The Letter Q: Queer Writers' Notes to Their Younger Selves
Title | The Letter Q: Queer Writers' Notes to Their Younger Selves PDF eBook |
Author | James Lecesne |
Publisher | Scholastic Inc. |
Total Pages | 372 |
Release | 2012-08-01 |
Genre | Young Adult Nonfiction |
ISBN | 0545502209 |
Life-saving letters from a glittering wishlist of top authors. If you received a letter from your older self, what do you think it would say? What do you wish it would say?That the boy you were crushing on in History turns out to be gay too, and that you become boyfriends in college? That the bully who is making your life miserable will one day become so insignificant that you won't remember his name until he shows up at your book signing?In this anthology, sixty-three award-winning authors such as Michael Cunningham, Amy Bloom, Jacqueline Woodson, Gregory Maguire, David Levithan, and Armistead Maupin make imaginative journeys into their pasts, telling their younger selves what they would have liked to know then about their lives as Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, or Transgendered people. Through stories, in pictures, with bracing honesty, these are words of love and understanding, reasons to hold on for the better future ahead. They will tell you things about your favorite authors that you never knew before. And they will tell you about yourself.
The Letter Q
Title | The Letter Q PDF eBook |
Author | Sarah Moon |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 0 |
Release | 2012 |
Genre | Adolescence |
ISBN | 9780545399333 |
Collects letters from such famous contributors as Brian Selznick, Michael Cunningham, and Amy Bloom to offer hope and support in the face of prejudice.
The Letter Q
Title | The Letter Q PDF eBook |
Author | Scholastic, Incorporated |
Publisher | Arthur A. Levine Books |
Total Pages | 288 |
Release | 2014-06-13 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9781484426937 |
A collection of letters from sixty-four gay authors and illustrators writing to their younger selves.
Dear Me
Title | Dear Me PDF eBook |
Author | Joseph Galliano |
Publisher | Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | 160 |
Release | 2011-10-25 |
Genre | Self-Help |
ISBN | 1451649681 |
These nuggets of wisdom are offered by an Academy Award–nominated actor (James Woods), a popular comedian (Aasif Mandvi), and a world-famous novelist (Jodi Picoult) to their sixteen-year-old selves. No matter how accomplished and confident they seem today, at sixteen, they were like the rest of us—often unsure, frequently confused, and usually in need of a little reassurance. In Dear Me, 75 celebrities, writers, musicians, athletes, and actors have written letters to their younger selves that give words of comfort, warning, humor, and advice. These letters present intimate, moving, and witty insights into some of the world’s most intriguing and admired individuals. By turns funny, surprising, raw, and uplifting, this singular collection captures the universal conditions that are youth, life, and growing up.
Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe
Title | Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe PDF eBook |
Author | Benjamin Alire Sáenz |
Publisher | Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | 368 |
Release | 2012-02-21 |
Genre | Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | 1442408928 |
Fifteen-year-old Ari Mendoza is an angry loner with a brother in prison, but when he meets Dante and they become friends, Ari starts to ask questions about himself, his parents, and his family that he has never asked before.
The Vast Fields of Ordinary
Title | The Vast Fields of Ordinary PDF eBook |
Author | Nick Burd |
Publisher | Penguin |
Total Pages | 322 |
Release | 2009 |
Genre | Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | 9780803733404 |
The summer after graduating from an Iowa high school, eighteen-year-old Dade Hamilton watches his parents' marriage disintegrate, ends his long-term, secret relationship, comes out of the closet, and savors first love.
Sprout
Title | Sprout PDF eBook |
Author | Dale Peck |
Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing USA |
Total Pages | 281 |
Release | 2009-06-01 |
Genre | Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | 1599901609 |
Moving from Long Island to Kansas after his mother dies, a teenager nicknamed Sprout deals with his father's drinking, his own sexuality, and a teacher who is determined to turn him into a winning essay writer.