Openly Straight is altogether one of the best gay-themed novels of the last ten years.' - Booklist, starred review * 'Readers and discussion groups looking for new and deeper ways to think about what it means to live honestly in a world that sorts by labels will find this fresh and evocative.' - The Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books, starred review 'For a thought-provoking, creative, twenty-first-century take on the coming-out story, look no further.' - The Horn Book Magazine, Praise for OPENLY STRAIGHT 'Konigsberg's lovely novel invites us to walk with Rafe through his season of assumed identity and his costly emergence into honesty. It's a story of salvation.' - The New York Times Book Review * 'Lambda Literary Award-winner Konigsberg has written an exceptionally intelligent, thought-provoking, coming-of-age novel about the labels people apply to us and that we, perversely, apply to ourselves. Praise for Openly Straight : Winner of the Sid Fleischman Award for Humor YALSA Best Fiction for Young Adults Selection Lambda Literary Award Finalist 'Konigsberg's lovely novel invites us to walk with Rafe through his season of assumed identity and his costly emergence into honesty. who doesn't even know that love is possible. And most of all, he falls in love with Ben. He meets a teacher who challenges him to write his story. But then he sees a classmate breaking down. So when he transfers to an all-boys' boarding school in New England, he decides to keep his sexuality a secret - not so much going back in the closet as starting over with a clean slate. To have it be a part of who he is, but not the headline, every single time. And while that's important, all Rafe really wants is to just be a regular guy. He's been out since 8th grade, and he isn't teased, and he goes to other high schools and talks about tolerance and stuff. Pre-order the companion novel Honestly Ben now (out 3/28/17) Rafe is a normal teenager from Boulder, Colorado. The award-winning novel about being out, being proud, and being ready for something else.

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