Love & Sex

Marc Notes: In one outstanding volume, ten of today's finest authors of adult and young-adult literature lend their talent and their voices to take a hard, clear look at love and sexuality. Publisher Marketing: 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. 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" Review Citations: PW Notes and Reprints 12/23/2002 pg. 73 (EAN 9780689856686, Paperback) Kliatt 03/01/2003 pg. 37 (EAN 9780689856686, Paperback) - *Starred Review Publishers Weekly 12/23/2002 (EAN 9780689856686, Paperback) Kirkus Review - Children 05/01/2001 pg. 656 (EAN 9780689832031, Hardcover) - *Starred Review Publishers Weekly 05/28/2001 pg. 90 (EAN 9780689832031, Hardcover) Booklist 05/01/2001 pg. 1675 (EAN 9780689832031, Hardcover) Horn Book Magazine 07/01/2001 pg. 448 (EAN 9780689832031, Hardcover) Ingram Children's Advance 05/01/2001 pg. 80 (EAN 9780689832031, Hardcover) New York Times 06/17/2001 pg. 24 (EAN 9780689832031, Hardcover) School Library Journal 06/01/2001 pg. 144 (EAN 9780689832031, Hardcover) - *Starred Review Hornbook Guide to Children 01/01/2001 pg. 400 (EAN 9780689832031, Hardcover) ALA Best Books Young Adults 03/15/2002 pg. 1228 (EAN 9780689832031, Hardcover) ALA Recmd for Reluctant YA's 03/15/2002 pg. 1240 (EAN 9780689832031, Hardcover) Booklist 06/01/2002 pg. 1709 (EAN 9780689832031, Hardcover) Hornbook Guide to Children 07/01/2001 pg. 400 (EAN 9780689832031, Hardcover) Contributor Bio:  Cart, Michael Past president of the Young Adult Library Services Association, Michael Cart is a columnist and reviewer for Booklist magazine. He is also the author or editor of nineteen books, including the gay coming-of-age novel My Father's Scar and--with Christine Jenkins--The Heart Has Its Reasons, a critical history of young adult literature with gay/lesbian/queer content. His anthologies include Love and Sex: Ten Stories of Truth and Necessary Noise: Stories about Our Families as They Really Are. In 2008 he was the first recipient of the YALSA/Greenwood Publishing Group Service to Young Adults Achievement Award, and in 2000 he received the Grolier Foundation Award for his contribution to the stimulation and guidance of reading by young people. Mr. Cart lives in Columbus, Indiana.