sexual orientation

Callie loves the theater and singing, but she can't sing very well herself. So when her middle school decides to put on "Moon over Mississippi," Callie decides to be the set designer for the stage crew. Callie is going to put on a Broadway-worthy show--if only ticket sales were up, and she knew something about carpentry, and if there weren't squabbles among the crew. Maybe, Callie thinks, the two cute twin boys who have just joined the theater can help.

With both joy and fear, seventeen-year-old Ariel begins to explore her sexuality, while living with her controlling, abusive father who has told Ariel that her mother deserted her years ago.

Fifteen-year-old Jenn McDaniels's life on Whidbey Island becomes more complicated and her relationships with old and new friends take strange turns, partly due to the arrival of a woman researching a strange black seal.

Sixteen-year-old Ava does not know who she is or where she belongs, but when she tries out a new personality--and sexual orientation--at a different school, her edgy girlfriend, potential boyfriend, and others are hurt by her lack of honesty.

"When seventeen-year-old Riley Frost swears off romance and starts investigating a murder, she confides in her best friend, budding filmmaker Desmond Brandt, who may not have Riley's best interests at heart"--Provided by publisher.

Raised as a boy, fourteen-year-old Alex, who has male and female sexual body parts, rejects the hormonal medications prescribed by his mother and decides to live as a girl.

Set in the contemporary Paris of American expatriate liaisons, and violence, a young man finds himself caught between desire and conventional morality.

Bullied at school, dumped by his friends, and pressured at home, an artistic teenager struggling with his sexuality and identity makes a desperate attempt to end his loneliness.

Neuroscientist Simon LeVay presents evidence he believes supports a biological explanation for sexual orientation, contending one's sexual preference is determined by an interaction between genes, sex hormones, and the developing brain.