Sylvia Aguilar-Zeleny

• Aug-2015
• / Romance
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Have you ever had a big secret? In Coming Out, six LGBT teens tell their coming out stories. These compelling first-person accounts encompass the many things teens already navigate; school, love, friendships, drama, family, and the rest. But LGBT tee...

• Sep-2015
• / General Fiction
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Alex has two dreams: to become a farmer and a man. There's only one problem: Alex is a girl who believes she was born in the wrong body. She has never shared the truth about herself, not even with her best friend, until now. Alex is about to discover...

• Sep-2015
• / General Fiction
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Seventeen-year-old Leroy wants to study art and become a painter. Although he has good relationships with his family and friends, Leroy is far from being happy. With his older brother now in jail, Leroy feels even more trapped by his big secret. He i...

• Sep-2015
• / General Fiction
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While living in Santa Barbara and attending a private school, Maria's life was comfortably boring. Then her sister died, her father lost his job, and the whole family was forced to start over. When they move to the barrio in East L.A. to live with Ma...

• Sep-2015
• / General Fiction
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Mikala is a native Hawaiian growing up in New Jersey with her grandparents. Although they are a loving couple, they have their own dreams and hopes for Mikala. First on this list, is having her date a guy from her own culture. Two problems: Mikala li...

• Sep-2015
• / General Fiction
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After spending a summer at a Teen Mental Health Clinic, sixteen-year-old Tom accepts that he is gay. He attends a new school where he has made friends, is on the swim team, and most importantly, has found love. Tom's secret relationship with Sean, th...

• Sep-2015
• / General Fiction
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Wonnie is a brave girl who came out at just thirteen years old. She found support in her parents and taught herself to live life to its fullest. Wonnie belongs to a friendly LGBT community in Philadelphia. She produces Come Out!, a podcast that has b...

• Feb-2020
• / General Fiction
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12-year-old Julia keeps a diary about her life growing up in Juarez, Mexico. Life in Juarez is strange. People say its the murder capital of the world. Dad’s gone a lot. They can’t play outside because it isn’t safe. Drug cartels rule the st...

• Mar-2023
• / Literary
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Trash interweaves the voices of three women with lived connections to the municipal garbage dump of Ciudad Juárez, Mexico. Aguilar Zéleny's Trash shows the complexities of survival and joy, love and violence for three women: a teenager ab...