Baby Be-Bop

Francesca Lia Block

1995 • 112 pages

Ratings5

Average rating3.6

Dirk MacDonald, a sixteen-year-old boy living in Los Angeles, comes to terms with being gay after he receives surreal storytelling visitations from his dead father and great-grandmother.

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6 primary books7 released books

Weetzie Bat

Weetzie Bat is a 7-book series with 6 primary works first released in 1989 with contributions by Francesca Lia Block.

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Blue sky, green trees.

Not as good as the other Weetzie Bat books. The amount of magic is jacked way up to compensate for a less developed main character, and this basically takes over and obscures the plot.

July 19, 2015

Ryan

I was inspired to give this one a look after reading this story in the Guardian: http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2009/jun/12/christian-group-sues-burn-gay-teen-novel

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