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Openly Straight (2013)

by Bill Konigsberg(Favorite Author)

3.85 of 5 Votes: 6

ISBN

0545509890 (ISBN13: 9780545509893)

languge

English

genre

Romance

publisher

Arthur A. Levine Books

review 1: Rafe doesn't want to be identified as "GAY". He knows he is gay. He is out and proud but that is not his entire identity. He wants to have a life outside of the "GAY box" - at least that is what he tells himself when he moves to an all-boys boarding school and pretends to be heterosexual. Turns out his experiment has unintended consequences in that others who do not see life through his lenses are caught up in the collateral crossfire. An intriguing novel and readers will be glad to know that the author is planning a sequel.
review 2: (YA) From the Cooperative Children's Book Center, WI 2014 YA recommendations. an 8th grader comes out/is accepted but wants to go to school where other’s don’t know his sexuality; transfers to boarding school in the east, att... moreempts to play ‘straight’/does so successfully until he falls in love and all falls apart. The characters I loved were the vegan/hippie parents, who were a blast (but not my parents); good but I do have to say it was a bit disappointing & yet I can’t put my finger on the disappointment part; CCBC 2014 Fiction for YA recommendation; 2013 hardbarck via Madison County Public Library, Berea, 320 pgs.; 4 out of 5 stars; read Nov. 26 2014/# 68 less

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