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Openly Straight
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Series:
Openly straight volume 1.
Published:
Dreamscape Media 2017
Accelerated Reader:
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 12
Lexile measure:
HL: High-Low 680L
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Description
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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Format:
OverDrive MP3 Audiobook, OverDrive Listen
Edition:
Unabridged
Street Date:
03/21/2017
Language:
English
ISBN:
9781666599220
Accelerated Reader:
UG
Level 4.7, 12 Points
Lexile code:
HL: High-Low
Lexile measure:
680
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APA Citation (style guide)

Bill Konigsberg. (2017). Openly Straight. Unabridged Dreamscape Media.

Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation (style guide)

Bill Konigsberg. 2017. Openly Straight. Dreamscape Media.

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Bill Konigsberg, Openly Straight. Dreamscape Media, 2017.

MLA Citation (style guide)

Bill Konigsberg. Openly Straight. Unabridged Dreamscape Media, 2017.

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        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, ‘Are 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 14–up. Agent: Linda Epstein, Jennifer DeChiara Literary Agency.

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