Category: Coming of Age Fiction
The Courage To Shine by Yet Fry
A young adult gay coming-of-age story about finding your people, speaking your truth, and discovering the kind of bravery that can change everything. What if…
This Is Not A Phase – Gay Coming of Age
A heartfelt coming-of-age and coming-out as gay story about courage, community, and the transformative power of sharing your truth. He hit “publish” and everything changed….
Daisies Die In Winter
1968 was to be his Summer of Love…coming of age and coming out in a small Texas rodeo town at a time when same-sex dancing…
We Speak In Storms
A haunting coming-of-age young adult novel It’s been more than fifty years since a tornado tore through a drive-in movie theater in tiny Mercer, Illinois,…
The Rites of Passage
Jonathan A. Taylor’s The Rites of Passage is marketed as the first in a series of novels; it also ably stands on its own. The…
Queer as a Five-Dollar Bill
Inspired by real historical evidence that Abraham Lincoln was in love—romantic love—with another man, this debut young adult novel was too controversial for traditional publishing….
