Book cover for Any Other Girl

Any Other Girl

Phillips, Rebecca.
Call Number: YA

(Gay parents)

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Light, breezy romance follows super flirt Kat. Newly ostracized from her friends aafter innocently flirting with her best friend's boyfriend, she's off for the summer with her two dads to their lake cabin where she meets Emmett. New to the summer lake community, she finds herself drawn to him despite the fact that her cousin Harper has asked for her help in attracting Emmett for herself.

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Fans of the Impossible Life

Scelsa, Kate.
Call Number: YA

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Three misfits become friends and form a unique bond over the course of the school year that tests their friendship as well as themselves when Sebby and Mira invite Jeremy into their intimate circle. Jeremy is starting the new school at St. Francis a year after a bullying incident that shined a glaring light on him and his two dads. Lovely, highly individualized and beautifully realized characters centering around Jeremy, a misfit whose previous school year ended with a homophobic bullying incident after he suggested there were gay themes in The Great Gatsby.

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The Inexplicable Logic of My Life

Saenz, Benjamin Alire,
Call Number: YA

A story set on the American border with Mexico, about family and friendship, life and death, and one teen struggling to understand what his adoption does and doesn't mean about who he is. Sal's rich, complex relationships with his friends and adoptive gay father serve as his foundation during his senior year of high school which finds him behaving in uncharacteristic ways in response to a variety of events in his life.

 

 
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One of Those Hideous Books Where the Mother Dies

Sones, Sonya.
Call Number: YA

(Gay father)

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When 15 year-old Ruby 's mother dies, she flies from Boston to Los Angeles to live with the father she's never met, big time movie star Whip Logan. Irreverent and heartfelt, Ruby longs to return home to her best friend and boyfriend and the life with her mother she once had. 

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Roomies

Zarr, Sara.
Call Number: YA

(Gay father)

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It's the summer before their freshman year of college and New Jerseyan Elizabeth reaches out to her assigned roommate Lauren in San Francisco, touching off a summer of correspondence as they circle around their differences, find commonalities from a distance and slowly develop a friendship.  

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Skyscraping

Jensen, Cordelia.
Call Number: YA

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Set in 1993, Mira enters her senior year and has to cope with discovering that her father is not only having an affair with another man, and that he's contracted HIV, but that her parents have an open relationship. Throughout the year she'll learn about what it means to love and forgive, and to learn and grow. 

 
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We Are All Made Of Molecules

Nielsen-Fernlund, Susin, 1964-
Call Number: YA

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When Stewart's dad gets involved with Ashley's mom, Stewart and his Dad move into Ashley and her mother's house. Stewart goes to a new school where popular Ashley does her best to distance herself from him. Told in alternating points of view, Stewart and Ashley must both grapple with not only their parents' relationship, but the presence of Ashley's father, who's coming out prompted her parent's divorce, as he lives in the guest house out back.