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  Publication Date:  August 28 2018 Format:  Kindle Genre:   YA, LGBTQ, Publisher:  Scholastic Length:  352  pages Buy:    Kindle  |  Paperback Synopsis In the companion to  Openly Straight , Ben confronts pressure at school, repression at home, and his passion for two very different people in figuring out what it takes to be  Honestly Ben . Ben Carver is back to normal. He's working steadily in his classes at the Natick School. He just got elected captain of the baseball team. He's even won a full scholarship to college, if he can keep up his grades. All that foolishness with Rafe Goldberg the past semester is in the past.Except...There's Hannah, the gorgeous girl from the neighboring school, who attracts him and ...

Publication Date:  May 28 2013 Format:  Kindle Genre:   YA, LGBTQ, Publisher:  Scholastic Length:  339  pages Buy:    Kindle  |  Paperback Synopsis Rafe is a normal teenager from Boulder, Colorado. He plays soccer. He's won skiing prizes. He likes to write.And, oh yeah, he's gay. He's been out since 8th grade, and he isn't teased, and he goes to other high schools and talks about tolerance and stuff. And while that's important, all Rafe really wants is to just be a regular guy. Not that GAY guy. To have it be a part of who he is, but not the headline, every single time.So when he transfers to an all-boys' boarding school in New England, he decides to keep his sexuality a secret -- not so much going back in the closet as starting over with a clean sla...