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Gay, Lesbian & Trans-Gender Fiction

These books are located in the Juvenile and YA fiction areas of the Youth Services Department.

Luna, by Julie Ann Peters
YA Peters
Fifteen-year-old Regan's life, which has always revolved around keeping her older brother Liam's transsexuality a secret, changes when Liam decides to start the process of "transitioning' by first telling his family and friends that he is a girl who was born in a boy's body.

Hard Love, by Ellen Wittlinger
YA 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.

Geography Club, by Brent Hartinger
YA Hartinger
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.

Kissing Kate, by Lauren Myracle
YA Myracle
Sixteen-year-old Lissa's relationship with her best friend changes after they kiss at a party and Lissa does not know what to do, until she gets help from an unexpected new friend.

Annie On My Mind, by Nancy Garden
YA Garden
Liza puts aside her feelings for Annie after the disaster at school, but eventually she allows love to triumph over the ignorance of people.

Not the Only One : lesbian and gay fiction for teens
YAPB NOT An anthology for gay and lesbian teens featuring new original fiction which reflect both the tension and relief of being true to oneself. These stories provide hope and inspiration to gay and lesbian teenagers as they take the first exciting, often difficult steps toward accepting their sexuality and emerging from the shadows as open and proud individuals.

Orphea Proud, by Sharon Dennis Wyeth
YA Wyeth
As Orphea, who discovers her sexuality as a lesbian, shares her story, powerful questions of family, prejudice, and identity are explored.

Talk, by Kathe Koja
YA Koja
Hoping to escape from himself for awhile, Kit auditions for a controversial school play and discovers his talent for acting, struggles with coming out, and both he and his costar face crises in their view of themselves and in their close relationships. Told from two points of view.

Rainbow High, by Alex Sanchez
YA Sanchez
Follows three gay high school seniors as they struggle with issues of coming out, safe sex, homophobia, being in love, and college choices.

So Hard to Say, by Alex Sanchez
YS Sanchez
Thirteen-year-old Xio, a Mexican American girl, and Frederick, who has just moved to California from Wisconsin, quickly become close friends, but when Xio starts thinking of Frederick as her boyfriend, he must confront his feelings of confusion and face the fear that he might be gay.

My Heartbeat, by Garret Weyr
YA 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.

What I Know Now, by Rodger Larson
YA Larson
aIn 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.