Archive for the ‘Young Adult’ Category
August 2nd, 2010 by Book Utopia Mom / 1,035 views
Title: Summer Song 
Author: Louise Blaydon
Publisher: Dreamspinner Press
Length:: Novel/201 pgs/79k
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Blurb:
Billy Bronner is, to all appearances, every inch the 1950s American dream: handsome, clever, captain of the high school football team, looks good enough in tight jeans that people can even forget he’s Jewish. Then the new guy on the block, the enigmatic Leonard Nachman, turns his head, and over the summer Billy discovers a new world of romance and love—in a man’s arms.
But when Kit O’Reilly, Billy’s best friend and shadow, comes home after spending the summer with relatives, he finds Billy acting… differently. Soon enough, it becomes obvious that this change is related to Len, and Kit will have to decide if he’ll accept the relationship Billy and Len have forged, or if he’ll push Billy and their longtime friendship away.
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July 6th, 2010 by Kassa / 788 views
Title: Vast Fields of Ordinary 
Author: Nick Burd
Publisher: Penguin Publishing
Length:: Novel/320 pages
Buy the book: Amazon / eBook
Blurb:
It’s Dade’s last summer at home. He has a crappy job at Food World, a “boyfriend” who won’t publicly acknowledge his existence (maybe because Pablo also has a girlfriend), and parents on the verge of a divorce. College is Dade’s shining beacon of possibility, a horizon to keep him from floating away.
Then he meets the mysterious Alex Kincaid. Falling in real love finally lets Dade come out of the closet—and, ironically, ignites a ruthless passion in Pablo. But just when true happiness has set in, tragedy shatters the dreamy curtain of summer, and Dade will use every ounce of strength he’s gained to break from his past and start fresh with the future.
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Posted in 4 stars, Fiction, Gay, Reviews, Young Adult | 3 Comments »
May 25th, 2010 by Kassa / 552 views
Title: Out of the Pocket 
Author: Bill Konigsberg
Publisher: Dutton Juvenile
Length: Novel / 275 pages
Buy the book: Amazon
Blurb:
Star quarterback Bobby Framingham, one of the most talented high school football players in California, knows he’s different from his teammates. They’re like brothers, but they don’t know one essential thing: Bobby is gay. Can he still be one of the guys and be honest about who he is? When he’s outed against his will by a student reporter, Bobby must find a way to earn back his teammates’ trust and accept that his path to success might be more public, and more difficult, than he’d hoped. An affecting novel about identity that also delivers great sportswriting.
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Posted in 4.5 stars, Fiction, Gay, Reviews, Young Adult | 2 Comments »
May 4th, 2010 by Kassa / 2,117 views
Title: Enlightened 
Author: JP Barnaby
Publisher: Createspace
Length: 200 pages,
Buy the book: Amazon, eBook
Blurb:
Little Boy Lost is the story of Brian McAllister, the boy next door.
Brian goes to school, does his homework, and helps his foster parents around the house. Brian also has a secret. He is in love with his best friend. In Crayford, Alabama being in love with another boy is the worst kind of sin.
In this first book, Enlightened, Brian and Jamie discover just how deep their emotional bond runs, and at what cost. From fumbling through their first sexual experiences to shrouding every aspect of their relationship from everyone in their lives, Brian and Jamie battle for the one thing that is truly theirs—love.
What will they do if their secret is discovered?
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Posted in 4 stars, Erotica, Fiction, Gay, Reviews, Young Adult | 7 Comments »
April 29th, 2010 by Kassa / 1,287 views
Title: Strings Attached 
Author: Nick Nolan
Publisher: BookSurge Publishing
Length: Novel/320 pages
Buy the book: Ebook, Paperback
Blurb:
Closeted teenager Jeremy is sent to live with wealthy relatives after his mother enters rehab. Struggling to fit into the posh world of Ballena Beach, Jeremy joins the high school swim team, dates a popular girl, and begins to think he may have landed in paradise—until his great aunt Katharine starts to dictate his every move … and a late-night phone call insinuates that his father’s accidental death was not so accidental after all.
As Jeremy grows accustomed to the veneer of a fabulous life, so grows his need for answers—as well as the danger of immeasurable harm. Weaving together a murder mystery, sexual ambiguity, and characters with hidden identities and agendas , Nick Nolan offers readers a deliciously witty page-turner about the “puppet” who wishes only to be a real boy. Strings Attached is also a surprisingly heartfelt story about coming-of-age and coming out—not necessarily in that order.
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April 20th, 2010 by Kassa / 2,216 views
Title: Geography Club 
Author: Brent Hartinger
Publisher: Harper Teen
Length: Novel / 240 pages
Buy the book: Amazon
Blurb:
Russel Middlebrook is convinced he’s the only gay kid at Goodkind High School.
Then his online gay chat buddy turns out to be none other than Kevin, the popular but closeted star of the school’s baseball team. Soon Russel meets other gay students, too. There’s his best friend Min, who reveals that she is bisexual, and her soccer-playing girlfriend Terese. Then there’s Terese’s politically active friend, Ike.
But how can kids this diverse get together without drawing attention to themselves?
“We just choose a club that’s so boring, nobody in their right mind would ever in a million years join it. We could call it Geography Club!”
Brent Hartinger’s debut novel is a fast-paced, funny, and trenchant portrait of contemporary teenagers who may not learn any actual geography in their latest club, but who learn plenty about the treacherous social terrain of high school and the even more dangerous landscape of the human heart.
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Posted in 4 stars, Fiction, Gay, Reviews, Young Adult | 3 Comments »
April 6th, 2010 by Kassa / 923 views
Title: Queeroes 
Author: Steven Bereznai
Publisher: Lethe Press
Length: Novel/ 250 pages
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Blurb:
When strange powers emerge in a group of gay teens in the town of Nuffim, their lives are forever changed. Troy is a closeted jock who starts to sense other people’s emotions. His geeky brother, Gibbie, develops super strength. Flamboyant Chad unleashes his inner animal, while his gal pal Mandy turns invisible.
”I can totally use my power to psych out my competition,” says Troy. ”My night vision will make cruising guys super easy,” exclaims Chad. ”I am so going to eavesdrop on people’s conversations,” exclaims Mandy. ”Uh, I was thinking we’d make the world a better place,” offers Gibbie. They get the chance when their schoolmates Devon and Liza use their own unique abilities to remake the student body in a darker image.
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Posted in 3.5 stars, Fiction, Gay, Reviews, Young Adult | 7 Comments »
March 30th, 2010 by Kassa / 629 views
Title: All Lost Things 
Author: Josh Aterovis
Publisher: PD Publishing
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Blurb:
Killian Kendall’s life is changing faster than he can keep up. He’s graduating from high school, breaking up with his boyfriend, and starting a new job with a private investigator. He’s barely settled at his new desk when his ex-boyfriend calls with a desperate plea for help. He wants Killian to prove his new boyfriend is innocent in the shockingly violent murder of his abusive father. Killian reluctantly agrees to take the case, little knowing how complicated ~ and dangerous ~ things will become before it’s over.
On the home front, Killian’s surrogate parents decide to buy a historic mansion and turn it into a bed and breakfast. The house comes with a rich history … and maybe a ghost or two. Killian doesn’t want to believe in such things, but he’s quickly becoming convinced that something terrible happened to the home’s original owners. The century-old mystery both terrifies and tantalizes Killian. In the end, he may be the only one who can uncover the truth.
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Posted in 4 stars, Fiction, Gay, Mystery, Reviews, Young Adult | 1 Comment »
March 25th, 2010 by Kassa / 838 views
Title: Reap the Whirlwind 
Author: Josh Aterovis
Publisher: PD Publishing
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Blurb:
“Nothing can stay the same forever. We get in trouble in life when we think it can and will. Everything changes, or as King Solomon said in the Bible and The Byrds sang in the 60’s, to everything there is a season and a time for every purpose under heaven. It’s not a particularly easy lesson to learn, or a fun one for that matter. I learned it the summer between high school and college, and my life would never be the same.”
Will’s life is changing so quickly he can’t keep up. He’s moving out of his parents’ home for the first time, changing careers, making new friends, and falling in love with the person he least expected. In the process, he’s also learning a lot about himself. As if he doesn’t have enough going on, his life-long best friend dies in what appears to be a drunken accident. But when Will receives a note hinting that it may not have been an accident after all, he finds that he can’t rest until he knows the truth. With the help of Killian Kendall and his friends, Will begins an amateur investigation that will result in even more death. Will thought the biggest changes were behind him, but they had only just begun.
Reap the Whirlwind blends a coming-of-age story and mystery with a powerful love story. It is the winner of two Gay Writers Guild awards.
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Posted in 2 stars, Fiction, Gay, Mystery, Reviews, Young Adult | 4 Comments »
March 22nd, 2010 by Indigene / 1,530 views
Title: The Summer Between
Author: Andrew Binks
Publisher: Nightwood Editions (Harbour Publishing)
Length: Novel, 200 pages
Buy the book: Publisher, Amazon, Amazon Canada, Chapters-Indigo
Blurb:
Like his attempts to swim over the dark water of the river that lies between him and the object of his affections, twelve-year-old Dougaldo Montmigny struggles against oppression, homophobia and racism to realise his love for Tomahawk Clark, a thirteen-year-old Métis boy, during a summer destined to become a painful lesson on love and desire.
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Posted in 5 stars, Fiction, Gay, Literature, Reviews, Young Adult | 3 Comments »
