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1) Change
Publisher
Frameline
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
An African-American teenager grapples with his sexual identity on the night Barack Obama is elected President and Proposition 8--the California voter initiative to eliminate same-sex marriage--is passed. When one of Jamie's friend group initiates the bullying of an openly gay classmate, Jamie uses his wits to try and prevent it, but when things don't go the way he predicted, he is forced to face his fears head on. Winner of the Audience Award for...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Newly published as a stand-alone edition, Vogel's widely celebrated masterpiece How I Learned to Drive was the winner of the 1998 Pulitzer Prize for Drama, the Obie and Drama Desk Awards for Outstanding Play, and other honors. Known for its dark subject matter, the play examines the effects of child abuse on identity and the discovery of strength through trauma.
5) Katydid
Publisher
Frameline
Pub. Date
2004
Language
English
Description
"In this short comedy, young Skye just wants to have a date for once without twin brother Leif getting in the way. When Leif manages to lure the girl away once again, Skye finally confronts his brother, and they learn that all is not as it appears when it comes to matters of the heart"-- http://catalog.frameline.org.
6) Ma
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Sue Ann, a loner in her quiet Ohio town, is asked by Maggie, a new teenager in town, to buy some booze for her and her friends. Sue Ann sees the chance to make some unsuspecting younger friends. She offers the kids the chance to avoid drinking and driving by hanging out in the basement of her home as long as they abide by the house rules. Her hospitality starts to curdle into obsession, and what began as a teenage dream turns into a terrorizing nightmare....
7) Animals
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
This very unconventional coming-of-age tale is an intoxicating blend of fantasy and cold reality as it follows shy teenager's perilous period when exciting but troubling sexuality enters into his formerly innocent world. Seventeen-year-old high-schooler Pol has stubbornly extended his childhood, aided in no small measure by his opinionated, drums-playing, English-speaking pet teddy bear Deerhoof. But when he meets alluring new student Ikari, the safety...
Publisher
Strand Releasing
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
Portuguese
Description
Set against the music of Belle and Sebastian, Daniel Ribeiro's coming of age tale, THE WAY HE LOOKS is a sweet and tender story about friendship and the complications of young love.Leo is a blind teenager who's fed up with his overprotective mother and the bullies at school. Looking to assert his independence, he decides to study abroad to the dismay of his best friend, Giovana. When Gabriel, the new kid in town, teams with Leo on a school project,...
Author
Publisher
Privately published
Pub. Date
1990.
Language
English
Description
Fifteen-year-old Trixi and rival gang member Tiroloco have both racked up over 20 killings as they compete for the highest body count. Piolin, another kid in the gang, is in love with Trixi and thinks he can help her escape the darkness surrounding her. Eleven year-old Candy, looks up to Trixi because she gets respect, even if it is through murder. Meanwhile, Lulu, the 20-year-old gang leader, is in business with Tiroloco to sell stolen guns, a clear...
13) Stray
Publisher
Frameline
Pub. Date
2007
Language
English
Description
A contemporary retelling of the classic tale of The City Mouse and the Country Mouse, Stray follows the story of Mouse, a teenager who leaves his home in the country in search of his place in the world. Along the way he is exposed to the seedy underbelly of the city and the people who live there, including the broken drag diva Lame Doe Ray, who takes him under her wing. Will Mouse be led astray and consumed by the drugsoaked landscape of the ghetto?...
14) Two-bit waltz
Publisher
Monterey Media, Inc
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
This dark, dysfunctional family comedy carries the dry wit and playful whimsy of a Wes Anderson film along with the brash authenticity and fresh perspective of its then-20 year old director, Clara Mamet. Featuring Academy Award nominee and Emmy winner, William H. Macy.In the wonderfully dysfunctional tradition of The Royal Tenenbaums, teenage years are always messy... but for Maude, things couldn't seem more tragic. Within one week just prior to her...
15) Dogtooth
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
Greek
Description
2011 Academy Award nominee for best foreign language films and winner of the Un Certain Regard prize at the 2009 Cannes Film Festival, Yorgos Lanthimos' Dogtooth is a darkly funny look at three teenagers confined to their parents' isolated country estate and living in an absurdist, nightmarish experiment of manipulation and oppression.
16) Monster pies
Publisher
Breaking Glass Pictures
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
Mike has felt alienated and alone for as long as he can remember, until a new boy arrives at his school - awakening feelings and a world of possibilities he'd never before dared to dream of.
17) Marilyn
Publisher
Breaking Glass Pictures
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
Español
Description
Marcos, a seventeen-year-old farm worker, discovers his sexuality in a hostile environment. Nicknamed Marilyn by other teenagers in town, he becomes the target both of human desire and discrimination. Marcos feels himself pushed into a corner more and more.
Author
Publisher
Currency Press
Pub. Date
2005.
Language
English
Description
Three lost children discover an abandoned orphanage in the bush and become trapped in a timeless world, haunted by spirits of the past and tormented by the ominous Black Skirt, a cruel governess harbouring a mysterious past. The children begin to listen to the stories of the restless spirits of other children who have passed through the orphanage, and by doing so release the spirits from the tragedies of their pasts. This new gothic fairytale for...
Publisher
CBS
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
Season Three of Nancy Drew begins one week after the Season Two finale when we saw Nancy's mystical relative Temperance Hudson return to Horseshoe Bay with a dark agenda. Nancy's hopes of leaving her hometown for college will be derailed by this mysterious nemesis, and her fate will become entwined with that of her greatest foe yet. This season's adventures will bring Nancy and her friends' standalone cases, new love interests, and emotional journeys...
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