Julie Anne Peters, Author . Little, Brown $16.95 (256p) ISBN 978-0-316-70275-1
When popular high school senior Holland discovers that "the man of her dreams is a girl," she faces homophobia at school and, most painfully, at home. Peters (Define "Normal") raises important points about the ramifications of coming
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Julie Anne Peters, Author . Little, Brown $16.95 (248p) ISBN 978-0-316-73369-4
Peters's (Define "Normal"
) latest novel sensitively portrays the life of a transgender teen through the eyes of a sympathetic younger sister. Regan has always supported her brother and kept his secret, but when Liam decides to "trans
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Julie Anne Peters, Author . Little, Brown/Tingley $16.99 (290p) ISBN 978-0-316-15881-7
Many of the themes that Peters mined in Luna
appear in this novel, but are more smoothly integrated, making this a more accessible read. For one thing, Mike (born Mary-Elizabeth), who narrates the novel, does not lead a double life, as Luna did....
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Julie Anne Peters, Author . Little, Brown/Tingley $16.99 (232p) ISBN 978-0-316-73906-1
Nick, 14, tells his story in flashbacks, revealing what it was like growing up with his two moms—and watching their relationship fall apart. Peters's (Luna
) novel is much more than a story about a gay family. While Nick and his mothers do
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Julie Anne Peters, Author . Little, Brown/Tingley $11.99 (151p) ISBN 978-0-316-01343-7
Peters's (Luna
) short stories focus mostly on young lesbians but also take in teens struggling with other gender and sexuality issues. Their conflicts range from commonplace (Mariah tries to summon the nerve to attend a Gay/Straight Alliance...
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Julie Anne Peters, Author . Disney-Hyperion $16.99 (200p) ISBN 978-1-4231-1618-9
After a few suicide attempts, the most recent of which left her unable to speak, teenage narrator Daelyn joins a Web site called Through-the-Light, which gives her 23 days to prepare for death. Although rules state that “[p]articipants may not
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Julie Anne Peters, Author Little, Brown Young Readers $16.95 (208p) ISBN 978-0-316-70631-5
In this middle-school drama, two seeming opposites become friends and discover they are not such opposites after all. Peters (How Do You Spell G-E-E-K?) does little to update this well-trod theme, and while there are touching moments in her book, it'
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Julie Anne Peters, Author Little Brown and Company $12.45 (139p) ISBN 978-0-316-70266-9
Conflicts multiply as three eighth-grade classmates vie to make it to the Colorado state spelling bee. Will the winner be Kimberly with the pushy parents and brilliant spelling ability? Or Ann, whose secure world has been shaken by her parents'...
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Julie Anne Peters, Author Megan Tingley Books $14.7 (200p) ISBN 978-0-316-70287-4
In this third book in the series, A Snitch in the Snob Squad by Julie Anne Peters, several thefts at school have 12-year-old Jenny and the other members of the Snob Squad scrambling to discover who's behind them. Their friend Max is a prime suspect,
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Julie Anne Peters. Little, Brown/Tingley, $17.99 (288p) ISBN 978-0-316-07874-0
When 17-year-old Alyssa's homophobic father kicks her out, she goes to live with the mother she barely knows, a stripper who her father suspects to be a "high-class hooker." But Alyssa has her own secrets, including what exactly happened with her ex-
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Julie Anne Peters. Little, Brown, $17.99 (352p) ISBN 978-0-316-13158-2
When Azure’s principal asks her to join the senior prom planning committee to increase its inclusivity, the gay student recruits her bisexual friend Luke and her crush Radhika for help. But their plans for a drag show and a tattoo and piercing...
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Julie Anne Peters. Little, Brown, $18 (256p) ISBN 978-0-316-23497-9
After Alix's track star girlfriend, Swanee, drops dead of sudden cardiac arrest, the high school junior is devastated. When a mysterious girl keeps texting Swanee's phone, unaware she has died, Alix learns she was not the only girlfriend Swanee left
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Julie Anne Peters. Knopf, $16.99 (304p) ISBN 978-0-375-85209-1
Reliable Johanna secretly fantasizes about romantic interludes with wild girl Reeve, but it's only when she agrees to tutor Robbie, Reeve's autistic twin brother, that she actually begins to understand just how troubled her anger-prone crush's life...
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