Full name: Am I Blue?: Coming Out from the Silence

Author: Marion Dane Bauer Year: 1994 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Lesbian, Short Stories, Award winners, Young adult Purchase/reserch links: Goodreads Amazon LibraryThing ISBNs: 9780064405874 0064405877

Each of these stories is original, each is by a noted author for young adults, and each honestly portrays its subject and theme--growing up gay or lesbian, or with gay or lesbian parents or friends. Includes: "Michael's Little Sister" / C. S. Adler "Dancing Backwards" / Marion Dane Bauer "Winnie and Tommy" / Francesca Lia Block "Am I Blue" / Bruce Coville "Parents Night" / Nancy Garden "Three Mondays in July" / James Cross Giblin "Running" / Ellen Howard "We Might as Well Be Strangers" / M. E. Kerr "Hands" / Jonathan London "Holding" / Lois Lowry "The Honorary Shepherds" / Gregory Maguire "Supper" / Lesléa Newman "50% Chance of Lightning" / Cristina Salat "In the Tunnels" / William Sleator "Slipping Away" / Jacqueline Woodson "Blood Sister" / Jane Yolen Similar books: How Beautiful the Ordinary by Michael Cart All Out by Saundra Mitchell Geektastic by Holly Black grl2grl by Julie Anne Peters Short Shorts by Irving Howe The Book of Other People by Zadie Smith Tellers of Tales by W. Somerset Maugham Short Stories from the Strand by Geraldine Beare The World's Shortest Stories by Steve Moss The World's Shortest Stories of Love and Death by Steve Moss Oddly Enough by Bruce Coville Children Playing Before a Statue of Hercules by David Sedaris Speaking with the Angel by Nick Hornby Wrong by Dennis Cooper 75 Short Masterpieces by Roger Goodman Letters in the Attic by Bonnie Shimko Far from Xanadu by Julie Anne Peters Deliver Us from Evie by M. E. Kerr Kissing the Witch by Emma Donoghue On My Honor by Marion Dane Bauer