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YA Latina Lesbians: On Mayra Lazara Dole’s Down to the Bone

By Sonia|2020-03-28T13:42:44-05:00January 14th, 2014|Categories: Archive, Book Review|Tags: lesbian, PoC, Queer Girls|

by Sonia Alejandra Rodriguez Down to the Bone (Harper Teen & Bella Books, 2012) In Mayra Lazara Dole’s [1] Down to the Bone (2012) Laura, a Cuban-American high school junior, is forced to come-out when her Catholic school teacher reads Laura’s private texts to her girlfriend aloud to the entire class. As a result, Laura is humiliated, kicked out of school, and asked by her mother to leave their home. Dole’s description of Laura’s coming-out is significant, among many reasons, because it centers a Latina lesbian protagonist. Despite the increased awareness for the need of diverse [...]

Review: Pink by Lili Wilkinson

By Maria|2020-03-28T13:43:21-05:00April 6th, 2011|Categories: Archive, Book Review|Tags: lesbian, Queer Girls, Realistic|

Sam blogs online at LoonyReads, and can be found on Twitter under @Pagan_Elina. Like many before me, my first introduction to gay and lesbian characters in YA Lit was in Holly Black’s Tithe. I remember being enthralled by Corny, and I found his and Naphemel’s relationship to be riveting and so interesting. I have always been an open minded person and from then on started to read as many GLBT books and I could, partly for my own mixed thoughts about myself. When Vicky asked me to do this Review for the opening of the GayYa.org I [...]

Review: Ash by Malinda Lo

By admin|2020-03-28T13:43:24-05:00April 4th, 2011|Categories: Archive, Book Review|Tags: lesbian, Queer Girls|

Review by Andrea of Aines Realm. Andrea is a book reviewer and blogger and can be found on Twitter @AineFey. I read Ash by Malinda Lo a few months ago for a book club. It was one of my favorite books I’ve read this year. It’s a retelling of the classic Fairy Tale, Cinderella, but with many differences. It starts out very similar, with the mother passing away and the father remarrying a woman with two daughters of her own, followed shortly by his own death. Due to her father’s money not being able to keep a household running, [...]