Heartless

Teenage Olympic running hopeful Calvin Granger arrives in his new town angry about changing schoolsagainand sad about leaving his boyfriend behind. Then he meets skittish cyclist Bill Moilet, and soon strange dreams and thoughts of Bill distract Calvin from his misery… until Calvin breaks his leg and his Olympic ambitions crumble.

Cals injury does have one upside: it brings him closer to Bill, who offers to help him out while hes recovering. But whenever they start to get too close, Bill clams up or disappears. To add to Cals frustration, living with a full-leg cast proves to be a miserable experience.

When Bill finally begins to open up to Cal, the strange dreams become more vividdreams, Cal learns, that they share. Can the boys decipher what their subconscious minds are trying to tell them, or is history doomed to repeat itself?

Soon-to-be high school junior David Harper hates his familys move to the country. Theres nothing to do, and he misses his friends in the city. But he doesnt have a choice. His mothers job is in Mason County now, so David and his mom are too, and he has to make the best of it.

At first, the only redeeming feature of Davids new home is the swimming hole across the field from his house. Then David meets Benjamin Killinger, and suddenly life stops being so dull.

Benjamin is Amish, and cooling off in the swimming hole is one of the few liberties he and his brothers enjoy. A friendship with an English boy is notbut that doesnt stop him and David from getting to know each other, as long as it's on the neutral ground by the creek. After David risks his life to save Benjamins father, the boys friendship is tolerated, then accepted. But before long, Benjamins feelings for David grow beyond the platonic. Benjamin's family and the rest of the community will never allow a love like that, and a secret this big cant stay secret forever….

Kyle Stilleno is the invisible student, toiling through high school in the middle of Nowhere, Texas. Brad Greymark is the baseball star of Foster High. When they bond over their mutual damage during a night of history tutoring, Kyle thinks maybe his life has changed for good. But the promise of fairy-tale love is a lie when youre gay and falling for the most popular boy in school. A coming of age story in the same vein of John Hughes, Tales from Foster High shows an unflinching vision of the ups and downs of teenage love and what it is like to grow up gay.

For Sean Jackson, sixteen is off to an inauspicious start. His options: take a landscaping job in Georgia with his father, or stay in his small New Hampshire hometown, where the only place hiring is the local ice cream shop. Donning a pink t-shirt to scoop sundaes for tourists and seniors promises to be a colder, stickier version of hell. Still, he opts to stay home.

On his first day at work, Sean meets Becky, a wickedly funny New York transplant. The store manager, Jay, is eighteen, effortlessly cool, and according to Becky, "likes" Sean the way Sean's starting to like him. But before he can clear a path to the world that's waiting, Sean will have to deal with his overprotective mother, his sweet, popular girlfriend, Lisa, his absentee father, and all his own uncertainties and budding confusions.

Tender and achingly funny, this coming-of-age story will resonate with anyone who is--or has ever been--a teenager, when the only thing you can count on is how little you really know, and the next glance, or touch, or breathless night can be the one that changes everything. . .

"Woodward writes from the heart--a genuine, honest story about the joys and pains of first love, and realizing that no one is as alone as it sometimes seems." Robin Reardon

"A touching story about navigating the sometimes treacherous waters of first love."--J.H. Trumble

The Most Popular Guy Trilogy: Book One

High school can be some of the best years of lifeand some of the toughest. Mark Mitchell's strategy for surviving is to emulate the mighty turtle: pull back inside his protective shell and keep a low profile to avoid trouble. And it worksnobody bothers him. Of course, nobody really knows him, either, even in a town so small it seems like everybody must know everyone else.

Mark certainly knows Bill Cromwell, whom he meets officially when his father volunteers him for manual labor at the school. Bill is his polar opposite: outgoing, gregarious, athletic. But when a massive snowstorm traps the two boys together for three days, Mark learns that being popular doesnt mean you cant be bullied or abusedor gayand that bullying doesnt stop at the school doors.

Mark isnt naïve. Hes seen the news reports of gay teen suicides, and hes determined not to become a statistic. But its not himself hes worried about.

Allie’s been in a relationship with a guy for the last two years—but when she meets Kimiko, she can’t get her out of her mind. Does this mean she’s gay? Or bi? Kimiko, falling hard for Allie, is willing to stick around and help Allie figure it out.