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Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual & Transgender - Young Adult Fiction

Unfortunately, there aren't many books written with teenage characters featuring bisexual or transgender issues, however we've included every book we could find here. These books are available from the USA, Canada and the UK, click your appropriate flag to read further book reviews or to purchase.

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	All Books by Marion Dane Bauer - Author of : Am I Blue? Coming Out From The Silence Reading level: Young Adult Paperback Reprint edition (May 1995) HarperTrophy; ISBN: 0064405877 "GLBT Young Adult Fiction Books; This critically acclaimed, first-ever collection of original stories devoted to the topic of growing up gay or lesbian, or with gay or lesbian parents or friends, features works by Marion Dane Bauer, Lois Lowry, Francesca Lia Block, Bruce Coville, James Cross Giblin, M.E. Kerr, William Sleaton, Jane Yolen, and eight others." Click to buy this book in USA, Canada, UK:
	All Books by Michael Cart - Editor of : Love and Sex : 10 Stories of Truth Reading level: Young Adult School & Library Binding - 256 pages (May 1, 2001) Simon & Schuster (Juv); ISBN: 0689832036 "GLBT Young Adult Fiction Books; "More than thirty years ago a pioneering young adult librarian named Margaret A. Edwards protested that 'many adults seem to think that if sex is not mentioned to adolescents, it will go away.' "As succeeding decades have demonstrated, silence is no arbiter of behavior. Not only has sex not gone away, it has become a quintessential -- perhaps even obligatory? -- rite of passage for adolescents." So writes Michael Cart in his foreword to Love and Sex: Ten Stories of Truth, a groundbreaking volume in which some of the finest writers for adults and teens have contributed original stories on the various aspects of love and sexuality." Click to buy this book in USA, Canada, UK:
	All Books by Deborah Davis - Author of : My Brother has AIDS Amazon.co.uk Only Hardcover - 186 pages Library Binding (1 November, 1994) Atheneum; ISBN: 0689319223 "GLBT Young Adult Fiction Books; When her older brother returns home because he is dying of AIDS, thirteen-year-old Lacy deals with changes in her family life, in relationships with classmates, and in her commitment to her swimming team." Click to buy this book in UK:
	All Books by Emma Donoghue - Author of : Kissing the Witch: Old Tales in New Skins Reading level: Young Adult Paperback - 240 pages Reprint edition (April 1999) HarperTrophy; ISBN: 0064407721 "GLBT Young Adult Fiction Books; At age 28 Emma Donoghue is already a marvel. The author of two critically acclaimed novels, a fascinating work of lesbian history, and a series of successful stage plays, Donoghue can apparently do anything. With Kissing the Witch, a collection of revisionist fairy tales, she has proven once again that she is a great writer. In these 13 interconnected tales she finds new meanings in old stories: Cinderella runs off with her fairy godmother, Snow White's awakening is more erotic than romantic, and Rapunzel discovers that her freedom, although not her salvation, is in her hair. Donoghue writes about women, some lesbians and some not, and makes them the center of her fantastical world. The bold, daring boys of the Grimm tales are not here, but in their place are vibrant, knowing, and brave women and girls who are finding out what the world holds for them." Click to buy this book in USA, Canada, UK:
	All Books by Penny Raife Durant - Author of : When Heroes Die Amazon.co.uk Only Hardcover - 136 pages Library Binding (1 December, 1992) Atheneum; ISBN: 0689317646 "GLBT Young Adult Fiction Books; Devastated to discover that Uncle Rob, his hero, is dying of AIDS, twelve-year-old Gary, in need of advice and guidance in his life, finds that it is Uncle Rob himself who gives him strength to face the future." Click to buy this book in the UK:
	All Books by Garret Freymann-Weyr - Author of : My Heartbeat Hardcover: 160 pages (April 29, 2002) Houghton Mifflin Co (Juv); ISBN: 0618141812 *~~ Featured Book Review ~~* "Ellen loves Link and James. Her older brother and his best friend are the only company she ever wants. She knows they fight, but she makes it a policy never to take sides. She loves her brother, the math genius and track star. She is totally, madly in love with James, his face full of long eyelashes and hidden smiles. “When you grow out of it,” James teases her, “you will break my heart.” Ellen knows she’ll never outgrow it. She’ll always love James just the way she’ll always love Link. Then someone at school asks if Link and James might be in love with each other. A simple question. Link refuses to discuss it. James refuses to stay friends with a boy so full of secrets. Ellen’s parents want Link to keep his secrets to himself, but Ellen wants to know who her brother really is. When is curiosity a betrayal? And if James says he loves her, isn’t that just another way of saying he still loves Link? My Heartbeat is a fast, furious story in which a quirky triangle learns to change its shape and Ellen, at least, learns the limits of what you can ever know about whom you love." Click to buy this book in USA, Canada, UK:
	All Books by Rik Isensee - Author of : We're Not Alone Paperback - 164 pages (October 2000) iUniverse.com; ISBN: 0595142222 "GLBT Young Adult Fiction Books; Gay/Lesbian Youth - Lambda Finalist - Rik Isensee illustrates very well in this book how even the best of families can be dysfunctional for a gay or lesbian youth." Click to buy this book in USA, Canada, UK:
	All Books by Bennett L. Singer (Ed.) - Author of : Growing up Gay/Growing up Lesbian: A Literary Anthology Paperback Reprint edition (June 1994) New Press; ISBN: 1565841034 *~~ Featured Book Review ~~* "Growing up Gay, Growing up Lesbian is the first literary anthology geared specifically to gay and lesbian youth. It includes more than fifty coming-of-age stories by established writers and teenagers and has been hailed by writers, educators, activists, booksellers, and the press as an essential resource for young people--and not-so-young people--seeking to understand the gay and lesbian experience. The anthology includes selections by James Baldwin, Rita Mae Brown, David Leavitt, Jeanette Winterson, Audre Lorde, and others." Click to buy this book in USA, Canada, UK:
	All Books by Amy Sonnie - Editor of : Revolutionary Voices Paperback - 188 pages (October 1, 2000) Alyson Pubns; ISBN: 1555835589 "GLBT Young Adult Fiction Books; Invisible. Unheard. Alone. Chilling words but apt to describe the isolation and alienation of queer youth. In silence and fear they move from childhood memories of repression or violence to the unknown, unmentored, landscape of queer adulthood, their voices stilled or ignored. No longer. Revolutionary Voices celebrates the hues and harmonies of the future of gay and lesbian society, presenting not a collection of stories but a collection of experiences, ideas, dreams, and fantasies expressed through prose, poetry, artwork, letters, diaries, and performance pieces. Given priority, they sing, these no-longer-children, not-yet-adult voices of every color, class, religion, gender, and ability. Given space, they laugh or cry, talk or scream, no longer needing permission or even asking--but demanding not only to be heard but to be recognized as the critical component to a future society in which all members are valued." Click to buy this book in USA, Canada, UK:
	All Books by William Taylor - Author of : Jerome Reading level: Young Adult Paperback - 95 pages (November 1999) Alyson Pubns; ISBN: 1555835120 "GLBT Young Adult Fiction Books; Marco, a teen living in Australia, and Kate, his acquaintance who is a foreign exchange student in the U.S., develop a friendship through e-mail, faxes, and online chats. Although their friendship is based on their individual relationship with Jerome, whose death has devastated them both, their conversations gradually move beyond their immediate loss to an exploration of each other's thoughts, especially Kate's feelings about her homosexuality and experiences in another country." Click to buy this book in USA, Canada, UK:
	All Books by Barbara Wersba - Author of : Whistle Me Home Reading level: Young Adult Hardcover - 160 pages (May 1997) Henry Holt & Company, Inc.; ISBN: 0805048502 "GLBT Young Adult Fiction Books; Young adult fiction with gay or lesbian characters most often focuses on the emotional or social aspects of coming out. In a world in which gay teens have little support of visibility this focus is a good thing. But Whistle Me Home deals with gayness from another perspective. Noli, a smart, boyish teenage girl has fallen in love with T. J., the new boy at school. Cute, sensitive, and attentive, T. J. appears to be her soul mate, but much to Noli's dismay their intense relationship never becomes sexual. When T. J. finally confesses his homosexuality to her, Noli is both furious and crushed. Whistle Me Home deals carefully with people's secrets as well as with the pain that can be caused by unfulfilled sexual longing." Click to buy this book in USA, Canada, UK: