Openly Straight
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Level 4.7, 12 Points
Bill Konigsberg. (2017). Openly Straight. Unabridged Dreamscape Media.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation (style guide)Bill Konigsberg. 2017. Openly Straight. Dreamscape Media.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities Citation (style guide)Bill Konigsberg, Openly Straight. Dreamscape Media, 2017.
MLA Citation (style guide)Bill Konigsberg. Openly Straight. Unabridged Dreamscape Media, 2017.
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- 2017 Parents' Choice Award Winner! Rafe is a normal teenager from Colorado. He's been out since 8th grade, accepted by his peers & championed by his progressive parents. And while that's important, all Rafe really wants is to be a regular guy. To have his sexuality be a part of who he is, but not the headline, every single time. So when Rafe transfers to an all-boys' boarding school in New England, he decides to keep his sexuality a secret — not so much going back in the closet as starting over with a clean slate. But then he sees a classmate breaking down and realizes his own labels aren't well-concealed. And most of all, he falls in love with Ben...who doesn't even know that love is possible.
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- content: The book tackles issues of sexuality and coming out from an interesting angle...Recommend this one to fans of Brent Hartinger's Geography Club (HarperCollins, 2003), Michael Harmon's The Last Exit to Normal (Knopf, 2008), and Julie Anne Peters's Define 'Normal' (Little, Brown, 2000).
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June 17, 2013
Konigsberg (Out of the Pocket) raises compelling questions about stereotyping and self-actualization through the story of openly gay high school junior Rafe Goldberg. Though Rafe has a supportive family and community in progressive Boulder, Co., he still feels stifled by being known as "the gay kid." In order to try to live a "label-free life," Rafe transfers to an East Coast boarding school with the intention of keeping his sexuality a secret ("The only way I would actually lie was if I were asked directly, âAre you gay?' "). At school, Rafe is quickly befriended by a group of jocks, and even kissed by a girl at a party, but he begins to question his experiment when his feelings for a friend develop into something more. Introspective essays Rafe composes about his life for a writing seminar seem overly scripted, and the plot becomes predictable long before Rafe faces a crisis of conscience. Even so, Rafe's story about seeking a different kind of acceptance should spur readers to rethink sexual identity and what it means to be "out." Ages 14âup. Agent: Linda Epstein, Jennifer DeChiara Literary Agency.
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