Boy Meets Boy
 | Knopf Books for Young Readers, 2005, Paperback Customer Rating: 60 reviews Recommend |
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- ISBN13: 9780375832994
- Condition: New
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This is the story of Paul, a sophomore at a high school like no other: The cheerleaders ride Harleys, the homecoming queen used to be a guy named Daryl (she now prefers Infinite Darlene and is also the star quarterback), and the gay-straight alliance was formed to help the straight kids learn how to dance.
When Paul meets Noah, he thinks he’s found the one his heart is made for. Until he blows it. The school bookie says the odds are 12-to-1 against him getting Noah back, but Paul’s not giving up without playing his love really loud. His best friend Joni might be drifting away, his other best friend Tony might be dealing with ultra-religious parents, and his ex-boyfriend Kyle might not be going away anytime soon, but sometimes everything needs to fall apart before it can really fit together right.
This is a happy-meaningful romantic comedy about finding love, losing love, and doing what it takes to get love back in a crazy-wonderful world.
From the Hardcover edition.
In this delightful young adult novel for readers 12 and up, high school sophomore Paul says, "There isn’t really a gay scene or a straight scene in our town. They got all mixed up a while back, which I think is for the best." And, as he observes at the end of the story, "It's a wonderful world." Paul has both gay and straight friends, and they all hang out together at terrific bookstores and concerts, and advise one another on the sometimes troubled progress of their various romances. Paul is smitten with Noah, and they are beginning a serious relationship when Kyle, Paul’s ex, complicates things by deciding that all is forgiven. Joni is going out with Chuck, who dominates her, much to her friends' disapproval. Tony’s conservative parents refuse to acknowledge that he is gay, so the others must bone up on Bible verses all week so they can pretend Saturday night is a study group. And then there's Infinite Darlene, football quarterback and Homecoming Queen, who deserves a whole romance novel of her own. Life in their town is gloriously accepting of differences and only occasionally verges on magic realism, in this first novel in which same sex preference is not the problem. — Patty Campbell
Title: Boy Meets Boy
Sales Rank: 33735 in Books
Author: David Levithan
Publisher: Knopf Books for Young Readers, 2005-05-10, Paperback, 192 pages, ISBN: 0375832998
Item Dimensions: 8.09 x 5.21 x 0.43 inches, 0.34 pounds
Package Dimensions: 8 x 5.4 x 0.7 inches, 0.45 pounds
- Sweet But Underdeveloped
- The book was a charming read with some gentle chuckles and some genuinely touching moments. That being said, the concept of the book, set in a school where the quarterback is a drag queen and the boy scout troop has been rechristened the "joy scouts," is slightly head scratching. I would say it's almost a fable or fairy tale except… More reviews
- Boy Meets Boy, Not Cruel, Unforgiving World.
- One day at the bookstore I picked this randomly off of a shelf.
I did not want hard-core insight on the cruel life of a teenager in an unaccepting school and community. I wanted some good insight on a good story and the art of writing from a hardly described point-of-view, and that's exactly what I got.
This isn't about the fact that… More reviews
- This book makes my heart happy
- I absolutely adore this book. It was a very easy read and I instantly fell in love with many of the characters. The language is beautiful and elegant in a simple, streamlined manner. Though not truly a fantasy, David Levithan's Boy Meets Boy has a dreamy, otherworldly quality about it, perhaps only for the fact that unique characters such as these are… More reviews
- Good book, but author missed a great opportunity
- 'Boy Meets Boy' is a good book for GLBT teens to read and relate to: the normalization of the characters' differing sexuality via the casual way that the people in the town and school accept each other is touching. However I was disappointed that the author missed a great opportunity to increase GLBT acceptance. Clearly, a U.S. high school with… More reviews
- Funny and delightful
- The tagline on this book is "A dippy happy gay teen book." This definitely describes the gay utopia atmosphere and the purposefully happy focus of the book and its message. Boy Meets Boy is a fantasy story set in a contemporary time. If you can indulge in the crazy city with its over the top antics, the story doesn't fail… More reviews
