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Love & Sex by Michael Cart

Love & Sex

Michael Cart, Joan Bauer, Emma Donoghue

Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers · Paperback · January 1, 2003

Lust, Desire, Fantasy, Obsession, Love In one outstanding volume, ten of today's finest authors of adult and young-adult literature lend teir talent and their vioces to take a hard, clear look at love and sexuality.

YA LGBTQ+Dating & Sex for TeensYA Short Storiesshort story
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Who it’s for
Ten stories explore love and sexuality with candor, feeling, and room for complication.
Genres
Dating & Sex for Teens, YA Short Stories, YA LGBTQ+
Published
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, January 1, 2003

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About this book

Lust, Desire, Fantasy, Obsession, Love In one outstanding volume, ten of today's finest authors of adult and young-adult literature lend teir talent and their vioces to take a hard, clear look at love and sexuality. From balancing abstinence and desire, to learning the difference between love and lust, to fulfilling a childhood obsession, each of these stories depicts characters exploring a world of new feelings and sensations that is opening up before them.

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At times magical, funny, sad, and angry -- but always heartbraakingly honest -- these stories reveal the pressures and complications -- and sometimes joy -- of love and sex. Laurie Halse Anderson "Snake" Joan Bauer "Extra Virgin" Emma Donoghue "The Welcome" Louise Hawes "Fine and Dandy" Angela Johnson "Watcher" Michael Lowenthal "The Acuteness of Desire" Chris Lynch "The Cure of Curtis" GarhtNix "Lightning Bringer" Sonya Sones "Secret Shelf" Shelley Steohr "Troll Bumps"

Feelings, Unvarnished

Ten stories explore love and sexuality with candor, feeling, and room for complication.

Come here for

  • Stories that look plainly at desire, love, and the pressures around sex
  • A mix of magical, funny, sad, and angry voices

Expect

  • Characters meeting new feelings and sensations
  • Heartbreakingly honest takes on the complications—and occasional joy—of love and sex

Where it sits

YA Short Stories76%
YA LGBTQ+58%
Dating & Sex for Teens55%

Percentages are BookFrontier’s reading of the book.

Publisher categories

  • YA Romance
  • YA Short Stories
  • Dating & Sex for Teens
Authors
Michael Cart, Joan Bauer, Emma Donoghue
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Published
January 1, 2003
Format
Paperback
Reading lane
YA Romance