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Tormented by his religious family and the broader conservative community of Pawley's Island, South Carolina, fourteen-year-old Josh struggles with the pressure to conform to their puritanical standards. As he embarks upon his high school years, Josh meets a supportive cast of eccentric small-town characters, falls in love with his classmate, becomes obsessed with David Bowie, and fumbles in his attempts to make his own thongs. But it's when his elderly neighbor gives him a copy of Walt Whitman's "Song of Myself" that he begins to understand his own sexuality.

A wistful coming-of-age story with a haunting twist about four friends who spend their summer learning to become invisible—but disappearing comes at a cost. Four girls. Four girls skating home, both sides of the road, fearless. Four girls at the mouth of an infinite ocean, sugared and salted...

Fat girls and boys and nonbinary teens are: friends who lift each other up, heroes who rescue themselves, big bodies in space, intellects taking up space and bodies looking and feeling beautiful. They express themselves through fashion, sports and other physical pursuits, through food, and music, and art. They are flirting and falling in love. They are loving to themselves and one another.

A Finalist for the National Book Award When Ada leaves home for her freshman year at a Historically Black College, it’s the first time she’s ever been so far from her family—and the first time that she’s been able to make her own choices and to seek her place in this new world. As she...

Cuando Chloe Miller recibió su carta de no admisión, la arrugó con rabia. Oliver Miller, su mellizo, había obtenido la plaza que codiciaban los dos. Ella estaba convencida de que el único mérito de su hermano era su entrepierna. El patriarcado la había eliminado, y estaba dispuesta a demostrar que se equivocaban. Lo único que necesitaba era convencer a Oliver para intercambiar sus papeles durante el máster que iban a cursar en España, puesto que solo quedaba una plaza para un estudiante internacional, e iba a ser suya a toda costa.