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Winger

Andrew Smith

Two years younger than his classmates at a prestigious boarding school, fourteen-year-old Ryan Dean West grapples with living in the dorm for troublemakers, falling for his female best friend who thinks of him as just a kid, and playing wing on the Varsity rugby team with some of his frightening new dorm-mates.

BullyingTeenagersDark ComedyLGBTQ+ Protagonist
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Harry Potter and the Cursed Child - Parts One and Two

Jack Thorne, J.K. Rowling · 352 pages

Stage PlayBullyingTeenagersYoung Adult
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Wonder

R.J. Palacio · 330 pages

## **Don't judge a boy by his face.** ## Auggie is a kid who just wants to be ordinary. He does ordinary things, like play on his Xbox and watch TV and eat. But ordinary kids don't make people stare just by walking down the block. They don't scare kids by looking at his face. They *definitely* haven't had over 20 surgeries by age 10. But when Auggie starts going to school for the first time in h

Pet LossBullyingTeenagersYoung Adult
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We Are the Ants

Shaun David Hutchinson · 464 pages

BullyingDark ComedyLGBTQ+ ProtagonistSuicide Content
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Parrotfish

Ellen Wittlinger · 304 pages

BullyingTeenagersLGBTQ+ ProtagonistYoung Adult
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Every Day

David Levithan · 330 pages

Every morning A wakes in a different person's body, in a different person's life, learning over the years to never get too attached, until he wakes up in the body of Justin and falls in love with Justin's girlfriend, Rhiannon.

TeenagersLGBTQ+ ProtagonistBullyingSuicide Content
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Rainbow Boys

Alex Sanchez · 233 pages

Jason Carrillo is a jock with a steady girlfriend, but he can't stop dreaming about sex...with other guys. Kyle Meeks doesn't look gay, but he is. And he hopes he never has to tell anyone -- especially his parents. Nelson Glassman is "out" to the entire world, but he can't tell the boy he loves that he wants to be more than just friends. Three teenage boys, coming of age and out of the

BullyingTeenagersLGBTQ+ ProtagonistYoung Adult
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Geography Club

Brent Hartinger · 226 pages

Russel Middlebrook is convinced he's the only gay kid at Goodkind High School.Then his online gay chat buddy turns out to be none other than Kevin, the popular but closeted star of the school's baseball team. Soon Russel meets other gay students, too. There's his best friend Min, who reveals that she is bisexual, and her soccer-playing girlfriend Terese. Then there's Terese's politically active fr

BullyingTeenagersLGBTQ+ ProtagonistYoung Adult
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BullyingTeenagersYoung AdultSuicide Content
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With or Without You

Brian Farrey · 348 pages

When are you too far in to get out? Eighteen-year-old Evan and his best friend, Davis, get beaten up for being loners. For being gay. For just being themselves. But as rough as things often seem, at least Evan can take comfort in his sweet, sexy boyfriend Erik, whom he’s kept secret from everyone for almost a year. Then Evan and Davis are recruited to join the Chasers, a fringe crowd that

BullyingTeenagersLGBTQ+ ProtagonistYoung Adult
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Brutal Youth

Anthony Breznican · 422 pages

"Three freshmen must join forces to survive at a troubled, working-class Catholic high school with a student body full of bullies and zealots, and a faculty that's even worse in Anthony Breznican's Brutal Youth. With a plunging reputation and enrollment rate, Saint Michael's has become a crumbling dumping ground for expelled delinquents and a haven for the stridently religious when incoming freshm

BullyingTeenagersDark ComedyDark
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End of the Innocence

John Goode · 316 pages

BullyingTeenagersLGBTQ+ ProtagonistYoung Adult
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About a Boy

Nick Hornby · 288 pages

Nick Hornby's second bestselling novel is about sex, manliness and fatherhood. Will is thirty-six, comfortable and child-free. And he's discovered a brilliant new way of meeting women - through single-parent groups. Marcus is twelve and a little bitnerdish: he's got the kind of mother who made him listen to Joni Mitchell rather than Nirvana. Perhaps they can help each other out a little bit, and b

BullyingDark ComedyTeenagersSuicide Content
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Falling into Place

Amy Zhang · 304 pages

BullyingTeenagersSuicide ContentYoung Adult
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Cat on a Hot Tin Roof

Tennessee Williams · 158 pages

Members of a neurotic Southern family gather to face the impending death of their patriarch, Big Daddy, and battle over the inheritance of his vast estate.

Stage PlayDark ComedyLGBTQ+ ProtagonistDark
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Kamikaze Boys

Jay Bell · 328 pages

Everyone at school thinks that Connor Williams is a dangerous psychopath, but when he rescues David Henry from the clutches of a bully, the two outsiders form an alliance of the heart. The world isn’t done messing with them though. David and Connor will have to fight to keep their love safe if they ever want to find their happily-ever-after. Kamikaze Boys, a Lambda Literary award-winning novel,

BullyingTeenagersLGBTQ+ ProtagonistYoung Adult
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A Silent Voice, Vol. 7

Yoshitoki Oima · 192 pages

Shoya’s life hangs on by a thread after he jumped just in time to save Shoko. Despite the despair, Shoko is determined to move forward and get back what she thinks she has ruined… But broken friendships can heal, too. Quietly, but surely, the disbanded crew finds their spirit — the show must go on! As the movie-making reconvenes, the kids begin to transform the world that had once been so cruel to

BullyingTeenagersSuicide ContentYoung Adult
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New Boy

Tracy Chevalier

Stage PlayTeenagersYoung Adult
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Fat Pig

Neil LaBute · 96 pages

Stage PlayBullyingDark
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Heartstopper

Alice Oseman · 336 pages

TeenagersBullyingLGBTQ+ ProtagonistYoung Adult
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Before I Fall

Lauren Oliver

BullyingTeenagersSuicide ContentYoung Adult
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Go Ask Alice

Anonymous · 185 pages

You Can't Ask Alice Anything Anymore But you can do something. Read her diary. Strong, painfully honest, nakedly candid. The actual story of a desperate girl on drugs and on the run who almost made it. --back cover

BullyingTeenagersSuicide ContentYoung Adult
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I'll Get There. It Better Be Worth the Trip.

John Donovan · 189 pages

Thirteen-year-old Davy has a difficult time adjusting to his grandmother's death and life in New York with his erratic mother. He becomes close friends with a male classmate at his new school. The friendship later turns sexual, eventually causing Davy to struggle with feelings of guilt. It was one of the first mainstream teen novels to deal with homosexuality.

Pet LossLGBTQ+ ProtagonistYoung Adult
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The S-Word

Chelsea Pitcher · 320 pages

BullyingTeenagersSuicide ContentYoung Adult

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