2009 Rainbow List

From ALA’s Rainbow Project comes the 2009 Rainbow List that features books with "authentic and significant gay/lesbian/bisexual/transgendered/questioning (GLBTQ) content for youth from birth through age 18."

There are 34 titles on the list all published in the last 18 months.  They include a couple of picture books, two middle-grade novels, two graphic novels, and four adult books amongst the teen titles. 

Four titles were selected as being especially noteworthy:

Down to the Bone by Mayra Lazara Dole

10,000 Dresses by Marcus Ewert

Last Exit to Normal by Michael Harmon

Skim by Mariko Tamaki