The Prince and the Dressmaker

Wang, J. (2018). The prince and the dressmaker. New York, NY: First Second. ISBN 978-1-62672-363-4; paperback; $16.99. Prince Sebastian has a secret: he likes to wear dresses. Only two people know that the stunning aristocrat Lady Crystallia, whose fashion is the talk of Paris, is also a teenaged prince who is supposed to be finding …

Not Your Mother’s Meatloaf: A Sex Education Comic Book

Miller, S., & Bley, L., eds. (2013). Not your mother’s meatloaf: A sex education comic book. Berkeley, CA: Soft Skull Press. ISBN 978-1-59376-517-0; paperback; $15.95. Just like bodies, the comics in Not Your Mother’s Meatloaf come in all shapes and sizes. This compilation of short zines tells the stories of its many contributing authors – …

Upstate

Buckhanon, K. (2005). Upstate. New York: St. Martin’s Press. ISBN 0-312-33269-6; paperback; $11.95. Imprisoned for the murder of his father, 17-year-old Antonio’s only connection to the outside world is his girlfriend, Natasha. Antonio and Natasha are madly in love with each other, so when Antonio receives a sentence of ten years, they are devastated – …

Two-Way Street

Barnholdt, L. (2007). Two-way street. New York: Simon Pulse. ISBN 978-1-4169-1318-4; paperback; $8.99. Courtney doesn’t want to admit it, but she’s still kind of in love with her ex, Jordan, who dumped her for some girl he met online. To make matters worse, she has to spend 30 agonizing hours in the car with him, …

Tessa Masterson Will Go to Prom

Franklin, E., & Halpin, B. (2012). Tessa Masterson will go to prom. New York: Walker & Company. ISBN 978-0-8027-2345-1; hard cover; $16.99. Tessa Masterson Will Go to Prom is a story about the courage it takes to come out as lesbian in a small Indiana town, but on a more basic level it’s a book …

Hate List

Brown, J. (2009). Hate list. New York: Little, Brown and Company. ISBN 978-0-316-04145-4; paperback; $11.00. “People do it all the time--assume that they "know" what's going on in someone else's head. That's impossible. And to think it's possible is a mistake. A really big mistake. A life-ruining one if you're not careful.” – Hate List, …

A Wish After Midnight

Elliott, Z. (2008). A wish after midnight. Las Vegas, NV: Amazon Publishing. ISBN 978-0-98255-505-7; paperback; $8.49. Growing up in Brooklyn, 15-year-old Genna dreams of getting her family out of their two-bedroom apartment so that her baby brother Tyjuan can grow up in a neighborhood where drug deals don’t happen outside their front door every day. …

Weetzie Bat

Block, F. L. (1999). Weetzie bat (10th anniversary ed.). New York, NY: Harper Collins. ISBN 0-06-440818-3; paperback; $7.95. Weetzie Bat and her best friend Dirk are just normal teenagers living under the bright lights of L.A., until the day that Grandma Fifi gifts Weetzie a golden lamp, out of which appears – of all things …