Love & Sex

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

Author: Michael Cart
Publisher: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Published: 01/01/2003
Pages: 240
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.68lbs
Size: 8.49h x 5.50w x 0.59d
ISBN: 9780689856686

Accelerated Reader:
Reading Level: 5.5
Point Value: 8
Interest Level: Upper Grade
Quiz #/Name: 57928 / Love & Sex: Ten Stories of Truth

Award: Rhode Island Teen Book Award - Nominee

Review Citation(s):
PW Notes and Reprints 12/23/2002 pg. 73
Kliatt 03/01/2003 pg. 37
Publishers Weekly 12/23/2002