People pity me, but mostly they feel envy. I have all the luxury and freedom a girl my age could want. Something is happening to Charlotte Emerson. Like the fires that are ravaging the hills of Los Angeles, it consumes her from the inside out. But whether it is her eternal loneliness, the memory of her brother, the return of her first love, or the brooding, magnetic Jared-she cannot say. What if it's something more .

Pretty Dead

A girl thought to be a boy steals her sister's skirt, while a boy thought to be a girl refuses to wear a cornflower blue dress. One boy's love of a soldier leads to the death of a stranger. The present takes a bittersweet journey into the past when a man revisits the summer school where he had "an accidental romance." And a forgotten mother writes a poignant letter to the teenage daughter she hasn't seen for fourteen years. Poised between the past and the future are the stories of now. In nontraditional narratives, short stories, and brief graphics, tales of anticipation and regret, eagerness and confusion present distinctively modern views of love, sexuality, and gender identification. Together, they reflect the vibrant possibilities available for young people learning to love others-and themselves-in today's multifaceted and quickly changing world.

How Beautiful the Ordinary - Twelve Stories of Identity

Dirk MacDonald, a sixteen-year-old boy living in Los Angeles, comes to terms with being gay after he receives surreal storytelling visitations from his dead father and great-grandmother.

Baby Be-Bop

À Los Angeles, il y a quelque part une fille qui s'appelle La et dont la mère vient de se tuer dans un hôpital. Lorsqu'elle rentre de l'école, La a de longues conversations avec une petite créature qui vit dans son armoire. Cette créature s'appelle Bleu. Elle lui parle de sa mère et va, d'une certaine manière, lui sauver la vie. À Manhattan vit une autre fille, Tuck, qui a deux mères, deux mères très cool, un peu trop peut-être. Sans rien leur dire, Tuck part à la recherche de son père. Il y a aussi Rave, qui n'a pas dix-sept ans et qui arrive le matin au lycée en limousine. Elle collectionne les bonnes notes, passe ses nuits avec des rock stars, se drogue, et personne, pas même le garçon qui l'aime, ne pourra l'empêcher de mourir. Elles sont encore adolescentes, elles vivent dans les grandes villes américaines ou ailleurs, peut-être en face de chez vous. Souvent, il y a quelque chose de cassé en elles, parfois irrémédiablement. Elles n'ont pas de parents, ou c'est tout comme. Ils sont absents de leur monde. C'est une séparation quasi normale, qui s'est faite sans heurts. Les sociologues diraient sans doute qu'elles n'ont pas de repères et ils auraient tort. Avec davantage de conviction que les adultes, elles croient en l'amour, en l'amitié, en l'art et en une certaine idée d'elles-mêmes. Les petites déesses n'est pas un livre provocateur. Si elles sont évoquées, la drogue, la sexualité n'en sont pas le sujet. Les hroïnes de ce livre mènent tou-tes une existence décalée, et pourtant, elles ressemblent à toutes les filles de la terre. Pour faire leur portrait, Francesca Lia Block a inventé une sorte d'hyperréalisme poétique. Sa compréhension intime, universelle, des êtres rappelle celle de Patricia McLachlan.

Les Petites Déesses

In a little house from another time, with lace curtains in every window and paintings hung in gold doily frames, Wildflower, Rockstar, and Miss Selene live a warm and cozy life. They wear fancy dresses, bake play-dough cakes, and spend their days enjoying one another's company. For the three dolls, life is small but good. But life is not good for Madison Blackberry, the owner of the dollhouse. Her grandmother pays more attention to the dolls than to her. The dolls have one another, but she is lonely in her big, empty apartment. Then one day, as things always do-even for dolls-everything changes. This beautiful story from the acclaimed team of Francesca Lia Block, author of such novels as Weetzie Bat, and Barbara McClintock, author and illustrator of many picture books, including Adèle & Simon, brings to life the power of love, family, and friendship.

House of Dolls

With their parents away, four young people form a rock band that becomes wildly popular, carrying them into a "freer" life than they can cope with.

Cherokee Bat and the Goat Guys

When Bee woke up, there was a girl standing in her room. "You are me, " the girl said. Then she was gone. I am a thirteen-year-old double Gemini. I get bad grades, write poetry with my left hand, dance in my room, surf the net. I Google images of the tattoos my mom won't let me get.

The Waters & the Wild

When you were a baby I sat very still to hold you. I could see the veins through your skin like a map to inside you. I stopped breathing so you wouldn't ... You were just a boy on a bed in a room, like a kaleidoscope is a tube full of bits of broken glass. But the way I saw you was pieces refracting the light, shifting into an infinite universe of flowers and rainbows and insects and planets, magical dividing cells, pictures no one else knew ... Your whole life you can be told something is wrong and so you believe it.

Pretty Dead

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