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1) Angels in America : Millennium approaches

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2) Aristotle and Dante discover the secrets of the universe (Colorado State Library Book Club Collection)

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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.

3) Becoming Nicole: the Transformation of an American family

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Nutt, Amy Ellis

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"The inspiring true story of a transgender girl, her identical twin brother, and an ordinary American family's extraordinary journey to understand, nurture, and celebrate the uniqueness in us all, from the Pulitzer Prize-winning science reporter for The Washington Post When Wayne and Kelly Maines adopted identical twin boys, they thought their lives were complete. But it wasn't long before they noticed a marked difference between Jonas and his...

4) Draw the line

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Linn, Laurent

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"A teen boy survives a hate crime against another gay student through his art"-- Adrian Piper may be a talented artist, a sci-fi geek, and gay, but at his Texas high school those traits would only bring him the worst kind of attention. He is only free to express himself is at his drawing table, crafting a secret world through his own Renaissance-art-inspired superhero, Graphite. After a hate crime occurs Adrian must discover his own power, decide...

5) From the inside out: radical gender transformation, FTM and beyond

6) The great American whatever

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Federle, Tim

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"Teenaged Quinn, an aspiring screenwriter, copes with his sister's death while his best friend forces him back out into the world to face his reality"--

7) I am J

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Beam, Cris

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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.

8) I'll give you the sun

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Nelson, Jandy

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Brilliance Audio on compact disc

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Book, CD, Local Library Checkout Only

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Twins Jude and Noah were best friends, until a tragic event during their adolescence drove them apart. Noah narrates the years before their separation, and Jude narrates their later years, allowing readers to witness the complete story of their rift and eventual reconnection.

9) Just add hormones: an insider's guide to the transsexual experience

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Kailey, Matt

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10) Luna: a novel

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Peters, Julie Anne

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Fifteen-year-old Regan's life, which has always revolved around keeping her older brother Liam's transsexuality a secret, changes when Liam decides to start the process of "transitioning" by first telling his family and friends that he is a girl who was born in a boy's body.

11) The miseducation of Cameron Post

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Danforth, Emily M

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In the early 1990s, when gay teenager Cameron Post rebels against her conservative Montana ranch town and her family decides she needs to change her ways, she is sent to a gay conversion therapy center.

12) Neil Patrick Harris: choose your own autobiography

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Harris, Neil Patrick

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Tired of memoirs that only tell you what really happened? Sick of deeply personal accounts written in the first person? Seeking an exciting, interactive read that puts the "u" back in aUtobiography? Then look no further than Neil Patrick Harris: Choose Your Own Autobiography! In this revolutionary, Joycean experiment in light celebrity narrative, actor/personality/carbon-based-life-form Neil Patrick Harris lets you, the reader, live his life. You...

13) Pedro and me: friendship, loss, and what I learned

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Winick, Judd

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In this memoir in graphic novel form, the author relates his friendship with an HIV-positive AIDS activist while they were roommates during the filming of the MTV show "Real World: San Francisco". As a speaker and educator, a guest on many talk shows (including Oprah), and when his tragic death received front-page coverage in the press, Pedro taught a generation that AIDS was not a punishment for moral defects or a mere killer that reduced humans...

14) The perks of being a wallflower

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Chbosky, Stephen

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A haunting coming of age novel told in a series of letters to an unknown correspondent reveals the life of Charlie, a freshman in high school who is a wallflower, shy and introspective, and very intelligent, it's a story of what it's like to grow up in high school, tracing a course through uncharted territory in the world of first dates, family dramas and new friends.

15) Simon vs. the homo sapiens agenda

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Sixteen-year-old Simon Spier quietly enjoys flirtatious emails between himself and a guy calling himself "Blue," hoping it will lead to a relationship. However, the emails fall into the wrong hands and Simon is blackmailed. Now Simon must explore his feelings and decide if being outed to the rest of the high school is such a bad thing.

16) Skim

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Tamaki, Mariko

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Book, Graphic Novel

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"Skim" is Kimberly Keiko Cameron, a not-slim, would-be Wiccan goth who goes to a private girls' school in the early '90s. When her classmate Katie Matthews is dumped by her boyfriend, who then kills himself, the entire school goes into mourning overdrive. Suicide, depression, love, homosexuality, crushes, cliques of popular, manipulative peers-- the whole gamut of teen life is explored in this poignant glimpse into the heartache of being 16.

17) Some assembly required: the not-so-secret life of a transgender teen

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Andrews, Arin

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"Seventeen-year-old Arin Andrews shares all the hilarious, painful, and poignant details of undergoing gender reassignment as a high school student in this winning teen memoir"--

18) This is where it ends

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Nijkamp, Marieke

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Brilliance Audio on compact disc

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Minutes after the principal of Opportunity High School in Alabama finishes her speech welcoming the student body to a new semester, they discover that the auditorium doors will not open and someone starts shooting as four teens, each with a personal reason to fear the shooter, tells the tale from separate perspectives.

19) Unbecoming

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Downham, Jenny

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Life has just become very complicated for seventeen-year-old Katie; her father walked out a year ago, her mother is stressed out, her brother is a "special needs" teenager, and she is caring for the maternal grandmother she has never met, who is suffering from Alzheimer's--and Katie has a secret of her own that she cannot reveal.

20) We are the ants

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Hutchinson, Shaun David

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Abducted by aliens periodically throughout his youth, Henry Denton is informed by his erstwhile captors that they will end the world in 144 days unless he stops them by deciding that humanity is worth saving.