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24 books with the same feel
Include books by the same authorAlex As Well
Alyssa Brugman · 224 pages
Raised as a boy, fourteen-year-old Alex, who has male and female sexual body parts, rejects the hormonal medications prescribed by his mother and decides to live as a girl.
Middlesex
Jeffrey Eugenides · 544 pages
A unique coming of age story. While the main character in this novel is dealing with gender identity issues the main focus of this brilliantly written story is the confusion we all face as we grow into the person we were meant to be. The reader finds himself identifying with the main character's experiences. This is a brilliantly written story. The prose is honest in a way that few authors dare t
After School Nightmare, Volume 5
Setona Mizushiro · 200 pages
Eon: Dragoneye Reborn
Alison Goodman · 576 pages
Sixteen-year-old Eon has a dream, and a mission. For years, he's been studying sword-work and magic, toward one end. He and his master hope that he will be chosen as a Dragoneye-an apprentice to one of the twelve energy dragons of good fortune. But Eon has a dangerous secret. He is actually Eona, a sixteen-year-old girl who has been masquerading as a twelve-year-old boy. Females are forbidden t
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.
Freakboy
Kristin Elizabeth Clark · 437 pages
Brendan Chase is an athlete, a star student, and boyfriend to the perfect girlfriend, Vanessa. She has silky brown hair, soft skin, and gentle curves -- everything that Brendan could ever want. Except that Brendan wants much more. He doesn't just want to be with her; he wants to be like her. At least sometimes he does. Is there a name for people like him? Guys who maybe sometimes want to be girls?
Drew
T. Cooper, Allison Glock · 285 pages
"It is the eve of Ethan Miller's freshman year. He's psyched to be in high school (finally). Until the next morning. When he awakens as a girl. Ethan is a "Changer," one of a little-known race of humans who live out each of their years of high school as someone new. Ethan must now navigate the treacherous waters of ninth grade as Drew Bohner, a petite blonde with an unfortunate last name." - Provi
Annabel
Kathleen Winter · 480 pages
Born a boy and a girl but raised as a boy, Wayne or "Annabel" struggles with his identity growing up in a small Canadian town and seeks freedom by moving to the city.
If I Was Your Girl
Meredith Russo · 320 pages
Amanda Hardy is the new girl in school. Like anyone else, all she wants is to make friends and fit in. But Amanda is keeping a secret, and she’s determined not to get too close to anyone. But when she meets sweet, easygoing Grant, Amanda can’t help but start to let him into her life. As they spend more time together, she realizes just how much she is losing by guarding her heart. She finds hers
Luna
Julie Anne Peters · 248 pages
Regan's brother Liam can't stand the person he is during the day. Like the moon from whom Liam has chosen his female namesake, his true self, Luna, only reveals herself at night. In the secrecy of his basement bedroom Liam transforms himself into the beautiful girl he longs to be, with help from his sister's clothes and makeup. Now, everything is about to change-Luna is preparing to emerge from he
Catalyst
Laurie Halse Anderson · 232 pages
Meet Kate Malone—straight-A science and math geek, minister's daughter, ace long-distance runner, new girlfriend (to Mitchell "Early Decision Harvard" Pangborn III), unwilling family caretaker, and emotional avoidance champion. Kate manages her life by organizing it as logically as the periodic table. She can handle it all—or so she thinks. Then, things change as suddenly as a string of chemical r
Jumpstart the World
Catherine Ryan Hyde
Sixteen-year-old Elle falls in love with Frank, the neighbor who helps her adjust to being on her own in a big city, but learning that he is transgendered turns her world upside-down.
Defending Taylor
Miranda Kenneally · 293 pages
Taylor, a senator's daughter, was captain of the soccer team and contender for valedictorian at her private school, but gets kicked out, sent to a rival high school, and soon she is falling for her brother's friend Ezra. Taylor's always pushed herself to be perfect, but one impulsive lie to cover for her boyfriend and she's kicked out of private school. Starting over at Hundred Oaks High it's har
Ask Me How I Got Here
Christine Heppermann · 225 pages
Addie has always known what she was running toward. In cross country, in life, in love. Until she and her boyfriend her sensitive, good-guy boyfriend are careless one night and she ends up pregnant. Addie makes the difficult choice to have an abortion. And after that even though she knows it was the right decision for her nothing is the same anymore. She doesn t want anyone besides her parents and
What Happened to Lani Garver
Carol Plum-Ucci · 336 pages
Sixteen-year-old Claire is unable to face her fears about a recurrence of her leukemia, her eating disorder, her need to fit in with the popular crowd on Hackett Island, and her mother's alcoholism until the enigmatic Lani Garver helps her get control of her life at the risk of his own.
Beautiful Music for Ugly Children
Kirstin Cronn-Mills
"This is Beautiful Music for Ugly Children, on community radio 90.3, KZUK. I’m Gabe. Welcome to my show." My birth name is Elizabeth, but I’m a guy. Gabe. My parents think I’ve gone crazy and the rest of the world is happy to agree with them, but I know I’m right. I’ve been a boy my whole life. When you think about it, I’m like a record. Elizabeth is my A side, the song everybody knows, and Gab
Herculine Barbin: Being the Recently Discovered Memoirs of a Nineteenth-Century French Hermaphrodite
Michel Foucault · 199 pages
I am J
Cris Beam · 326 pages
J, who feels like a boy mistakenly born as a girl, runs away from his best friend who has rejected him and the parents he thinks do not understand him when he finally decides that it is time to be who he really is.
Dairy Queen
Catherine Gilbert Murdock · 275 pages
After spending her summer running the family farm and training the quarterback for her school's rival football team, sixteen-year-old D.J. decides to go out for the sport herself, not anticipating the reactions of those around her.
The DUFF: Designated Ugly Fat Friend
Kody Keplinger · 352 pages
This is about a girl named Bianca and she just learnt that she is the DUFF of her friend group.
A Matter of Heart
Amy Fellner Dominy · 313 pages
Sixteen-year-old Abby Lipman is on track to win the state swim championships and qualify for the Olympic trials when a fainting incident at a swim meet leads to the diagnosis of a deadly heart condition. Now Abby is forced to discover who she is without the one thing that's defined her entire life.