Bill Konigsberg
1) The bridge
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
388 pages ; 20 cm
Language
English
Description
Aaron is a gay misfit struggling with depression and loneliness. Tillie isn't sure what her problem is, only that she will never be good enough. They arrive at the George Washington Bridge at the same time. There are four things that could happen: Aaron jumps and Tillie doesn't. Tillie jumps and Aaron doesn't. They both jump. Neither of them jumps. Or maybe all four things happen...
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
283 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
It's 1987 in New York City, and Micah is at a dance club, trying to pretend he's more out and outgoing than he really is. C.J. isn't just out--he's complete out there, and Micah can't help but be both attracted to and afraid of someone who travels so loudly and proudly through the night. A connection occurs. Is it friendship? Romance? Is C.J. the one with all the answers... or does Micah bring more to the relationship that it first seems? As their...
3) Honestly Ben
Author
Series
Publisher
Arthur A. Levine Books, an imprint of Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
First edition.
Lexile measure
HL 660L
Physical Desc
326 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Ben Carver returns for the spring semester at the exclusive Natick School in Massachusetts determined to put his relationship with Rafe Goldberg behind him and concentrate on his grades and the award that will mean a full scholarship--but Rafe is still there, there is a girl named Hannah whom he meets in the library, and behind it all is his relationship with his distant, but demanding father.
Author
Publisher
Arthur A. Levine Books, an imprint of Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
338 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"It is summer in Phoenix, and seventeen-year-old Maximo offers to help Jordan, a fellow student in high school, with the food truck that belonged to Jordan's deceased father, and which may be the only thing standing between homelessness for Jordan and his mom; the boys are strongly attracted to each other, but as their romance develops, it is threatened by the secrets they are hiding--and by the racism and homophobia of those around them."--
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
[2016]
Lexile measure
HL 670L
Physical Desc
325 pages; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"Carson Smith isn't thrilled to be spending the summer with her estranged dad in Billings, Montana. But then he beets Aisha Stinson, the most beautiful girl he's ever seen. And the smartest. And the funniest. They connect like he never has with anyone...Also she's a lesbian. So there's that. Carson's dad is still bitter about the disappearance of his dad more than thirty years earlier. When Carson and Aisha discover a box full of cards from his grandfather,...
Publisher
Delacorte Press, an imprint of Random House Children's Books
Pub. Date
[2020]
Edition
First edition.
Lexile measure
HL 730L
Physical Desc
268 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
A collection of original contemporary love stories set during life in lockdown by some of today's most popular YA authors.
A collection of teenage love stories set during life in lockdown during the COVID-19 epidemic. There's flirting and romance through window signs and over Skype and Zoom. There's a determined girl with a mask-making business, and two boys who meet through socially distant dog-walks. It's about finding love in unexpected place...