angelo, a Woodhaugh High prefect who plans to be a lawyer, falls in love with a girl who lives in a pub and just wants to get through her exams so she can become a chef.

MY FATHER'S SCAR
by Michael Cart
As he enters into his first relationships as a gay man, a college freshman recalls the aching loneliness of life with his alcoholic physically abusive father in a community prejudiced against homosexuals.

THE PERKS OF BEING A WALLFLOWER
by Stephen Chbosky
A series of letters to an unknown correspondent reveals the coming-of-age trials of a high-schooler named Charlie.

EIGHT SECONDS
by Jean Ferris
Eighteen-year-old John must confront his own sexuality when he goes to rodeo school and finds himself strangely attracted to an older boy who is smart, tough, complicated, gorgeous and gay.

MY HEARTBEAT
by Garret Freymann-Weyr
As she tries to understand the closeness between her older brother and his best friend, fourteen-year-old Ellen finds her relationship with each of them changing.

DESIRE LINES
by Jack Gantos
Sixteen-year-old Walker discovers two of his female classmates are having an affair, a secret he keeps to himself until he is caught up in a witch-hunt set off by a local street preacher.

GOOD MOON RISING
by Nancy Garden
Two girls working together on a school play fall in love.

THE YEAR THEY BURNED THE BOOKS
by Nancy Garden
While trying to come to terms with her lesbianism, a high school senior finds herself in the middle of a battle with a group of townspeople over the new health education curriculum.

NOT THE ONLY ONE
edited by Tony Grima
A collection of short stories portraying gay and lesbian teenagers at different moments in their lives.

ONLY THE RING FINGER KNOWS
by Satoru Kannagai and Hotaru Odagiri
At Wataru Fujii's high school, it's all the rage to wear paired rings with the girl you love. Wataru wears one though he is single, and one day inadvertently discovers that his ring pairs up with that of tall, handsome, and smart Yuichi Kazuki. Their paired rings somehow draw them together and the two must sort out their budding feelings for each other.

WHAT I KNOW NOW
by Rodger Larson
In 1957 in California, having fallen in love with a young man who has come to his house to build a garden, a fourteen-year-old gay boy finds his life and his world view changing.

BOY MEETS BOY
by David Levithan
High school sophomore Paul lives in a present-day gaytopia, where boys come out of the closet to become class president, and the Gay-Straight Alliance has more members than the football team. The cheerleaders ride Harleys, and the cross-dressing homecoming queen is also the star quarterback.

SONNY'S HOUSE OF SPIES
by George Ella Lyon
In a small Alabama town in 1947-1956, Sonny searches for answers about his father's disappearance, "Uncle Marty," who looks after the family, and Mamby, their black housekeeper.

LOVE RULES
by Marilyn Reynolds
Seventeen-year-old Lynn experiences surprise, discomfort, and a new awareness of prejudices and stereotyping when her best friend Kit comes out as a lesbian.

EMPRESS OF THE WORLD
by Sara Ryan
While attending a summer institute, fifteen-year-old Nic meets another girl named Battle, falls in love with her, and finds the relationship to be difficult and confusing.

THE BLUE LAWN
by William Taylor
A fifteen-year-old boy acknowledges his attraction to an older rugby teammate, as he also begins to break out of the preconceived notions his family and other have about him.

PEBBLE IN A POOL
by William Taylor
Two tragic deaths are handled very differently by school administrators. A drunk driving accident paralyzes Adrian Vanderlaar and kills his girlfriend. The outpouring of grief is starkly contrasted with the muted response to a gay-bashing murder, causing Paul Carter to speak out.

FINDING H.F.
by Julia Watts
Sixteen-year-old Heavenly Faith (H.F.) discovers she has a crush on a local college professor's daughter, and embarks on a search for her missing mother.

HARD LOVE
by Ellen Wittlinger
After starting to publish a zine in which he writes his secret feelings about his lonely life and his parents' divorce, sixteen-year-old John meets an unusual girl and begins to develop a healthier personality.

FROM THE NOTEBOOKS OF MELANIN SUN
by Jacqueline Woodson
Thirteen-year-old Melanin Sun's comfortable, quiet life is shattered when his mother reveals she has fallen in love with a woman.

THE HOUSE YOU PASS ON THE WAY
by Jacqueline Woodson
When fourteen-year-old Staggerlee, the daughter of a racially mixed marriage, spends a summer with her cousin Trout, she finds herself attracted to Trout and catches a glimpse of her possible future self.

LEAVE MYSELF BEHIND
by Bart Yates
Starting a new life with his legendary psycho-poet mother in a sleepy New England town, seventeen-year-old Noah York uncovers clues to an age-old mystery in the walls of their old Victorian home, while falling in love with the boy next door.