What's the Best, Most Powerful LGBT Young Adult Novel You've Read Recently?

Current queer YA literature offers critical literacy moments beyond the context of

"real life." When I teach David Levithan's debut novel Boy Meets Boy, students find it humorous and interesting (in that voyeuristic "that's kinda weird" way); they love the narrative voice and its attitude and they find the incongruity of the drag-queen-star-quarterback both wonderfully exaggerated and oddly critical of the gendered world of football/team sports. Yet they are also quick to say, "But this book is too unrealistic! That would never happen!" In presenting a "modern fairytale," Levithan disrupts mythical constructions that continue to pervade American culture, particularly myths about gender, sexuality, and religion, and creates a space in a critical pedagogy for reenvisioning the options before us.

What's the Best, Most Powerful LGBT Young Adult Novel You've Read Recently?

By: Arsenalo

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