Books For Gay and Lesbian Youth
Teen Fiction By Title (with covers)
Teen Fiction By Title (text only)
The House You Pass on the Way
Jacqueline Woodson
Staggerlee doesn't feel like she belongs in her own
home town. She's a loner by nature, and her family is set apart by
her parents' interracial marriage and by her celebrity
grandparents' tragic deaths. Staggerlee claims her dog and
harmonica are all the company she needs, but she yearns to have a
friend who understands her. She once had a friend, Hazel, whom she
felt connected to in a way she'd never felt before, until Hazel
rejected her.
Then Daddy's sister Ida sends her adopted
daughter, Tyler, to stay with the family for the summer.
Staggerlee learns Tyler has been sent there to get over her
"misguided" feelings towards girls. The two girls soon
discover they can tell each other the thing they can't tell anyone
else, but they struggle with what their feelings mean and how
others would react if they knew.
Published by Puffin Books.
