- Preparatory schools, Juvenile fiction, Fiction, Gay teenagers
Rafe has been out since eighth grade, and he's fine with it, and so is everyone else. But sometimes he just wants to be a regular guy, not the gay guy. So when he transfers to an all-boys' boarding school in New England, he decides to become "openly straight" instead.
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Contemporary, classical in form, intimate and effortless.
- contemporarynostalgic
- classical in formformally daring
- intimateepic
- effortlessdemanding
- sparerichly built
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- Author
- Bill Konigsberg
- First published
- 2013
- Pages
- 336
- Publisher
- Arthur A. Levine Books, Dreamscape Media, Scholastic, Incorporated
- Editions
- 5
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9781520066776
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Bill Konigsberg is the award-winning author of seven young adult novels. THE PORCUPINE OF TRUTH won the PEN Center USA Literary Award and the Stonewall Book Award in 2016. OPENLY STRAIGHT won the Sid Fleischman Award for Humor, was a finalist for the Amelia Elizabeth Walden Award and Lambda Literary Award in 2014 and has been translated into five languages. His debut novel, OUT OF THE POCKET, won the Lambda Literary Award in 2009. THE MUSIC OF WHAT HAPPENS, released in 2019, received two starred reviews, and has been optioned for a film. THE BRIDGE, released in 2020, received two starred reviews and was optioned for a film by Amazon. In 2018, The National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE
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