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24 books with the same feel
Include books by the same authorDance on My Grave
Aidan Chambers · 251 pages
Hal's summer affair with Barry Goldman ends tragically when Hal discovers he is much more committed to the relationship than his friend.
Blankets
Craig Thompson · 592 pages
Loosely based on the author's life, chronicling his journey from childhood to adulthood, exploring the people, experiences, and beliefs that he encountered along the way.
Holding the Man
Timothy Conigrave · 304 pages
Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic
Alison Bechdel · 236 pages
A fresh and brilliantly told memoir from a cult favorite comic artist, marked by gothic twists, a family funeral home, sexual angst, and great books. This breakout book by Alison Bechdel is a darkly funny family tale, pitch-perfectly illustrated with Bechdel's sweetly gothic drawings. Like Marjane Satrapi's Persepolis, it's a story exhilaratingly suited to graphic memoir form. Meet Alison's
Persepolis 2: The Story of a Return
Marjane Satrapi · 187 pages
187 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmGN500L Lexile
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.
Empress of the World
Sara Ryan · 213 pages
Nicola Lancaster is spending eight weeks at the Siegel Institute Summer Program for Gifted Youth, a hothouse of smart, articulate, intense teenagers. She soon falls in with Katrina (Manic Computer Chick), Isaac (Nice-Guy-Despite-Himself), Kevin (Inarticulate Composer) . . . and Battle. Battle Hall Davies is a beautiful blonde dancer, and everything Nic isn't. The two become friends-and then, start
Smile
Raina Telgemeier · 213 pages
Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe
Benjamin Alire Saenz · 368 pages
Fifteen-year-old Ari Mendoza is an angry loner with a brother in prison, but when he meets Dante and they become friends, Ari starts to ask questions about himself, his parents, and his family that he has never asked before.
Blue Is the Warmest Color
Julie Maroh · 160 pages
"Blue is the Warmest Color is a graphic novel about growing up, falling in love, and coming out. Clementine, a high school student, has an average life: she has friends, family, and the romantic attention of the boys in her school. When her openly gay best friend takes her out on the town, she wanders into a lesbian bar where she encounters Emma: a punkish, confident girl with blue hair. Their att
Love Letters to the Dead
Ava Dellaira · 327 pages
When Laurel starts writing letters to dead people for a school assignment, she begins to spill about her sister's mysterious death, her mother's departure from the family, her new friends, and her first love.
The Vast Fields of Ordinary
Nick Burd · 309 pages
It's Dade Hamilton's last summer at home. He has a crappy job at Food World, a boyfriend who won't publicly acknowledge his existence (maybe because Pablo also has a girlfriend), and parents on the verge of a divorce. College is Dade's shining beacon of possibility, a horizon to keep him from floating away. Then he meets the mysterious Alex Kincaid. Falling in real love finally lets Dade come o
Tipping the Velvet
Sarah Waters · 480 pages
Nan King, an oyster girl, is captivated by the music hall phenomenon Kitty Butler, a male impersonator extraordinaire treading the boards in Canterbury. Through a friend at the box office, Nan manages to visit all her shows and finally meet her heroine. Soon after, she becomes Kitty's dresser and the two head for the bright lights of Leicester Square where they begin a glittering career as music-h
Unlikely
Jeffrey Brown · 256 pages
The cartoonist uses a full-length graphic novel format to tell the bittersweet story of how he lost his virginity at age 24 and presents vignettes from his relationship with Allisyn that take place before and after the event.
Read Me Like a Book
Liz Kessler · 304 pages
Ashleigh Walker is a mediocre student with an assortment of friends, a sort-of boyfriend, and no plans for the future. Then a straight-from-college English teacher, Miss Murray, takes over Ash s class and changes everything. Miss Murray smiles a lot. She shares poetry with curse words in it. She s, well, cool. And she seems to really care about her students. About Ashleigh. For the first time, Ash
Annie on My Mind
Nancy Garden · 233 pages
This groundbreaking book is the story of two teenage girls whose friendship blossoms into love and who, despite pressures from family and school that threaten their relationship, promise to be true to each other and their feelings. This book is so truthful and honest, it has been banned from many school libraries and even publicly burned in Kansas City.
The Last Song
Nicholas Sparks · 390 pages
#1 bestselling author Nicholas Sparks's new novel is at once a compelling family drama and a heartrending tale of young love.Seventeen year old Veronica "Ronnie" Miller's life was turned upside-down when her parents divorced and her father moved from New York City to Wilmington, North Carolina. Three years later, she remains angry and alientated from her parents, especially her father...until her
Kiss and Tell: A Romantic Résumé, Ages 0 to 22
MariNaomi · 331 pages
Recounts the author's romantic experiences, from first love to heartbreak.
The Summer I Wasn't Me
Jessica Verdi · 342 pages
"Ever since her mom found out she was in love with a girl, seventeen-year-old Lexi's afraid that what's left of her family is going to fall apart for good. New Horizons summer camp promises a new life for Lexi--she swears she can change. She can learn to like boys. But denying her feelings is harder than she thinks"--
Little & Lion
Brandy Colbert · 341 pages
When Suzette comes home to Los Angeles from her boarding school in New England, she isn't sure if she'll ever want to go back. LA is where her friends and family are (along with her crush, Emil). And her stepbrother, Lionel, who has been diagnosed with bipolar disorder, needs her emotional support. But as she settles into her old life, Suzette finds herself falling for someone new; the same girl h
Silhouette of a Sparrow
Molly Beth Griffin
During the summer of 1926 in the lake resort town of Excelsior, Minnesota, sixteen-year-old Garnet, who dreams of indulging her passion for ornithology, is resigned to marrying a nice boy and settling into middle-class homemaking until she takes a liberating job in a hat shop and begins an intense, secret relationship with a daring and beautiful flapper.
So Hard to Say
Alex Sanchez · 230 pages
Thirteen year old Xio,a Mxican American girl, and Frederick, who has just moved to California from Wisconsin,quickly become close friends, but when Xio starts thinking of Frederick as her boyfriend, he must cconfront his feelings of confusion and face the fear of him might being gay.