Weird Girl and What's His Name pride flag From Pat Shand (Destiny NY

From Pat Shand (Destiny NY

Like Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore's beautiful book about queerness and community and lack of and disappointment and marginalization and gentrification and sex

Venom & Vow is a lush and powerful YA novel about owning your power and becoming who you really are - no matter the cost

Sixteen-year-old and not-so-openly gay Simon Spier prefers to save his drama for the school musical

Longlisted for the National Book Award

Weird Girl and What's His Name pride flag From Pat Shand (Destiny NYIndieFab Young Adult Fiction Book of the Year 2015 Kirkus Reviews Best Teen Books 2015 In the podunk town of Hawthorne, North Carolina, seventeen year old geeks Lula and Rory share everything sci fi and fantasy fandom, Friday night binge watching of old X Files episodes, and that feeling that they don't quite fit in. Lula knows she and Rory have no secrets from each other; after all, he came out to her years ago, and she's shared with him her "sacred