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Simon Says -Elaine Marie Alphin

Charles Weston won't play games. Even as a child he refused to play the schoolroom game of Simon Says. Not for fun, and not in life.

Bleeding Hearts - Josh Aterovis

Bleeding Hearts takes a different approach to the traditional mystery. Blending gay romance, mystery and suspense with a powerful coming of age story, Josh Aterovis has created characters and a story that readers everywhere will love.

Reap the Whirlwind – Josh Aterov

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.

Alt Ed -Catherine Atkins

In order to avoid expulsion after committing various offenses, six very different high school students are required to meet with the school counselor, in a group, every Wednesday afternoon for a semester.

When Jeff Comes Home -Catherine Atkins

Two years ago, Jeff Hart was kidnapped at knifepoint. Now his kidnapper is releasing him to return home. But when Jeff finds his family, he feels shell-shocked and unable to tell anyone what happened.

Go Tell It on the Mountain -James Baldwin

Go Tell It On The Mountain, first published in 1953, is Baldwin's first major work, a novel that has established itself as an American classic.

Am I Blue? -Marion Dane Bauer

Each of these stories is original, each is by a noted author for young adults, and each honestly portrays its subject and theme.

If It Doesn't Kill You -Margaret Bechard

Ben just started high school-and it's tough but exciting. The sophisticated new girl who has just moved into the house across the street thinks he's a cat murderer.

Gravel Queen -Tea Benduhn

Aurin has no intention of throwing off their established equilibrium. But when Neila joins their circle, Aurin realizes that she and Neila are becoming more than friends.

Baby Be-Bop (Weetzie Bat) -Francesca Lia Block

Dirk, a sixteen-year-old boy living in Los Angeles, comes to terms with being gay after he receives surreal storytelling visitations from his dead father and great-grandmother.

Beautiful Boys : Two Weetzie Bat Books -Francesca Lia Block

Two Weetzie Bat books.

Cherokee Bat and the Goat Guys (Weetzie Bat) -Francesca Lia Block

With success came power, and power was a dangerous thing. Cherokee and The Goat Guys were swept up in it-and soon it was threatening to destroy them.

Violet & Claire -Francesca Lia Block

This is the story of two girls, racing through space like shadow and light. A photo negative, together they make the perfect image of a girl.

Weetzie Bat (10th Anniversary Edition) -Francesca Lia Block

Ten years ago Francesca Lia Block made a dazzling entrance into the literary scene with what would become one of the most talked-about books of the decade: Weetzie Bat.

Dare Truth or Promise -Paula Boock

Self-assured Louie is gearing up for another successful year in high school, starring in a production of Twelfth Night and running the Comedy Club. Kicked out of her last school, Willa wants only to get through her final year at school quietly.

Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants -Ann Brashares

Over a few bags of cheese puffs they decide to form a sisterhood, and take the vow of The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants . . . the next morning, they say good-bye. And now the journey of the pants–and the most memorable summer of their lives–begins.

Rubyfruit Jungle -Rita Mae Brown

Born a bastard, Molly Bolt is adopted by a dirt-poor Southern couple who want something better for their daughter.

Love & Sex -Michael Cart

In one outstanding volume, ten of today's finest authors of adult and young-adult literature lend their talent and their voices to take a hard, clear look at love and sexuality.

My Father's Scar -Michael Cart

Eighteen year-old Andy Logan has finally made it to his first year of college, but not without some struggle. As he tries to settle in this new environment, he cannot help but recall the events and experiences that have led him there.

Perks of Being a Wallflower -Stephen Chbosky

This is the story of what it's like to grow up in high school. More intimate than a diary, Charlie's letters are singular and unique, hilarious and devastating.

Odder Than Ever -Bruce Coville

Beloved for his hilarious and unexpectedly moving novels, Bruce Coville is also a master of the short story. In this collection he presents stories of unusual breadth and emotional depth.

Athletic Shorts : Six Short Stories -Chris Crutcher

In six tense, exciting short stories, athletes face up to more than sports in tales of love and death, of bigotry and heroism.

A Seahorse Year -Stacey D'Erasmo

In contemporary San Francisco, an extended family is transformed by the emerging breakdown of a troubled adolescent boy. 

Navajo Summer -Jennifer Dewey

Upset at her parents' impending divorce, twelve-year-old Jamie runs away from home to live with a Navajo family that she befriended on earlier trips to the desert country with her father.

My Bicycle Trip -Monna Dingman

On a hundred-mile bike trip, Drew Collins leaves everything that hurts her behind in a spray of dirt from a back tire.

Common Sons -Ronald Donaghe

From the opening scene (where a reckless bout of drinking at a dance ends in a very public kiss between two teenage boys), the citizens of the small town of Common, New Mexico, become aware of the homosexuality in their midst.

The Salvation Mongers - Ronald L. Donaghe

A broken-hearted and enraged Kelly decides to pose as a recruit at Lion’s Mouth Christian Ranch to discover why his beloved William committed suicide after experiencing religious conversion.

Uncle Sean - Ronald. L. Donaghe

When fourteen-year-old Will Barnett meets his Uncle Sean, whom he has not seen since he was six years old, Will is instantly captivated by his uncle's beauty and begins at that moment to fall in love.

Dive -Stacey Donovan

Sometimes questions have no answers. Fifteen-year old Virginia Dunn discovers this after her dog is run over, her dad is diagnosed with a mysterious illness, and her mom’s drinking worsens.

Eight Seconds -Jean Ferris

Each ride on the bucking bull is a lesson in pain. Each landing on the packed dirt is a jarring reminder of reality. Rodeo camp is a tough way to spend a summer, but John is having the time of his life.

Boys on the Rock -John Fox

Billy Connors, high school student in the Bronx, member of the swim team, and all-around regular guy, has to face the fact that he's a little different from everyone else, a little "weird."

Crush -Jane Futcher

In her final year at a prestigious boarding school, reserved, artistic Jinx is badly hurt by the treachery of the rich, pretty girl she has considered her best friend.

Desire Lines -Jack Gantos

When sixteen-year-old Walker gets caught up in a witch-hunt against homosexuals, he is left to stand by and watch as a tragedy unfolds.

Annie on My Mind -Nancy Garden

Liza never knew that falling in love could be so wonderful . . . and so confusing.

Case of the Stolen Scarab (Candlestone Inn Mystery #1) -Nancy Garden

Nikki and Travis find themselves trying to solve a mystery that steadily grows more complicated - and perhaps dangerous as well.

Holly's Secret -Nancy Garden

...Until today I was Holly Lawrence-Jones. But starting tomorrow I'm going to be Yvette Lawrence-Jones. My family doesn't know that yet, but I'll tell them tomorrow, and that's the name I'll tell the people at school, too.

The Year They Burned the Books -Nancy Garden

The school newspaper editor, Jamie finds her editorial voice gagged. Soon the school's health books have been removed from the classrooms for "review," a conservative parents' group stages a library book burning, and Jamie's beloved teacher is forced to resign as the newspaper's faculty advisor.

Singing the Dogstar Blues -Alison Goodman

Seventeen-year-old Joss is a rebel--the daughter of a famous newscaster and a sperm donor; a wild girl who can play a mean harmonica; a student of time travel at the prestigious Centre for Neo-Historical Studies.

Geography Club -Brent Hartinger

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!"

Order of the Poison Oak -Brent Hartinger

Geography Club's Russel Middlebrook is back, and he and his friends are off to work as counselors at a summer camp.

Beautiful Thing -Jonathan Harvey

The play of the classic movie.

Out of the Shadows -Sue Hines

Ro thinks her family is totally unlike anyone else's. Jodie is afraid of herself. So they spend a long time stepping carefully around the truth, hiding secrets that they know are too terrible to reveal.

Jack -A. M. Homes

When Jack's father takes him out in a rowboat on Lake Watchmayoyo and tells his son he's gay, nothing will ever be normal again.

The Misfits -James Howe

Sticks and stones
may break our bones,
but names
will break our spirit.

Breaking Boxes -A. M. Jenkins

Charlie is a teenage loner. His parents are gone, and except for his older brother, he doesn't need anyone, especially friends. But when Charlie ends up suspended after a school fight, he meets Brandon, and things begin to change.

The Bermudez Triangle -Maureen Johnson

Nina returns home bursting with stories about Steve, the quirky yet adorable eco-warrior she fell for hard while away. But when she asks her best friends about their summer romances, an awkward silence follows.

Desert Sons -Mark Kendrick

Scott Faraday is sixteen and has no idea that his world is about to radically change. Scott is fun-loving, in a small-town rock band, and out—but only to a select few.

Deliver Us from Evie -M. E. Kerr

Told by her brother Parr, this is the story of 18-year-old Evie, her Missouri farm family, and the turmoil created by Evie's love for the local banker's daughter.

Night Kites -M. E. Kerr

I'm a night kite, Pete once told Erick. I go up in the dark, alone, on my own, and I'm not afraid to be different.

Blue Coyote -Liza Ketchum

Blue Coyote, sequel to Ketchum's award-winning novel, Twelve Days in August, answers the question most often posed by readers: What ever happened to Alex?

Twelve Days in August -Liza Ketchum

When Alex Beekman and his twin sister, Rita, move to town, Alex threatens sixteen-year-old Todd O'Connor's position on the varsity soccer team, as well as that of Randy Tovitch, the star striker.

Equinox -Monte Killingsworth

Autumn and her parents live on a small island in the state of Washington. Wwhen her father tells her that they must move to the commercial mainland, Autumn is devastated.

Talk; by Kathe Koja

Kit Webster is hiding a secret. Carma, his best friend, has already figured it out, and pushes him to audition for the high school play, Talk. When he's cast as the male lead, he expects to escape his own life for a while and become a different person.

Northridge High Football Camp -S. Joseph Krol

Two star football players discover their attraction to each other while on football camp.

Ten Out of Ten: Ten Winning Plays -Wendy Lamb

A collection of nine outstanding plays that were highlights from previous anthologies and one that appears in print for the first time represent the best plays from the first ten years of the acclaimed Young Playwrights Festival.

Carcass of the Caterpillar-by E Layne Kelly

To climb the water tower, to dive off the bridge into the Santeetlah River, Chad McClain is unrivaled in his tough country-boy antics. Growing up in a small North Carolina town, Chad at eighteen is coming to grips with the fact that perhaps his future will not include college.

My Worst Date -David Leddick

In Miami, where the sun always shines and the people are always fabulous, sixteen-year-old Hugo is ready for something more than school and hanging out.

Boy Meets Boy -David Levithan

Paul is smitten with Noah, and they are beginning a serious relationship when Kyle, Paul’s ex, complicates things by deciding that all is forgiven.

Killing Darcy -Melissa Lucashenko

Angry young Koori Darcy Mango is on parole, and looking for his mob in Northern New South Wales. Befriending the Menzies family wasn't at all what he had in mind, but then neither was the old house hidden in the bush near Desperation Creek.

All the Old Haunts -Chris Lynch

In a new collection of sharp, glittering short stories, award-winning author Chris Lynch gives us a candid and intense look at a collection of young lives from the inside out.

Sonny's House of Spies -George Ella Lyon

Set in Alabama 1950s, 13-year-old Sonny has a dawning awareness of what segregation means.

Clay's Way -Blair Mastbaum

For 15-year-old Sam, a wanna-be punk rocker who writes bad haiku poetry, his middle-class suburban life feels like a prison. Mistaking lust for fate, Sam becomes obsessed with Clay, a 17-year-old surfer, outwardly cool but equally adrift.

The Year of Ice -Brian Malloy

It is 1978 in the Twin Cities, and Kevin Doyle, a high school senior, is a marginal student in love with keggers, rock and roll, and-unbeknownst to anyone else-a boy in his class with thick eyelashes and a bad attitude.

Chinese Garden -Rosemary Manning

The Bampfield School for Girls is housed in a crumbling country estate where love between students is the ultimate crime.

Letters from the Inside John Marsden

Through the mail, Mandy and Tracey become fast friends. They share newsabout their boyfriends, their siblings, and their pets. They trade storiesabout school and home. They confide their every hope and fear. Or do they?

Perfect Snow -Nora Martin

Ben Campbell, 17, is angry. Angry at having to live in a broken-down trailer park. Angry that his unemployed dad isn't a respected ranch boss any more.

The Folded Leaf -William Maxwell

The Folded Leaf is the serenely observed yet deeply moving story of two boys finding one another in the Midwest of the 1920s. 

No Big Deal -Ellen Jaffe McClain

When rumors that Janice's favorite teacher is gay begin to circulate at school and in the community, she decides to stand up for him even in the face of her mother's opposition.

Adam -Anthony McDonald

Adam doesn't do drugs, comes top at school and regularly practices his cello. Then he falls for laborer Sylvain...

Shockproof Sydney Skate -Marijane Meaker

Witty and perceptive, Sydney's coming-of-age story has been a classic of lesbian literature since it was first published in 1973.

Talking in the Dark -Billy Merrell

In an amazing narrative of poems, Billy Merrell tells an ordinary story in an extraordinary way.

Dancing in the Arms of Orion -Stephen R Moore

Kissing Kate -Lauren Myracle

Lissa thought that she and Kate, her beautiful and charismatic best friend, would always be close. Then one summer night Kate kissed Lissa-and Lissa kissed her back.

Shell House -Linda Newbery

Greg’s casual interest in the history of a ruined mansion becomes more personal as he slowly discovers the tragic events that overwhelmed its last inhabitants.

Small Avalanches and Other Stories -Joyce Carol Oates

Intense and unnerving, uplifting and triumphant, the twelve stories in this riveting collection explore the fateful consequences of the choices we make in our everyday lives. 

Lucky -Eddie De Oliveira

Sam is a teen boy who's attracted to both boys and girls. He doesn't know what to call himself or where he fits in.

Get a Clue (Sweet Valley High Senior Year) -Francine Pascal

Another book in the Sweet Valley High Senior Year series.

Keeping You a Secret -Julie Anne Peters

In her trademark, darkly humorous voice, Julie Anne Peters has written a moving, compelling, and witty love story between two girls.

Luna -Julie Anne Peters

Liam has decided he is ready to transition into Luna. Liam/Luna's sister Regan may not be able to deal with the consequences.

What Happened to Lani Garver -Carol Plum-Ucci

The close-knit residents of Hackett Island have never seen anyone quite like Lani Garver. Everything about this new kid is a mystery: Where does Lani come from? How old is Lani? And most disturbing of all, is Lani a boy or a girl?

Pins -Jim Provenzano

Acclaimed sports columnist and fiction writer Jim Provenzano's novel Pins tells the story of bigotry in athletics, and one very short boy who stands up to it.

Metes and Bounds -Jay Quinn

Jay Quinn surveys the expanding emotional and sexual boundaries of Matt, an eighteen-year-old surfer in coastal North Carolina.

Necessary Hunger -Nina Revoyr

As a star basketball player in her last year of high school, Nancy Takahiro's life is about to change forever.

Love Rules -Marilyn Reynolds

This young adult novel portrays the widespread effects of a young lesbian's decision to come out of the closet and live openly and honestly while still in high school.

Ancient Prejudice, Break to New Mutiny -Mark A. Roeder

Mark and Talor struggle to keep their love hidden from a world that cannot understand, but ultimately, no secret is safe in a small Midwestern town.

A Better Place -Mark A. Roeder

What do the poorest boy in town and the captain of the football team have in common?A Better Place is the story of an unlikely pair, who struggle through friendship and betrayal, hardships and heartbreaks, to find the desire of their hearts, to find a better place.

Do You Know That I Love You? -Mark Roeder

Ralph, a young gay teen living on a farm in Indiana, has an aching crush on a rock star and wants nothing more than to see his idol in concert.

Keeper of Secrets -Mark A. Roeder

Keeper of Secrets is the story of two boys, one a gay youth, the other an adolescent gay basher. Fate and the pages of a hundred year old journal bring them together and their lives are forever changed.

Masked Destiny -Mark Roeder

Masked Destiny is the story of Skye, a high school athlete determined to be the Alpha male.

Phantom World -Mark A. Roeder

Toby Riester is sixteen, gay, and searching for his first boyfriend. He discovers many potential candidates. Each boy has his own seductive qualities and each is more than his seems. One of them, however, is far more dangerous than Toby ever guessed. 

The Soccer Field Is Empty -Mark Roeder

The story of Mark and Taylor, two sixteen-year-old high school athletes, is a tale of love and happiness torn asunder by a world that understands too late.

Someone Is Killing the Gay Boys of Verona -Mark Roeder

Someone is killing the gay boys of Verona, Indiana, and only one gay youth stands in the way. He finds himself pitted against powerful foes, but finds allies in places he did not expect.

Someone Is Watching -Mark A Roeder

Someone Is Watching. Someone Knows. It was a nightmare come true for seventeen-year-old Ethan. It's hard hiding a secret. It's even harder keeping that secret when someone else knows.

The Summer Of My Discontent: A Better Place -Mark A. Roeder

"The Summer of My Discontent" is a tapestry of tales delving into life as a gay teen in a small Midwestern town. Dane is a sixteen-year-old runaway determined to start a new life of daring, love, and sex--no matter the cost to himself, or others. 

This Time Around -Mark A. Roeder

This Time Around follows Jordan and Ralph as they become involved in a struggle with Reverend Wellerson, a TV evangelist, over the fate of gay youth centers.

The Vampire's Heart -Mark A. Roeder

Graham Granger is intrigued by the new boy in school. Graham’s heart aches for a friend, and maybe a boyfriend, but is Josiah the answer to his dreams?

17: A Novel in Prose Poems -Liz Rosenberg

The first day of Stephanie’s junior year is a step into the underworld,  led into desire, depression, and alienation by the intoxicating yet strangely distant figure of Denny Pistill.

Empress of the World -Sara Ryan

Nicola Lancaster is spending the summer at the Siegel Institute Summer Program for Gifted Youth-a hothouse of smart, articulate, intense teenagers, living like college students for eight weeks.

Far from Maddy -C. C. Saint-Clair

One night Jo disappears. She’s 22 yrs old. Her lover, Maddy, is not about to give up...

Morgan in the Mirror -C. C. Saint-Clair

Saint-Clair’s latest novel, Morgan in the Mirror, moves away from her usual lesbian contexts, and tackles the issue of transgenderism.

Rainbow Boys -Alex Sanchez

Three teenage boys, coming of age and out of the closet. In a revealing debut novel that percolates with passion and wit, Alex Sanchez follows three very different high-school seniors as their struggles with sexuality and intolerance draw them into a triangle of love, betrayal, and ultimately, friendship.

Rainbow High -Alex Sanchez

As their high school days draw to a close, three friends move toward one of life's most defining crossroads, each will be compelled to choose his own direction -- and prepare for the consequences. 

So Hard to Say -Alex Sanchez

Frederick is the shy new boy, and Xio is the bubbly chica who lends him a pen on the first day of class. They become fast friends -- but when Xio decides she wants to be more than friends, Frederick isn't so sure.

Funny Boy -Shyam Selvadurai

In the north of Sri Lanka there's a war going on between the army and the Tamil Tigers, and gradually it begins to encroach on the Arjie's comfortable life.

Unlived Affections -George Shannon

After his grandmother's death, eighteen-year-old Willie finds a box of old letters which explain many family secrets. 

Hookup Artist -Tucker Shaw

In all my years of matchmaking it had taken me until then to realize: The trick was not to hope. Not for myself, anyway. I'd save my hope for the people I set up.

Changelings -Jo Sinclair

Set in the1950s, in a white neighbourhood, Judy falls in love with a young black girl.

Growing Up Gay/Growing Up Lesbian: A Literary Anthology -Bennett L. Singer

Growing up Gay, Growing up Lesbian is the first literary anthology geared specifically to gay and lesbian youth.

A Question of Innocents -Theresa Smith

A coming of age story about two teenage girls from opposite sides of the river who meet and fall in love. Faced with social barriers and secrets from the past, can these two young women find a way to make it work between them?

The World of Normal Boys -K. M. Soehnlein

The time is the late 1970s - an age of gas shortages, head shops, and Saturday Night Fever. The place, suburban New Jersey. At a time when the teenagers around him are coming of age, Robin MacKenzie is coming undone.

Revolutionary Voices -Amy Sonnie

Revolutionary Voices presents a collection of experiences, ideas, dreams, and fantasies expressed through prose, poetry, artwork, letters, diaries, and performance pieces.

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.

Tomorrow Wendy -Shelley Stoehr

I've discovered that if you wear a big enough hat, no one worries much about what s going on inside your head, says Cary. And no one, not even her boyfriend, Danny, knows about the things inside Cary s head. Especially the feelings she has for Wendy.

Not The Only One: Lesbian And Gay Fiction For Teens -Jane Summer

Collection of short stories to be published in August 2004.

Blue Lawn -William Taylor

David is 15 and the star player of his school's rugby team. Sixteen-year-old Theo is an outsider, attractive but not altogether likable, and not particularly interested in making friends. 

Jerome -William Taylor

Marco and Katie, devastated by the death of their friend Jerome and separated by thousands of miles, turn to each other for comfort and answers.

The Foul Line -F. Thibou

A look at teenage life as seen through the eyes of a seventeen year old basketball phenom, Ashley Scheid, whose homosexuality creates a world of conflict.

November Ever After -Laura Torres

In the aftermath of her mother's death, sixteen-year-old Amy finds solace in the company of her best friend Sara, but then she is shocked to discover that Sara is romantically involved with another girl.

Fat Tuesday -Susan Vaught

Rusty Quinn's mom loses touch with reality, her best friend's dad explodes over a kiss, her other best friend gets committed to a psych ward, and the sanest person she knows is an egotistical Finnish exchange student who swears in a language nobody understands.

Tommy Stands Alone -Gloria Velasquez

The third novel in the Roosevelt High School Series focuses on the difficult issue of a young man's struggle with his sexual orientation--a conflict made more difficult by his family's traditional Hispanic expectations. 

Alf -Bruno Vogel, Samuel B. Johnson

Fearful of the sexual side of their relationship, Alf enlists in the German army, and his letters from the front radicalize his friend, who becomes an agitator against the war.

Peter -Kate Walker

Pressured by his peers and society to conform to the stereotyped macho image, fifteen-year-old Peter feels both confused and repelled. His confusion and his horror increase when he finds himself attracted to his brother"s best friend, David, who is gay.

Erik & Isabelle -Kim Wallace

Two best friends share their thoughts and feelings with one another as they experience romantic crushes, family drama, growing pains, and personal victories.

Sevens: Betrayal -Scott Wallens

Reed has promised himself that he will always look out for his brother T. J. After all, he owes T. J. But last week, T.J.'s coach at Boston College called and offered Reed the starting quarterback spot for the fall-the position T. J. thinks will be his.  

Sevens: Exposed -Scott Wallens

Jeremy's life was perfect. He was the running back of the football team. He had been dating Tara, the most beautiful girl in school, for two years. Then he met Josh.

Sevens: Meltdown -Scott Wallens

Jane's lying on her bed. It's covered in a sheet of books and papers and notebooks and pens. Magna Carta, carbolic acid, carte blanche. She pulls the unopened SAT envelope from the pocket of her dirty jeans...

Sevens: Pushed -Scott Wallens

Danny doesn't understand why he needs to be on medication. The drugs make his mind fuzzy. They dull his creativity. So Danny stops taking his meds. And he starts to feel like his old self. Then Danny's history teacher pushes him a little too far.

Sevens: Redemption -Scott Wallens

Peter has always felt as though his accident was punishment for what happened seven years ago. Recently, all of his old friends have come back into his life, and things are looking up. But when the group is reunited and they finally face the details of that tragic day, he has to wonder if he's been forgiven.

Sevens: Shattered -Scott Wallens

Meena was babysitting Trace Clayton, the son of her parents' best friends, when a fire broke out in the living room. Meena was able to save Trace, but nothing more. No one really knows how it happened. Except Meena.

Sevens: Torn -Scott Wallens

Karyn's mom moves from man to man in an attempt to feel wanted, loved. But Karyn doesn't have to try. Her boyfriend, T. J., worships the ground she walks on. Too bad his brother Reed is the one she really loves. 

Billy's Boy -Patricia Nell Warren

The powerful story of a teenage boy's odyssey, "Billy's Boy" has already been a #1 bestseller on the "Lambda" and "Advocate" lists in hardcover, and has garnered rave reviews from "Library Journal, Lambda Book Report", and "The Washington Blade". 

Words Like Weeds  -Anya Weinstein

See the town. The town is quiet and small. The town is full of good, happy people. See the house. The house is pretty and blue. It has big front windows. See the windows shine. Shine, windows, shine.

Whistle Me Home -Barbara Wersba

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.

My Heartbeat -G. Weyr

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.

Girl Walking Backwards -Bett Williams

Skye wants what all teenagers want--to survive high school. She lives in Southern California, though, which is making that difficult.

Hard Love -Ellen Wittlinger

Since his parents' divorce, John's mother hasn't touched him, her new fiancé wants them to move away, and his father would rather be anywhere than at Friday night dinner with his son.

What's in a Name -Ellen Wittlinger

There's something brewing in the town of Scrub Harbor and it's not just about changing the name from Scrub Harbor to Folly Bay.

True Believer -Virginia Euwer Wolff, Russell Gordon

LaVaughn is fifteen now, and she's still fiercely determined to go to college. But that's the only thing she's sure about.

The House You Pass -Jacqueline Woodson

Staggerlee's a loner by nature, and her family is set apart by her parents' interracial marriage and by her celebrity grandparents' tragic deaths.

From the Notebooks of Melanin Sun -Jacqueline Woodson

Melanin Sun's mother has some big news: she's in love with a woman. Now he has many decisions to make.

Orphea Proud -Sharon Dennis Wyeth

This is a place where wise old ladies live and boys act like horses. This is a vision of love that was crushed and brought back to life. And this is my story. I’m Orphea Proud. Welcome to the show.