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230 pp.
| Farrar
| June, 2007
|
TradeISBN 978-0-374-31759-1$18.00
(3)
YA
Short stories and historical summaries depict the evolution of gay rights and the rise of a GLBTQ community in America decade by decade, from secret love letters in the 1950s to a Gay Pride parade in the present. The earnest protagonists start to blend together, but the history is clearly and engagingly conveyed in a casual, welcoming voice.
Reviewer: Claire E. Gross
| Horn Book Magazine Issue:
September, 2007
32 pp.
| Farrar
| April, 2004
|
TradeISBN 0-374-35002-7$$16.00
(4)
K-3
Illustrated by
Sharon Wooding.
When Molly draws a picture of her Mommy and her Mama Lu, classmate Tommy objects: "That's not a family." Crisis, small-scaled, ensues, as does a comforting chat with the mommies, and a word on "all kinds of families" from the teacher. The story, illustrated with warm but generic colored-pencil drawings, is overly purposive and bland, but it is a straightforward address to the virtues of gay parenting.
Reviewer: Roger Sutton
| Horn Book Magazine Issue:
July, 2004
199 pp.
| Farrar
| September, 2002
|
TradeISBN 0-374-34943-6$$16.00
(3)
4-6
Although her father believes that girls are too weak for lobstering, Allie proves both her physical and emotional strength the summer she turns twelve. Set in an island community off the Maine coast, this moving novel explores the friendship that binds Allie, a working-class islander, with Melanie, a wealthy summer visitor whose family is being torn apart by the pregnancy of her unmarried older sister.
132 pp.
| Farrar
| September, 2000
|
TradeISBN 0-374-33273-8$$16.00
(2)
4-6
When Holly's family moves, she decides to remake her image--as well as that of her family--and tells her new seventh-grade classmates that her two mothers are actually sisters. Garden convincingly delineates Holly's ambivalence toward her parents, and the book's problem-novel aspects are well balanced by the more general theme of a kid's desire to fit in and be liked.
Reviewer: Roger Sutton
| Horn Book Magazine Issue:
September, 2000
247 pp.
| Farrar
| September, 1999
|
TradeISBN 0-374-38667-6$$17.00
(4)
YA
A religious conservative's election to the school board precipitates a controversy in a small-town high school over condom distribution, sex ed, and journalistic freedom in this impassioned if not always convincing novel. Seen through the perspective of the school paper's editor (a closeted "Maybe" lesbian), the story favors the liberal side while including some sympathetic, fairly nuanced conservative characters.