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Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Description
Sixteen-year-old Mexican American Yami Flores starts Catholic school, determined to keep her brother out of trouble and keep herself closeted, but her priorities shift when Yami discovers that her openly gay classmate Bo is also annoyingly cute.
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Formats
Description
High school senior Tanner Scott has hidden his bisexuality since his family moved to Utah, but he falls hard for Sebastian, a Mormon mentoring students in a writing seminar Tanner's best friend convinced him to take.
Author
Publisher
Katherine Tegen Books
Pub. Date
2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
When her father starts dating a man, fifteen-year-old Marcie's depressed mother takes her to New Hampshire but just as Marcie starts falling for a great guy her father brings her back to Iowa, where all of her relationships have become strained.
4) Witch please
Author
Series
Fix-it witches volume 1
Language
English
Description
"Danica Waterhouse is a fully modern witch. After a messy breakup, she makes a pact with her cousin: they'll keep their hearts protected and have fun, without involving the overly opinionated Waterhouse matriarchs. No need to add criticism on top of heartache! Titus Winnaker has family trouble of his own. After a tragic loss, all he's got is his sister, his bakery-Sugar Daddy's-and a romantic curse that's left him doomed to be alone. Until he meets...
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
When Mara's twin brother Owen is accused of rape by her friend Hannah, Mara is forced to confront her feelings about her family, her sense of right and wrong, a trauma from her past, and the future with her girlfriend, Charlie.
Author
Series
Devouring gray volume 1
Publisher
Hyperion
Pub. Date
2019.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
Four teenagers have the power to protect their town from a monster, but only if their families' secrets do not destroy them first.
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
A married couple who originally agreed to not speak of their past failed relationships alternate reading from the memoirs they've written about their lives, in a novel that explores polyamory, bisexuality, aging, and love.
10) Deposing Nathan
Author
Publisher
Page Street Publishing Co
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
When Nate meets Cam during his junior year in high school, the relationship makes Nate question his faith and the family rules he has always obeyed and finally leads to physical violence between the two boys.
Author
Publisher
Swoon Reads
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Lambasted in the tabloids after a night of reckless partying, bisexual teen drummer Emmy King turns to her friends for support and evaluates the wisdom of getting romantically involved with her bandmate Alfie, which may trigger another scandal.
14) Melt with you
Author
Publisher
G. P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"Two teen girls, former best friends and one-time lovers, go on a summer road trip in an ice cream truck"--
Author
Publisher
Balzer + Bray, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
Budding screenwriter Nate, sixteen, finds his conviction that happy endings do not happen in real life sorely tested when his childhood best friend and crush, Oliver James Hernandez, moves back to town.
Author
Publisher
HarperTeen, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2020]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
"When Corrine Parker's girlfriend dies in a car accident Corrine struggles to come to terms with her grief and whether she is ready to come out as bisexual"--
18) Shatter the sky
Author
Series
Shatter the sky volume 1
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
Maren, desperate to save her kidnapped girlfriend, plans to steal one of the emporer's dragons and storm the Aurati stronghold, but her success depends on becoming an apprentice to the emporor's mysterious dragon trainer, which proves to be a dangerous venture.
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
In the city of Memphis, eighteen-year-old Lee and her boyfriend Vincent make a popular podcast on artists in love, but Lee learns that stories of happily-ever-after love do not always mirror real life.
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