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    Hallo Stups,


    Du hattest nicht darauf geantwortet, ob die Bücher auch auf Englisch sein können, da gäbe es - natürlich gerade im Hinblick auf amerikanische Highschools ;-) - etwas mehr Auswahl.


    Und wollt Ihr unbedingt was mit Happy-End-Garantie? :gruebel


    Ich persönlich finde das ja nicht so spannend, ich liste mal ein paar Bücher auf, Happy-End-Garantie ist aber nicht gewährleistet. Falls Dir was davon zusagt, kannst Du mich ja fragen. ;-)


    "Rollenspiele" spielt in Schweden, das kann ich Dir sehr empfehlen!


    Wie von uert bereits erwähnt, hier hatte ich schon einige Bücher vorgestellt.

    "The Year of Ice" und "The World of Normal Boys" sind eigentlich keine Jugendbücher, aber sehr gute Bücher mit Teenagern als Protagonisten.



    "The Year of Ice" von Brian Malloy


    For Kevin Doyle in working-class northeast Minneapolis, 1978, his year of transition from high school to work and college, is a bear. Around the second anniversary of his mother's death, his volatile Aunt Nora blurts out that her sister's car crash was a suicide, done in despair because Kevin's father was going to run off with his other woman. Kevin already doesn't like his taciturn, binge-drinking dad, and now he doesn't know how he feels about his mom. Meanwhile, the tall, handsome, C student spends too much time at school asserting alpha-male status and dodging girls because he knows he's gay. Unfortunately, things go downhill for Kevin from there, often hilariously and painfully at the same time. Almost too much happens in Malloy's first novel, but he has Kevin's voice as narrator down cold. In Kevin, Malloy gives us a normally self-centered, moody teenager who is smarter than he knows and more self-possessed than nearly anyone else around him. Furthermore, if he goes through hell, he also gets some breaks, including glimpses of real gay life right in Minneapolis and enough trust from and insight into his friends to see that they are dealing with "major shit," too. More a coming-toward-coming-out than a coming-out story, this book's a beauty, whatever you call it.



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    The World of Normal Boys" von K. M. Soehnlein


    Robin McKenzie is just starting high school and ready for change, ready to appear more "cool," make new friendships, and fit in more. But after his younger brother, Jackson, injures himself in an accidental and dangerous fall, Robin's life will never be the same. As his parents' fighting escalates under the strain and his family begins to fall apart, Robin adapts to the strangeness of high school. Central in his anxieties is his sexual attraction to other boys. His parents are no help, and to add to his confusion, Robin's friends are just as lost as he is: one minute he and Todd (the cute boy next door) are fooling around, and the next Todd refers to homosexuals as queers and fags. Feeling scared and isolated, Robin starts experimenting with drugs, cuts class, and thinks of boys instead of schoolwork. Full of tension and suspense, Soehnlein's well-paced debut novel is a fresh look at one boy's sexual awakening in the 1970s and his journey to find a place where he can fit in.



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    "Saints of Augustine" von P. E. Ryan


    Charlie and Sam were best friends, until Sam stopped speaking to Charlie. In his first book for young people, Ryan (Send Me, 2006) slowly reveals the cause of the rift in chapters that alternate between the two boys' viewpoints. Over a Florida summer, each boy wrestles alone with problems. Following his mother's death, Charlie worries about his shut-in dad, who drinks too much. He escapes by smoking pot, a habit that's put him into deep debt to a threatening dealer. Sam's dad lives with his male lover, and Sam, who has been hiding his own male attractions, worries if he is gay, too. When each boy reaches a crisis point, he finally turns to the other. In a less-gifted author's hands, this novel could have felt crowded. But Ryan offers complex views of family lives, realistic language (including some anti-gay slurs), and convincing characters in Sam and Charlie. Sam's new romance with another guy is a buoyant subplot; just as welcome is the sensitive story of two teen boys forging a close, honest friendship.



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    Wi rhatten auch schon überlegt ob wir eins auf englisch lesen sollten. Allerdigs haben wir uns darauf geeinigt, dass wir darauf nur zurückgreifen wenn wir keine deutschen mehr finden die und auch gefallen ^^


    aber danke für deien vorschläge,w ir werden sie uns auch auf jeden fall anschauen ^^

    "A really nice Prom Mess" von Brian Sloan


    Cameron doesn't want to go to prom. Not with his boyfriend, Shane, and definitely not with his fake date, Virginia. Sure, it's senior prom, it's the end of high school, and Virginia's drop-dead gorgeous. But none of that matters to Cam, who's never liked any high school dance. Ever.
    Then an unexpected kiss changes everything, and Cam needs to make a quick exit. After teaming up with a waiter who's been dealing drugs in the bathroom, Cam leaves the prom. But his night is far from over. From a high-speed car chase, to a stop at the after-prom party, to a bar with a wild dance contest...Cam's night finally ends in the most unlikely of romances.



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    "A Tale of Two Summers" von Brian Sloane


    Chuck is straight, and Hal is gay. They have been best friends since the age of 5. Now, at 15, they must spend their first summer apart; Chuck has the lead in a musical show. They talk online through a blog, often several times a day, and they share every intimate detail of their lives, including romance and sex ("OMG . . . we friggin' made out!!"). Hal hooks up with and has sex with Henri, a French foreign exchange student, but Henri's pot habit gets out of control. Chuck is caught between two young women, but what involves him the most are rehearsals for the show and the build-up to opening night. As with any blog, the talk is often repetitive and trivial, and readers will race through the rambling interchanges, maybe even skip some. But the two contemporary voices are right-on: informal without being cute; supportive, irritable, funny, and angry; intense about love, sex, drugs, family--and especially about friendship.



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    "Eight Seconds" von Jean Ferris


    Despite a childhood heart operation that has left him feeling different from others, 18-year-old cowboy John Ritchie goes to rodeo camp with high aspirations for success. Although he and his buddies do well, their skills pale in comparison to those of handsome mature Kit. But after becoming friends with Kit, John discovers his new rodeo friend is gay, and his old perceptions are challenged in a way that changes him forever.



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    "Uncle Sean" von Ronald Donaghe


    When fourteen-year-old Will Barnett meets his Uncle Sean, whom he has not seen since he was six years old, Will is instantly captivated by his uncle's beauty and begins at that moment to fall in love. That such love is dangerous and forbidden, young Will is only vaguely aware. While trying to understand what his feelings mean, he is driven to write about his Uncle Sean and begins with these words: "Uncle Sean sure is pretty, but there's something wrong with him, anyway."



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    "Vintage: A Ghost Story" von Steve Berman


    A lonely boy walking along a highway one autumn evening meets the boy of his dreams, a boy who happens to have died decades ago and haunts the road. Awkward crushes, both bitter and sweet, lead him to face youthful dreams and childish fears. With its cast of offbeat friends, antiques, and Ouija boards, Vintage is not your typical romance but does offers readers a memorable blend of dark humor, chills and love.



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    "The Straight Road to Kylie" von Nico Medina


    Life is fabulous for Jonathan Parish.
    He's seventeen, out and proud, and ready to party through senior year with his posse of best girlfriends. But the year starts off with the wrong kind of bang when Jonathan -- in an inebriated lapse of judgment -- sleeps with a friend of his...a girl friend!


    When word gets around that hot-but-previously-unavailable Jonathan might be on the market, the school's It girl approaches him with a proposal: pretend to be her boyfriend, and achieve popularity like he's never known. But popularity isn't what Jonathan wants. And suddenly, going back into the closet becomes Jonathan's only way to get what he's after -- a trip to see Kylie Minogue.



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