Boy Meets Boy
David Levithan, . . Knopf, $8.95 (185pp) ISBN 978-0-375-83299-4
This gay love story imagines a community where sexuality is not a source of conflict. In
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Reviewed on: 05/30/2005
Genre: Children's
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