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On this edition of The Smugglers’ Stash…
A New ALA Award:
The ALA has created an annual prize for gay and lesbian literature for young readers! The prize will be awarded on January 10th next year. This is wonderful news, and we could not be happier (Thanks to [...]
Author: Mark Charan Newton
Genre: Fantasy
Publisher: Tor UK
Publication Date: 4 Jun 2010
Hardcover: 400 pages
Villiren: a city of sin that is being torn apart from the inside. Hybrid creatures shamble through shadows and barely human gangs fight turf [...]
Author: Perry Moore
Genre: Speculative Fiction, Superhero, Young Adult, LGBT literature
Publisher: Disney (Hyperion)
Publication Date: August 2007
Paperback: 432 pages
Thom Creed is used to being on his own. Even as a highschool basketball star, he has to keep his distance [...]
Title: Will Grayson, Will Grayson
Author: John Green and David Levithan
Genre: YA/ Contemporary/ GLBT
Publisher: Dutton Juvenile
Publication Date: April 6 2010
Hardcover:304 Pages
Stand alone or series: Stand Alone
One cold night, in a most unlikely corner of Chicago, two teens—both [...]
Title: The Mermaid’s Madness
Author: Jim C. Hines
Genre: Fantasy
Publisher: Daw Books
Publishing Date: October 6, 2009
Paperback: 352 pages
Stand Alone or series: book 2 in the Princess Novels’ series
Why did I read the book: I read the first one and loved [...]
Title: Ash
Author: Malinda Lo
Genre: YA (Fantasy/ GLBT)
Publisher: Little, Brown / Hodder Children’s books
Publishing Date: September 1, 2009/ March 2010
Hardcover: 272 pages
Stand alone or series: Stand alone
Summary: In the wake of her father’s death, Ash is left at the mercy of her cruel stepmother. [...]
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