G.L.O.W. BOOKS
G.L.O.W members: we hope you find books in the library that you can relate to and show your perspective. Please let us know of any books you think we should have in our collection by completing the recommendation form below. We have created a list of books based on a list your group shared with us last year. You can find this list on the resources page of the library catalog. Below you will find some highlights of recent additions to the library.
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If I Was Your Girl by by Meredith Russo
Written by transgender author about a transgender teen. Amanda Hardy only wants to fit in at her new school, but she is keeping a big secret, so when she falls for Grant, guarded Amanda finds herself yearning to share with him everything about herself, including her previous life as Andrew.
The Great American Whatever by Tim Federle
Quinn Roberts, who has stopped going to school after his sister died, is pushed out of his house and back into life by his best friend. He is dragged to a college party where he meets a boy and begins to see a future again.
The Porcupine of Truth by Bill Konigsberg
Seventeen-year-old Carson Speier is bored of Billings, Montana, and resentful that he has to help his mother take care of his father, a dying alcoholic whom he has not seen in fourteen years--but then he meets Aisha, a beautiful African American girl who has run away from her own difficult family, and together they embark on a journey of discovery that may help them both come to terms with their lives.
The Art of Being Normal by Lisa Williamson
David Piper, always an outsider, forms an unlikely friendship with Leo Denton who, from the first day at his new school wants only to be invisible, but when David's deepest secret gets out, that he wants to be a girl, things get very messy for both of them.
Highly Illogical Behavior by John Corey Whaley
Agoraphobic sixteen-year-old Solomon has not left his house in three years, but Lisa is determined to change that--and to write a scholarship-winning essay based on the results.
Some assembly required : the not-so-secret life of a transgender teen
Seventeen-year-old Arin Andrews shares all the hilarious, painful, and poignant details of undergoing gender reassignment as a high school student in this teen memoir.
Lisa B. Tuttle Library, Burr and Burton Academy
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Kelly Gardner, Assistant Library Media Specialist
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Phone: (802) 549-8122