How beautiful the ordinary : twelve stories of identity / edited by Michael Cart.

Edition: 1st ed.

Publisher: New York, NY : HarperTeen, 2009.

ISBN: 9780061154980
0061154989
9780061155000 (lib. bdg.)
0061155004 (lib. bdg.)

Description: 350 p. : ill. ; 19 cm.

Subject: Short stories, American.
Gender identity Juvenile fiction.
Short stories.
Sexual orientation Fiction.
Identity Fiction.
Homosexuality Fiction.
Sex Fiction.
Love Fiction.

Contents: A world from the nearly distant past / David Levithan -- Happily ever after / Eric Shanower -- My life as a dog / Ron Koertge -- Trev / Jacqueline Woodson -- My virtual world / Francesca Lia Block -- A dark red love knot / Margo Lanagan -- Fingernail / William Sleator -- Dyke March / Ariel Schrag -- The missing person / Jennifer Finney Boylan -- First time / Julie Anne Peters -- Dear Lang / Emma Donoghue -- The Silk Road runs through Tupperneck, N.H. / Gregory Maguire.

Summary: Presents twelve stories by contemporary, award-winning young adult authors, some presented in graphic or letter format, which explore themes of gender identity, love, and sexuality.