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Series
Aristotle and Dante volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 2.9 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
Aristotle is an angry teen with a brother in prison. Dante is a know-it-all who has an unusual way of looking at the world. When the two meet at the swimming pool, they seem to have nothing in common. But as the loners start spending time together, they discover that they share a special friendship-the kind that changes lives and lasts a lifetime. And it is through this friendship that Ari and Dante will learn the most important truths about themselves...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Formats
Description
The summer after graduating from an Iowa high school, eighteen-year-old Dade Hamilton watches his parents' marriage disintegrate, ends his long-term, secret relationship, comes out of the closet, and savors first love.
4) Twelfth
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2022.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
"Twelve-year-old Maren hesitantly enters summer theater camp and finds clues of a mystery about the camp's founding, linking back to the Lavender Scare in Hollywood"--
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
When Heather goes to playgroup, at first she feels bad because she has two mothers and no father, but then she learns that there are lots of different kinds of families and the most important thing is that all the people love each other.
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2022.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
While searching the woods that used to be their personal sanctuary, twelve-year-old Aubrey recalls the events and incidents preceding their best friend's disappearance and quietly questions their own gender identity.
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster BFYR
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
When Lance begins to date Sergio, who's bisexual, he's not sure that it'll work out, and when his best friend Allie, who has a boyfriend, meets Sergio's lesbian friend, she has unexpected feelings which she struggles to understand.
10) Vanilla
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
Told in a series of blank verse poems, two boys Van (called Vanilla) and Hunter tell of their relationship which began before they were teenagers, but foundered in high school, mostly because Hunter thinks they should be having sex and Vanilla is not so sure.
Van and Hunter have been dating since seventh grade. They came out together, navigated middle school together, and became that couple in high school that everyone always sees as a couple. As...
Author
Publisher
Wise Ink
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Katy's school is celebrating Grandparents Day, and Katy is nervous. She doesn't want to introduce her grandpas in front of the class because she's worried that nobody will understand her lisp. To make matters worse, when Katy tells her teacher that she's inviting her married grampas, her teacher thinks she means to say grandma and grandpa instead of grandpa and grandpa. Will Katy build the confidence to speak in front of the class and challenge stereotypes?...
Author
Publisher
CrackBoom! Livres
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"In the tiny village of Aria, there are only nine houses. But in each of them, there is a whole universe. From Sofiane, whose grandparents don't stop dancing, to Lulu, whose dad was in the body of a little girl when he was a child, via Julie, who never knew her mom and whose two dads take great care, Aria shows us all the particularities that a family can have. And your family, what is its magic?"--
Author
Series
Publisher
Kalandraka
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
Español
Description
"Con Tango son tres es la historia real de una singular pareja de pingüinos barbijo a los que el cuidador del zoo de Central Park, en Nueva York, Rob Gramzay, les dio la oportunidad-depositando un huevo en su nido- de tener una cría tras observar que incubaban infructuosamente una piedra. Así nació Tango, que fue la primera pingüino en tener dos padres. El primer libro infantil de Justin Richardson y Peter Parnellfue un éxito y, desde su publicación...
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
At the elite Essex Academy Cal Ware, a poor, queer kid from Mississippi, is an outsider, but when he learns about a secret society on campus, he thinks that he may have found a way to reinvent himself--but as the initiation rituals grow riskier he must decide who to trust and how far he is willing to go to belong.
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