Title: Boy Meets BoyAuthor: David Levithan
Publish Date: May 2005
Publisher: Random House Childrens Books
Pages: 192pp
ISBN: 0375832998
Classification: Fiction
Genre: Realistic Fiction
Age Range: 14 and up
Price: $17.99
Annotation: In boy meets boy, the boy is Paul. This boy meets another Boy, Noah. And in a town where love between boys is actually ok, Paul falls for Noah. But in Paul messes up he has to fight to get him back. And Paul isn't gonna give up.
Summary: Paul is gay and its ok in his town. Thus sets the scene for a typical love story. Boy meets girl. they fall in love. Boy looses girl. Boy wins girl back. This story is just your typical love story. Only difference? Boy meets boy.
Evaluation: The best thing about this book is the simplicity and fairytale world in which Paul lives. his town is accepting, even if his friend's town isn't, but where he lives it's ok to be gay outloud! It's your typical love story. But with a modern twist. I breezed through this bopok with a smile on my face thinking the whole time, "I bet there are two love stories going on here. One between the boys, and the other with the fantasy of hoping one day the world can be this way." And it's doesn't forget about the world today, with the Tony you meet a boy who is struggling with a very familiar plight: coming out to an unaccepting world.
Bibliotherapeutic Usefulness: Coming out to un-accepting audience, LGBTQ issues, Self-Awareness, and Self-Identity, Accepting who you are
Reason this book was chosen: A gay story that puts the "gay" back into gay!
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