Multiple queer main character identities.
Summary
Fans of Becky Albertelli, Adam Silvera and Nina LaCour will eat up this delicious anthology of romantic and adventurous contemporary and speculative stories featuring LGBTQ+ teens.
A follow-up to the critically acclaimed All Out anthology, Out Now features seventeen new short stories from amazing queer YA authors. Vampires crash prom…aliens run from the government…a president’s daughter comes into her own…a true romantic tries to soften the heart of a cynical social media influencer…a selkie and the sea call out to a lost soul. Teapots and barbershops…skateboards and VW vans…Street Fighter and Ares’s sword: Out Now has a story for every reader and surprises with each turn of the page!
This essential and beautifully written modern-day collection features an intersectional and inclusive slate of authors and stories.
Student Reviews
Death
child abuse
Drug Use
Grief
Homophobia
Xenophobia
Saundra Mitchell has been a phone psychic, a car salesperson, a denture-deliverer and a layout waxer. She’s dodged trains, endured basic training, and hitchhiked from Montana to California. The author of nearly twenty books for tweens and teens, Mitchell’s work includes Edgar Award nominee SHADOWED SUMMER, THE VESPERTINE series, Indiana Author Award Winner and Lambda Nominee ALL THE THINGS WE DO IN THE DARK, as well as the CAMP MURDERFACE series with Josh Berk. She is the editor of four anthologies for teens, DEFY THE DARK, ALL OUT, OUT NOW and the forthcoming OUT THERE. She always picks truth; dares are too easy.