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1) Secret
Author
Series
Elemental series (Brigid Kemmerer) volume 4
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Nick Merrick is trying to enjoy his senior year in high school as much as possible. At the same time he worries about the Elemental Guides who may show up to kill him and his family and about the secret he is keeping from everyone that he is gay.
2) Heartstone
Publisher
Breaking Glass Pictures
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
Icelandic
Description
Set in a remote Icelandic fishing village, teenager Thor tries to win the love of Hanna while his best friend Christian discovers he has feelings for Thor.
3) Queen of All
Author
Series
Jena cycle volume 1
Publisher
Zenith
Pub. Date
2021
Language
English
Description
"In a Kingdom once filled with the magic of the Goddess Gaia, fourteen-year-old Jena has never left her family's tiny, failing farm. With an absent mother and an inattentive father, Jenas only solace is her cousin Sisi, a girl renowned throughout the Four Corners of the Earth for her indescribable beauty. But when a letter arrives for Sisi from Prince Ricard, the man Sisi suspects is responsible for the recent devastation across the lands, the two...
4) Marilyn
Publisher
Breaking Glass Pictures
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
Español
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Description
Marcos, a seventeen-year-old farm worker, discovers his sexuality in a hostile environment. Nicknamed Marilyn by other teenagers in town, he becomes the target both of human desire and discrimination. Marcos feels himself pushed into a corner more and more.
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Language
English
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Description
A collection of essays and testimonials written to teens from celebrities, political leaders, and everyday people, stresses to gay and lesbian youth that they can lead fulfilling lives free of bullying, and that their adult years will get better.
7) Pulp
Author
Publisher
Harlequin Teen
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
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Description
Publisher Annotation: In 1955, eighteen-year-old Janet Jones keeps the love she shares with her best friend Marie a secret. It?s not easy being gay in Washington, DC, in the age of McCarthyism, but when she discovers a series of books about women falling in love with other women, it awakens something in Janet. As she juggles a romance she must keep hidden and a newfound ambition to write and publish her own story, she risks exposing herself?and Marie?to...
8) Runebinder
Author
Series
Runebinder chronicles volume 1
Publisher
Harlequin Teen
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Publisher Annotation: When magic returned to the world, it could have saved humanity, but greed and thirst for power caused mankind's downfall instead. Now once-human monsters called Howls prowl abandoned streets, their hunger guided by corrupt necromancers and the all-powerful Kin. Only Hunters have the power to fight back in the unending war, using the same magic that ended civilization in the first place. But they are losing. Tenn is a Hunter,...
9) Release
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Inspired by Judy Blume's Forever and Virginia Woolf's Mrs. Dalloway, this novel is a new classic about teenage relationships, self-acceptance-and what happens when the walls we build start coming down. Adam Thorn doesn't know it yet, but today will change his life. Between his religious family, a deeply unpleasant ultimatum from his boss, and his own unrequited love for his sort-of ex, Enzo, it seems as though Adam's life is falling apart. At least...
Publisher
Strand Releasing
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
Français
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Description
Damien and Thomas are French teenagers from very different upbringings who go to the same high school but can't stand each other. When circumstances bring Damien's mother Marianne to invite Thomas to live with them, the young men are forced to coexist and work through their emerging attraction and complicated desires.
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
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Description
"The story of the dangerous first love of two young men: Mungo and James. Born under different stars--Mungo a Protestant and James a Catholic--they should be sworn enemies if they're to be seen as men at all. Their environment is a hyper-masculine and sectarian one, for gangs of young men and the violence they might dole out dominate the Glaswegian estate where they live. And yet against all odds Mungo and James become best friends as they find a...
12) The fever king
Author
Series
Feverwake volume 1
Publisher
Skyscape
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Publisher Annotation: In the former United States, sixteen-year-old Noam ?lvaro wakes up in a hospital bed, the sole survivor of the viral magic that killed his family and made him a technopath. His ability to control technology attracts the attention of the minister of defense and thrusts him into the magical elite of the nation of Carolinia. The son of undocumented immigrants, Noam has spent his life fighting for the rights of refugees fleeing magical...
Author
Series
Feverwake volume 2
Publisher
Skyscape
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
Publisher Annotation: In the sequel to The Fever King, Noam ?lvaro seeks to end tyranny before he becomes a tyrant himself.
Publisher
FilmRise
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Cameron is sent to a gay conversion therapy center after getting caught with another girl in the back seat of a car. Run by the strict and severe Dr. Lydia Marsh and her brother, Reverend Rick the center is built upon repenting for same sex attraction. In the face of intolerance and denial, Cameron meets a group of fellow sinners, including the amputee stoner Jane and her friend, the Lakota Two-Spirit Adam. Together, this group of teenagers forms...
15) Punch
Publisher
Darkstar Pictures
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
Jim is a promising teenage boxer, training under the watch of his demanding and alcoholic father. When Jim develops a relationship with a male classmate, the two are forced to navigate isolation, homophobia, and the brutality of small-town life. As Jim discovers what it means to be gay, he realizes how little strength has to do with heroism.
17) Joe Bell
Language
English
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Mark Wahlberg plays the rough-edged Oregon-based father who pays tribute to his gay teenage son Jadin by embarking on a walk across America to speak his heart to heartland adults and students about the potential terrifying high costs of bullying.
Author
Publisher
Ingram Spark
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
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Hannah is sixteen and doesn't feel like she fits in anywhere. Brainy, fat, and secretly in love with her best friend Liz, she's always found solace in her sweet and loving grandma. In the spring of 1996, as Gran moves into an Alzheimer's care center and Liz falls for yet another boy, Hannah branches out to find community on her own. She discovers zines, works up the confidence to attend a local GLBT youth group, and makes some new friends who help...
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Language
English
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Publisher Anno: The summer after her freshman year of college, Mariam is looking forward to working and hanging out with her best friends: irrepressible and beautiful Ghazala, and religious but closeted Umar. But when a scandalous photo of Ghaz appears on a billboard in Times Square, Mariam and Umar come up with a plan to rescue her from her furious parents. And what could be a better escape than a spontaneous road trip down to New Orleans?
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