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From: Nancy Silverrod <nsilverrod>
Date: Wed, 21 May 2008 10:23:38 -0700
Cortez, Jaime. Sexile/Sexilio. Los Angeles: Institute for Gay Men's Health, c2004. Bi-lingual graphic memoir tells the story of a Cuban exile who first thinks he's gay, then realizes he's really transgendered. Some graphic content.
Down to the Bone by Mayra Lazara Dole (HarperTeen, 2008) is a new book featuring a Cuban-American teen who gets kicked out of school and home on the same day that her relationship with another girl is discovered. Dole addresses issues of class and culture in this great title.
Trujillo, Carla. What Night Brings. Willimantic, CT: Curbstone Press, 2003. What Marci Cruz prays to God, the Virgin Mary, and Baby Jesus to bring her each night is a change of gender-because she likes girls and the only way to marry one is to be a boy.
Velasquez, Gloria. Tommy Stands Alone. Houston, TX: Pinata Books, 1995. Hispanic teen Tommy faces ridicule and rejection from friends and family because he is gay, leading him to attempt suicide. A Chicana therapist helps him recover. On the melodramatic side.
Winnick, Judd. Pedro and Me: Friendship, Loss, and What I Learned. New York: Holt, 2000. Graphic novel about the friendship that develops between straight Winnick and gay roommate, Pedro Zamora, when they meet on MTV's The Real World.
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 Nancegar at aol.com Sent: Tuesday, May 20, 2008 6:26 PM To: ccbc-net at lists.education.wisc.edu Subject: Re: [CCBC-Net] GLBTQ lit
A P.S.:
Another little kid favorite--a new one: UNCLE BOBBY'S WEDDING by Sarah S.
Brannen (G.P Putnam's Sons, 2008)
In response to the comment about few books re bisexual teens-- very true: In
addition to a few stories and to M.E. Ker''s novel "HELLO," I LIED
(1997),
there's also Sara Ryan's EMPRESS OF THE WORLD (2001) and LUCKY by Eddie De
Oliveira (2004). There's a lack of books about transgender teens, too. Again
there are a few stories, including "Boi" by Julie Anne Peters in her collection
grl2grl (2007). Her National Book Award finalist novel LUNA (2004) is the first
YA novel with a transgender teen as a major character, and Ellen Wittlinger's
PARROTFISH (2007) is the first with a transgender main character. An
important secondary character in WHAT HAPPENED TO LANI GARVER? by Carol Plum-Ucci
(2002) might be transgender--but he also might be an angel, or gay.
There's also a need for more LGBT books about Hispanic characters and African
American characters. Alex Sanchez (The Rainbow Boys series, THE GOD BOX, SO
HARD TO SAY) and Jacqueline Woodson (THE DEAR ONE, FROM THE NOTEBOOKS OF
MELANIN SUN, THE HOUSE YOU PASS ON THE WAY) have given us some--thank you!--but it
would be wonderful to have more!
One more and then I'll shut up- HERO by Perry Moore (2007) is a real
departure and a wonderful one. It's a super-hero story and a mystery rolled into one
with a man character who's gay, but the story's about his being an apprentice
to a league of super-heros to which his father once belonged--and learning a
lot about life in general plus his own family--universals, again!
Nancy (Garden)
_________________________________________________________________
Please check out my website at www.nancygarden.com
And please have a look at HEAR US OUT: LESBIAN AND GAY STORIES OF STRUGGLE,
PROGRESS AND HOPE, 1950 TO THE PRESENT, and the new edition of ANNIE ON MY MIND
, in honor of its 25th anniversary!
<BR><BR><BR>**************<BR>Wondering what's for Dinner Tonight? Get new
twists on family favorites at AOL Food.<BR>
(http://food.aol.com/dinner-tonight?NCID=aolfod00030000000001)</HTML>
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Received on Wed 21 May 2008 12:23:38 PM CDT
Date: Wed, 21 May 2008 10:23:38 -0700
Cortez, Jaime. Sexile/Sexilio. Los Angeles: Institute for Gay Men's Health, c2004. Bi-lingual graphic memoir tells the story of a Cuban exile who first thinks he's gay, then realizes he's really transgendered. Some graphic content.
Down to the Bone by Mayra Lazara Dole (HarperTeen, 2008) is a new book featuring a Cuban-American teen who gets kicked out of school and home on the same day that her relationship with another girl is discovered. Dole addresses issues of class and culture in this great title.
Trujillo, Carla. What Night Brings. Willimantic, CT: Curbstone Press, 2003. What Marci Cruz prays to God, the Virgin Mary, and Baby Jesus to bring her each night is a change of gender-because she likes girls and the only way to marry one is to be a boy.
Velasquez, Gloria. Tommy Stands Alone. Houston, TX: Pinata Books, 1995. Hispanic teen Tommy faces ridicule and rejection from friends and family because he is gay, leading him to attempt suicide. A Chicana therapist helps him recover. On the melodramatic side.
Winnick, Judd. Pedro and Me: Friendship, Loss, and What I Learned. New York: Holt, 2000. Graphic novel about the friendship that develops between straight Winnick and gay roommate, Pedro Zamora, when they meet on MTV's The Real World.
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 Nancegar at aol.com Sent: Tuesday, May 20, 2008 6:26 PM To: ccbc-net at lists.education.wisc.edu Subject: Re: [CCBC-Net] GLBTQ lit
A P.S.:
Another little kid favorite--a new one: UNCLE BOBBY'S WEDDING by Sarah S.
Brannen (G.P Putnam's Sons, 2008)
In response to the comment about few books re bisexual teens-- very true: In
addition to a few stories and to M.E. Ker''s novel "HELLO," I LIED
(1997),
there's also Sara Ryan's EMPRESS OF THE WORLD (2001) and LUCKY by Eddie De
Oliveira (2004). There's a lack of books about transgender teens, too. Again
there are a few stories, including "Boi" by Julie Anne Peters in her collection
grl2grl (2007). Her National Book Award finalist novel LUNA (2004) is the first
YA novel with a transgender teen as a major character, and Ellen Wittlinger's
PARROTFISH (2007) is the first with a transgender main character. An
important secondary character in WHAT HAPPENED TO LANI GARVER? by Carol Plum-Ucci
(2002) might be transgender--but he also might be an angel, or gay.
There's also a need for more LGBT books about Hispanic characters and African
American characters. Alex Sanchez (The Rainbow Boys series, THE GOD BOX, SO
HARD TO SAY) and Jacqueline Woodson (THE DEAR ONE, FROM THE NOTEBOOKS OF
MELANIN SUN, THE HOUSE YOU PASS ON THE WAY) have given us some--thank you!--but it
would be wonderful to have more!
One more and then I'll shut up- HERO by Perry Moore (2007) is a real
departure and a wonderful one. It's a super-hero story and a mystery rolled into one
with a man character who's gay, but the story's about his being an apprentice
to a league of super-heros to which his father once belonged--and learning a
lot about life in general plus his own family--universals, again!
Nancy (Garden)
_________________________________________________________________
Please check out my website at www.nancygarden.com
And please have a look at HEAR US OUT: LESBIAN AND GAY STORIES OF STRUGGLE,
PROGRESS AND HOPE, 1950 TO THE PRESENT, and the new edition of ANNIE ON MY MIND
, in honor of its 25th anniversary!
<BR><BR><BR>**************<BR>Wondering what's for Dinner Tonight? Get new
twists on family favorites at AOL Food.<BR>
(http://food.aol.com/dinner-tonight?NCID=aolfod00030000000001)</HTML>
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