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English
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"At the penguin house at the Central Park Zoo, two penguins named Roy and Silo were a little bit different from the others. But their desire for a family was the same. And with the help of a kindly zookeeper, Roy and Silo got the chance to welcome a baby penguin of their very own."--
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2012
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
310 p. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
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Twelve-year-old Fern feels invisible in her family, where grumpy eighteen-year-old Sarah is working at the family restaurant, fourteen-year-old Holden is struggling with school bullies and his emerging homosexuality, and adorable, three-year-old Charlie is always the center of attention, and when tragedy strikes, the fragile bond holding the family together is stretched almost to the breaking point.
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Series
Aristotle and Dante volume 1
Language
English
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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.
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Griffin
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Physical Desc
250 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Mark and Kate sit next to each other in school but are barely acquainted until they meet at a San Francisco club during Pride Week and connect over each one's forbidden love.
Author
Publisher
Katherine Tegen Books, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2022]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
225 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
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"A research-based exploration of queer behavior in different animal species is interspersed with personal anecdotes and interviews with scientists"--
Author
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2017]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
272 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
Language
English
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Publisher Annotation: World history has been made by countless lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer individuals?and you?ve never heard of many of them. Queer author and activist Sarah Prager delves deep into the lives of 23 people who fought, created, and loved on their own terms. From high-profile figures like Abraham Lincoln and Eleanor Roosevelt to the trailblazing gender-ambiguous Queen of Sweden and a bisexual blues singer who didn?t...
Author
Publisher
New Vessel Press
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
153 pages ; 20 cm
Language
English
Description
"A letter has beckoned to Raimundo since he received it over fifty years ago from his youthful passion, handsome Cicero. But having grown up in an impoverished area of Brazil where the demands of manual labor thwarted his becoming literate, Raimundo has long been unable to read. As young men, he and Cicero fell in love, only to have Raimundo's father brutally beat his son when he discovered their affair. Even after Raimundo succeeds in making a life...
11) King & King
Author
Publisher
Tricycle Press
Pub. Date
[2002], c2000
Physical Desc
[32] p. : col. ill. ; 26 cm.
Language
English
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When the queen insists that the prince get married and take over as king, the search for a suitable mate does not turn out as expected.
Author
Publisher
Little Bee Books
Pub. Date
[2020]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 29 cm
Language
English
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Chloë is jealous and sad when her favorite uncle announces that he will be getting married, but as she gets to know Jamie better and becomes involved in planning the wedding, she discovers that she will always be special to Uncle Bobby--and to Uncle Jamie, too.
13) Angel
Publisher
Water Bearer Films
Pub. Date
2000
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (120 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Greek
Description
Angel, a young handsome Athenian attempts to escape his abusive alcoholic father and the grinding poverty of his daily life by falling in love with a macho sailor. But survival on the margins proves risky and difficult so Angel's lover persuades him to work the streets as a transvestite prostitute.
14) Okay, Cupid
Author
Publisher
Push, an imprint of Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2024.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
311 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
As a cupid Jude's job is to bring couples together, and their new assignment involves a couple of teenagers--except Jude's attraction to a certain human boy keeps getting in the way, and threatening their career.
16) Ship it
Author
Publisher
Freeform Books
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
375 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Told from two viewpoints, Forest, a television actor who needs more fans, and Claire, a teen fan fiction blogger, are teamed to raise his profile despite their disagreement over whether his character is gay.
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
c2004
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
268 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Fifteen-year-old Ruby Milliken leaves her best friend, her boyfriend, her aunt, and her mother's grave in Boston and reluctantly flies to Los Angeles to live with her father, a famous movie star who divorced her mother before Ruby was born.
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2006
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 135 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Two cowboys (Heath Ledger & Jake Gyllenhaal) in a small country town grow together and develop a special relationship. Love, drama, and controversy is all here.
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
327 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
While searching the woods that used to be their personal sanctuary, twelve-year-old Aubrey recalls the events and incidents preceding their best friend's disappearance and quietly questions their own gender identity.
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