Bill Konigsberg

Rafe está harto. Desde que salió del armario con sus padres y en el instituto, para muchos no es más que «el chico gay» del pueblo. Quiere empezar de nuevo y la Academia Natick, un colegio privado masculino donde enseguida encaja con los más deportistas, parece el lugar perfecto para reinventarse sin mencionar ese detalle. Pero todo tiene un precio y, cuanta más amistad hace Rafe con sus compañeros, más difícil le es ocultarse sin mentir. Y además, hay un problema. Ese problema es un chico enorme, tierno y encantador que se llama Ben. -- Ilustración de portada: Inma M. Guillamón

Rafe saiu do armário aos 13 anos e nunca sofreu bullying. Mas está cansado de ser rotulado como o garoto gay, o porta-voz de uma causa. Por isso ele decide entrar numa escola só para meninos em outro estado e manter sua orientação sexual em segredo: não com o objetivo de voltar para o armário e sim para nascer de novo, como uma folha em branco. O plano funciona no início, e ele chega até a fazer parte do grupo dos atletas e do time de futebol. Mas as coisas se complicam quando ele percebe que está se apaixonando por um de seus novos amigos héteros.

PARA TODO EL QUE HAYA DESEADO QUE ALGUIEN TE VEA, TE COMPRENDA Y TE QUIERA TAL Y COMO ERES... Rafe tiene pensado pasar las vacaciones de Navidad en su casa de Colorado, lamentándose por lo que casi ocurre pero no ocurrió con Ben; pero su mejor amiga, Claire Olivia, tiene planes para él. Mientras tanto, Ben está pasando las Navidades en la granja de su familia en Nuevo Hampshire, y no se siente precisamente feliz. Un relato solo en formato digital de Bill Konigsberg que sucede después de Abiertamente hetero y antes de su secuela, Sinceramente Ben. «Me pregunté si Rafe me habría reconocido en el muñeco de nieve. Y me pregunté si, algún día, alguien me volvería a amar de esa forma». (Ben Carver) -- Ilustración de portada: Inma M. Guillamón

The award-winning novel about being out, being proud, and being ready for something else . . . now in paperback. Rafe is a normal teenager from Boulder, Colorado. He plays soccer. He's won skiing prizes. He likes to write. And, oh yeah, he's gay. He's been out since 8th grade, and he isn't teased, and he goes to other high schools and talks about tolerance and stuff. And while that's important, all Rafe really wants is to just be a regular guy. Not that GAY guy. To have it be a part of who he is, but not the headline, every single time. So when he 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 break down. He meets a teacher who challenges him to write his story. And most of all, he falls in love with Ben . . . who doesn't even know that love is possible. This witty, smart, coming-out-again story will appeal to gay and straight kids alike as they watch Rafe navigate feeling different, fitting in, and what it means to be himself.

From Stonewall Award winner Bill Konigsberg, a remarkable, funny, sexy, heartbreaking story of two teen boys finding each other in New York City at the height of the AIDS epidemic. The first thing I noticed about C.J. Gorman was his plexiglass bra. So begins Destination Unknown. It's 1987 in New York City, and Micah is at a dance club, trying to pretend he's more out and outgoing than he really is. C.J. isn't just out--he’s completely out there, and Micah can't help but be both attracted to and afraid of someone who travels so loudly and proudly through the night. A connection occurs. Is it friendship? Romance? Is C.J. the one with all the answers... or does Micah bring more to the relationship that it first seems? As their lives become more and more entangled in the AIDS epidemic that’s laying waste to their community, and the AIDS activism that will ultimately bring a strong voice to their demands, whatever Micah and C.J. have between them will be tested, strained, pushed, and pulled--but it will also be a lifeline in a time of death, a bond that will determine the course of their futures. In Destination Unknown, Bill Konigsberg returns to a time he knew well as a teenager to tell a story of identity, connection, community, and survival.

Ben Carver is back to normal. He’s getting all As in his classes at the Natick School. He was just elected captain of the baseball team. He’s even won a big scholarship for college, if he can keep up his grades. All that foolishness with Rafe Goldberg last semester is over now, and he just needs to be a Carver, work hard, and stay focused. Except… There’s Hannah, a gorgeous girl who attracts him and distracts him. There’s his mother, whose quiet unhappiness he’s noticing for the first time. School is harder, the pressure higher, the scholarship almost slipping away. And there’s Rafe, funny, kind, dating someone else…and maybe the real normal that Ben needs.

Can't wait to read Honestly Ben, which Jay Asher called "hilarious" and "touching"? Dive into the world of Rafe and Ben with an all new ebook that picks up right where the award-winning Openly Straight left off! Rafe Goldberg was planning to spend winter break at home in Colorado openly mourning what he almost had with Ben. He wasn't expecting his best friend, Claire Olivia, to kidnap him. And he definitely wasn't expecting what she has planned to cheer him up... Ben Carver was honestly planning to spend winter break at home in New Hampshire not thinking about Rafe. But he wasn't expecting to run into his ex-girlfriend, who's still interested in him. And he wasn't expecting to find himself still attracted to her... Openly, Honestly tells two funny, sad, beautiful stories that were made for anyone who has longed for one person to see you, to understand you, and to love you exactly as you are.

The award-winning novel about being out, being proud, and being ready for something else . . . now in paperback. Rafe is a normal teenager from Boulder, Colorado. He plays soccer. He's won skiing prizes. He likes to write. And, oh yeah, he's gay. He's been out since 8th grade, and he isn't teased, and he goes to other high schools and talks about tolerance and stuff. And while that's important, all Rafe really wants is to just be a regular guy. Not that GAY guy. To have it be a part of who he is, but not the headline, every single time. So when he 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 break down. He meets a teacher who challenges him to write his story. And most of all, he falls in love with Ben . . . who doesn't even know that love is possible. This witty, smart, coming-out-again story will appeal to gay and straight kids alike as they watch Rafe navigate feeling different, fitting in, and what it means to be himself.

Star quarterback Bobby Framingham, one of the most talented high school football players in California, knows he's different from his teammates. They're like brothers, but they don't know one essential thing: Bobby is gay. Can he still be one of the guys and be honest about who he is? When he's outed against his will by a student reporter, Bobby must find a way to earn back his teammates' trust and accept that his path to success might be more public, and more difficult, than he'd hoped. An affecting novel about identity that also delivers great sportswriting.

SINCERAMENTE BEN, LA SECUELA DE ABIERTAMENTE HETERO. Tras las vacaciones de Navidad, Ben regresa al internado Natick e intenta hacer vida normal. Todo parece ir acaban de elegirlo capitán del equipo de béisbol, le han dado una beca, conoce a una chica interesante y, sobre todo, está convencido de que ha dejado atrás lo que sucedió con Rafe. Sin embargo, la presión por ser perfecto empieza a hacer mella en él. Además, su familia tiene problemas de los que no se había dado cuenta hasta ahora y, para colmo, Rafe sigue allí... saliendo con otro chico. Sinceramente Ben está contado desde el punto de vista de Ben, un chico al que su padre ha educado a contener sus emociones, evitar el conflicto y ser un hombre. Ben es un adolescente humilde que ha trabajado duro para ganarse donde está y que tiene siempre una sonrisa para los demás, aunque pocas veces para él mismo. -- Ilustración de portada: Inma M. Guillamón

Two teenagers, strangers to each other, have decided to jump from the same bridge at the same time. Aaron and Tillie don't know each other, but they are both feeling suicidal, and arrive at the George Washington Bridge at the same time, intending to jump. Aaron is a gay misfit struggling with depression and loneliness. Tillie isn't sure what her problem is -- only that she will never be good enough. On the bridge, there are four things that could happen: Aaron jumps and Tillie doesn't. Tillie jumps and Aaron doesn't. They both jump. Neither of them jumps.

Max: Chill. Sports. Video games. Gay and not a big deal, not to him, not to his mom, not to his buddies. And a secret: An encounter with an older kid that makes it hard to breathe, one that he doesn't want to think about, ever. Jordan: The opposite of chill. Poetry. His "wives" and the Chandler Mall. Never been kissed and searching for Mr. Right, who probably won't like him anyway. And a secret: A spiraling out of control mother, and the knowledge that he's the only one who can keep the family from falling apart. Throw in a rickety, 1980s-era food truck called Coq Au Vinny. Add in prickly pears, cloud eggs, and a murky idea of what's considered locally sourced and organic. Place it all in Mesa, Arizona, in June, where the temp regularly hits 114. And top it off with a touch of undeniable chemistry between utter opposites. Over the course of one summer, two boys will have to face their biggest fears and decide what they're willing to risk -- to get the thing they want the most.

The author of OPENLY STRAIGHT returns with an epic road trip involving family history, gay history, the girlfriend our hero can't have, the grandfather he never knew, and the Porcupine of Truth. Carson Smith is resigned to spending his summer in Billings, Montana, helping his mom take care of his father, a dying alcoholic he doesn't really know. Then he meets Aisha Stinson, a beautiful girl who has run away from her difficult family, and Pastor John Logan, who's long held a secret regarding Carson's grandfather, who disappeared without warning or explanation thirty years before. Together, Carson and Aisha embark on an epic road trip to find the answers that might save Carson's dad, restore his fragmented family, and discover the "Porcupine of Truth" in all of their lives.

ארון וטילי לא מכירים זה את זו, אבל שניהם מגיעים לגשר ג'ורג' וושינגטון באותו זמן, עם אותה כוונה. ארון מרגיש בשולי החברה, שונה ובודד. טילי לא בדיוק יודעת מה הבעיה שלה – רק שהיא לעולם לא תהיה מספיק טובה. על הגשר יכולים לקרות ארבעה דברים: ארון קופץ וטילי לא. טילי קופצת וארון לא. שניהם קופצים. אף אחד לא קופץ. אבל ייתכן שכל ארבעת הדברים קורים. הרומן המדהים ומלא התובנות הזה מגולל את הסיפורים של ארבע האפשרויות וחוקר בכנות מוחלטת מה נדרש כדי לחיות. ביל קוניגסברג כתב חמישה ספרי נוער, שזכו בפרסים רבים. הוא חי עם בעלו, צ'אק ושני הכלבים שלהם, מייבל ובפורד.