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From: Nancy Silverrod <nsilverrod>
Date: Tue, 20 May 2008 11:49:09 -0700
The "questioning" titles that come to my mind are
Kerr, M.E. Hello, I Lied. Harper Collins, 1997. Gay teen, Lang, finds himself attracted to a girl during his seventeenth summer, and finds it very confusing. In the end, despite familial pressure, he concludes that he really is gay.
Ketchum, Liza. Blue Coyote. Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, 1997. As Alex searches for his missing friend, Tito, he questions his feelings for him, finally coming to accept that he is gay.
Matthews, Andrew. The Flip Side. London: Mammoth, 2001. New York: Delacorte, 2003. This title deals with a boy's feelings about cross-dressing which come up during a high school production of As You Like It.
Ryan, Sara. Empress of the World. Viking, 2001. Nic isn't sure if she's bisexual or lesbian, but feels accepting about either possibility.
Sinclair, April. Coffee Will Make You Black, Hyperion, 1994; and Ain't Gonna Be the Same Fool Twice, Hyperion, 1996. Bi-racial Stevie deals with issues of race and sexuality.
Sweeney,
<http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/491543.Aoibheann_Sweeney> Aoibheann. Among Other Things, I've Taken Up Smoking. Penguin, 2007. Both Miranda's and her father's sexuality come into question.
Wersba, Barbara. Tunes for a Small Harmonica, Harper & Row, 1976, in which the protagonist does some experimenting in order to discover whether or not she is a lesbian.
Nancy Silverrod, Librarian
San Francisco Public Library
100 Larkin St.
San Francisco, CA 94102-4733
415-557-4417
nsilverrod at sfpl.org
Books are the bees which carry the quickening pollen from one to another mind. -James Russell Lowell, poet, editor, and diplomat (1819-1891)
A closed mind is like a closed book: just a block of wood. -Chinese Proverb
-----Original Message----- From: ccbc-net-bounces at ccbc.education.wisc.edu
[mailto:ccbc-net-bounces at ccbc.education.wisc.edu] On Behalf Of Nigrelli, Joanna Sent: Tuesday, May 20, 2008 9:42 AM To: Kathleen T. Horning; ccbc-net at ccbc.ad.education.wisc.edu Subject: Re: [CCBC-Net] GLBTQ Literature
The book that came to my mind regarding questioning teens is The
Bermudez Triangle by Maureen Johnson. While one of the teens is a
lesbian, her romantic interest is not quite as sure and explores her
feelings towards the opposite sex.
It's not a solid questioning title, but there is that discussion.
Joanna Nigrelli
Teen Librarian - Austin Public Library
www.wiredforyouth.com
TLA YART Chair 2008-2009
http://www.txla.org/groups/yart/yart.html
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From: ccbc-net-bounces at ccbc.ad.education.wisc.edu
[mailto:ccbc-net-bounces at ccbc.ad.education.wisc.edu] On Behalf Of
Kathleen T. Horning
Sent: Tuesday, May 20, 2008 11:16 AM
To: ccbc-net at ccbc.ad.education.wisc.edu
Subject: Re: [CCBC-Net] GLBTQ Literature
Thanks for clarifying the definitions, Julie. I will add that Q often
times stands for Questioning. There hasn't yet been a lot of literature
about teens questioning their sexuality, but there was a novel just
published that might qualify as such: "Debbie Harry Signs in French" by
Megan Brothers (Henry Holt). The young male protagonist in the story
loves dressing up as Debbie Harry, and would, in fact, like to BE Debbie
Harry, but he's also attracted to girls, so he's not sure what this
means. Since he's small and effeminate and wears eye make up to school,
he is frequently targeted by school bullies as gay. He feels most at
home with drag queens. He has to figure out who he is and where he fits
in.
Does anyone know of any other questioning teens in YA literature? My
sense is that there are a lot more of them in reality than there are in
fiction.
KT
Kathleen T. Horning
Director
Cooperative Children's Book Center
4290 Helen C. White Hall
600 N. Park St
Madison, WI 53706
Phone: 608-263-3721
FAX: 608-262-4933
horning at education.wisc.edu
http://www.education.wisc.edu/ccbc/
bear22 at mwt.net wrote:
> GLBTQ literature is literature written for/from the pov of a gay,
> Lesbian, bi-sexual, transgendered, or Queer indvidual. Transgendered
> is someone who feels that they are not the gender they were assigned
> at birth or raised as, but the opposite gender.
>
> I've been excited to see the growth of this area of publishing as
> well, although, at the moment I can't think of any recent titles off
> the top of my head, other than, Block's Weetzie Bat books and Nancy
> Garden's classic Annie on My Mind. What I really loved about both of
> these books was there open attitude towards love, rather than
> exploiting the subject. Both books really ask the question "Who do
> you love?" and explorers answers that are not typical. I also really
liked the anthology "Are you Blue?"
>
> I'm hesitant to put books like these on the shelves of my classroom
> library, most because we've had problems with books like "The Perks of
> Being a Wallflower" in the past.
>
> I hope this helps!
> Julie Kinney
>
>
>
>
>> Translate, please.
>>
>> Thank you.
>>
>> Big Grandma
>> On May 20, 2008, at 8:19 AM, Megan Schliesman wrote:
>>
>>
>>> Thank you for the posts on literature for children and teens about
>>> the Middle East. While we'd like to spend more time on this topic to
>>> encourage additional posts, but time being time, we need to turn our
>>> attention to the topic for the second part of May: GLBTQliiterature.
>>>
>>> Even more than literature about the Middle East, this area of
>>> publishing for youth has grown tremendously in recent years.* *We
>>> have been struck by the fact that since first talking about this
>>> topic on CCBC-Net, in June of 2004, publishing reflecting the
>>> experiences of lesbian, gay, bixesxual, transgendered, and
>>> questioning youth has grown exponentially, and in that growth we are
>>> seeing more new voices and greater diversity of experience.
>>> (Unfortunately, books for younger children reflecting the many
>>> families with gay or lesbian parents are still few and far
>>> between.)
>>>
>>> We invite you to share what you've observed about GLBTQ literature
>>> in recent years for the remainder of May.
>>>
>>> Megan
>>>
>>> --
>>> Megan Schliesman, Librarian
>>> Cooperative Children's Book Center
>>> School of Education, University of Wisconsin-Madison
>>>
>>> 608/262-9503
>>> schliesman at education.wisc.edu
>>>
>>> www.education.wisc.edu/ccbc/
>>>
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Received on Tue 20 May 2008 01:49:09 PM CDT
Date: Tue, 20 May 2008 11:49:09 -0700
The "questioning" titles that come to my mind are
Kerr, M.E. Hello, I Lied. Harper Collins, 1997. Gay teen, Lang, finds himself attracted to a girl during his seventeenth summer, and finds it very confusing. In the end, despite familial pressure, he concludes that he really is gay.
Ketchum, Liza. Blue Coyote. Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, 1997. As Alex searches for his missing friend, Tito, he questions his feelings for him, finally coming to accept that he is gay.
Matthews, Andrew. The Flip Side. London: Mammoth, 2001. New York: Delacorte, 2003. This title deals with a boy's feelings about cross-dressing which come up during a high school production of As You Like It.
Ryan, Sara. Empress of the World. Viking, 2001. Nic isn't sure if she's bisexual or lesbian, but feels accepting about either possibility.
Sinclair, April. Coffee Will Make You Black, Hyperion, 1994; and Ain't Gonna Be the Same Fool Twice, Hyperion, 1996. Bi-racial Stevie deals with issues of race and sexuality.
Sweeney,
<http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/491543.Aoibheann_Sweeney> Aoibheann. Among Other Things, I've Taken Up Smoking. Penguin, 2007. Both Miranda's and her father's sexuality come into question.
Wersba, Barbara. Tunes for a Small Harmonica, Harper & Row, 1976, in which the protagonist does some experimenting in order to discover whether or not she is a lesbian.
Nancy Silverrod, Librarian
San Francisco Public Library
100 Larkin St.
San Francisco, CA 94102-4733
415-557-4417
nsilverrod at sfpl.org
Books are the bees which carry the quickening pollen from one to another mind. -James Russell Lowell, poet, editor, and diplomat (1819-1891)
A closed mind is like a closed book: just a block of wood. -Chinese Proverb
-----Original Message----- From: ccbc-net-bounces at ccbc.education.wisc.edu
[mailto:ccbc-net-bounces at ccbc.education.wisc.edu] On Behalf Of Nigrelli, Joanna Sent: Tuesday, May 20, 2008 9:42 AM To: Kathleen T. Horning; ccbc-net at ccbc.ad.education.wisc.edu Subject: Re: [CCBC-Net] GLBTQ Literature
The book that came to my mind regarding questioning teens is The
Bermudez Triangle by Maureen Johnson. While one of the teens is a
lesbian, her romantic interest is not quite as sure and explores her
feelings towards the opposite sex.
It's not a solid questioning title, but there is that discussion.
Joanna Nigrelli
Teen Librarian - Austin Public Library
www.wiredforyouth.com
TLA YART Chair 2008-2009
http://www.txla.org/groups/yart/yart.html
-----Original Message-----
From: ccbc-net-bounces at ccbc.ad.education.wisc.edu
[mailto:ccbc-net-bounces at ccbc.ad.education.wisc.edu] On Behalf Of
Kathleen T. Horning
Sent: Tuesday, May 20, 2008 11:16 AM
To: ccbc-net at ccbc.ad.education.wisc.edu
Subject: Re: [CCBC-Net] GLBTQ Literature
Thanks for clarifying the definitions, Julie. I will add that Q often
times stands for Questioning. There hasn't yet been a lot of literature
about teens questioning their sexuality, but there was a novel just
published that might qualify as such: "Debbie Harry Signs in French" by
Megan Brothers (Henry Holt). The young male protagonist in the story
loves dressing up as Debbie Harry, and would, in fact, like to BE Debbie
Harry, but he's also attracted to girls, so he's not sure what this
means. Since he's small and effeminate and wears eye make up to school,
he is frequently targeted by school bullies as gay. He feels most at
home with drag queens. He has to figure out who he is and where he fits
in.
Does anyone know of any other questioning teens in YA literature? My
sense is that there are a lot more of them in reality than there are in
fiction.
KT
Kathleen T. Horning
Director
Cooperative Children's Book Center
4290 Helen C. White Hall
600 N. Park St
Madison, WI 53706
Phone: 608-263-3721
FAX: 608-262-4933
horning at education.wisc.edu
http://www.education.wisc.edu/ccbc/
bear22 at mwt.net wrote:
> GLBTQ literature is literature written for/from the pov of a gay,
> Lesbian, bi-sexual, transgendered, or Queer indvidual. Transgendered
> is someone who feels that they are not the gender they were assigned
> at birth or raised as, but the opposite gender.
>
> I've been excited to see the growth of this area of publishing as
> well, although, at the moment I can't think of any recent titles off
> the top of my head, other than, Block's Weetzie Bat books and Nancy
> Garden's classic Annie on My Mind. What I really loved about both of
> these books was there open attitude towards love, rather than
> exploiting the subject. Both books really ask the question "Who do
> you love?" and explorers answers that are not typical. I also really
liked the anthology "Are you Blue?"
>
> I'm hesitant to put books like these on the shelves of my classroom
> library, most because we've had problems with books like "The Perks of
> Being a Wallflower" in the past.
>
> I hope this helps!
> Julie Kinney
>
>
>
>
>> Translate, please.
>>
>> Thank you.
>>
>> Big Grandma
>> On May 20, 2008, at 8:19 AM, Megan Schliesman wrote:
>>
>>
>>> Thank you for the posts on literature for children and teens about
>>> the Middle East. While we'd like to spend more time on this topic to
>>> encourage additional posts, but time being time, we need to turn our
>>> attention to the topic for the second part of May: GLBTQliiterature.
>>>
>>> Even more than literature about the Middle East, this area of
>>> publishing for youth has grown tremendously in recent years.* *We
>>> have been struck by the fact that since first talking about this
>>> topic on CCBC-Net, in June of 2004, publishing reflecting the
>>> experiences of lesbian, gay, bixesxual, transgendered, and
>>> questioning youth has grown exponentially, and in that growth we are
>>> seeing more new voices and greater diversity of experience.
>>> (Unfortunately, books for younger children reflecting the many
>>> families with gay or lesbian parents are still few and far
>>> between.)
>>>
>>> We invite you to share what you've observed about GLBTQ literature
>>> in recent years for the remainder of May.
>>>
>>> Megan
>>>
>>> --
>>> Megan Schliesman, Librarian
>>> Cooperative Children's Book Center
>>> School of Education, University of Wisconsin-Madison
>>>
>>> 608/262-9503
>>> schliesman at education.wisc.edu
>>>
>>> www.education.wisc.edu/ccbc/
>>>
>>> _______________________________________________
>>> CCBC-Net mailing list
>>> CCBC-Net at ccbc.education.wisc.edu
>>> Visit this link to read archives or to unsubscribe...
>>> http://ccbc.education.wisc.edu/mailman/listinfo/ccbc-net
>>>
>>>
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