Books For Gay and Lesbian Youth
Teen Fiction By Title (with covers)
Teen Fiction By Title (text only)
Becoming Bobbie
R. J. Stevens
Growing up as a bona fide tomboy in the shadow of
her fashionable, ladylike mother, Bobbie lives for three things:
cars, music, and time with her uncomplicated, mechanic dad. She
doesn't need much in the way of friends. Her best girlfriends are
on the radio—women with names like Aretha, Janis, and Diana.
And she loves the cool logic of working on engines—the
simple joy of finding the part that doesn't work, of fixing what's
broken. But what's broken beneath the shiny facade of her family
is something beyond Bobbie's control, a shattering secret that
tears her family apart and sends Bobbie into a spiral of anger and
defiance that she finds echoed only in the electric pain of rock
'n' roll.
Moving from school to school as a Professional
New Kid and all-around loner, Bobbie wonders if she'll ever fit in
anywhere, especially as uncomfortable new feelings begin to
surface. Shunned by her peers, abandoned by her disapproving
mother, Bobbie finds herself drawn to her sympathetic English
teacher, Agatha Claraday. It is her undeniable attraction to the
lovely, enigmatic Agatha that changes everything and starts Bobbie
on a life-altering odyssey of self-discovery—from the Dark
Side of the Moon to My Little Secret and beyond—on a
redemptive search for love, for a place in the world, and for a
space within that feels like home...where becoming Bobbie means
everything about being herself.
Published by Kensington Publishing Corporation.
