FINISHED:
Goldberg, Susan. (2017). Gender Revolution [Special Issue]. Journal of the National Geographic Society, 231(1).

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STARTED:
Westerfeld, Scott. (2017). Horizon [Horizon Book 1]. New York: Scholastic.

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FINISHED: 
Konigsberg, Bill. (2017). Honestly Ben. New York: Arthur A. Levine/Scholastic.

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STARTED:
Hatke, Ben. (2016). Mighty Jack [Book 1]. New York: First Second/Roaring Brook.

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FINISHED:
Aciman, André. (2007). Call Me By Your Name. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux.

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STARTED:
Zusak, Markus. (2005). The Book Thief. New York: Knopf.

[Been meaning to read this for many years - we've even had our own copy sitting a shelf for quite awhile.]

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FINISHED:
Hartinger, Brent. (2007). Split screen: Attack of the Soul-sucking Brain Zombies. New York: HarperCollins.


[LOVE LOVE LOVE these books!  I've said it before many times, but, where were these books when I was growing up??  Funny and matter-of-fact, treating homosexuality (and bisexuality) as plain as one would heterosexuality.  AND, there's a "discussion" between Russel and his parents (who find out about his being gay... and don't handle it so well...) that is BRILLIANT.  I'm going to copy those pages and hold on to them - Russel doesn't back down at all in the talk, and, in fact, makes some brilliant points that render the priest somewhat speechless.  Where's the next one??]


STARTED:
Yancey, Rick. (2013). The 5th wave. New York: G.P. Putnam's/Penguin.


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FINISHED:
Hartinger, Brent. (2005). The Order of the Poison Oak. New York: HarperCollins.

[Russel is back!  This time, it's summer break and he volunteers to be a summer camp counselor with his friends Min and Gunnar - newly "out", it's his effort to be somewhere where he won't be harassed for being "the gay kid".  And, it turns out to be a summer filled with misbehaved 10-year old burn survivors, encounters with love (even if they turn out to be jerks), forest fires, poison oak, and therapeutic folktales.]

STARTED:
Walker, Karen Thompson. (2012). Age of Miracles: a novel. New York: Random House.

[Who doesn't love a good end-of-the-world book??]

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FINISHED:
Sanchez, Alex. (2011). Boyfriends with girlfriends. New York: Simon & Schuster.

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STARTED:
Bulla, Clyde Robert. (1962). The ring and the fire. New York: Thomas Y. Crowell.

[Boning on up on the story of the Ring and the Nibelung as I'm going to see all four of Wagner's Ring Cycle operas next week...]

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