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Surprising Myself

Published
May 1987
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General Fiction General Fiction
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424

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Seventeen-year-old Joel can''t be gay if he''s straight

After four years of living with relatives in Switzerland, 17-year-old Joel Scherzenlieb finds himself in the United States for the summer, working at a Boy Scout camp. There, he meets 19-year-old Corey Cobbett, a fellow counselor and the only person Joel wants to be friends with. Soon, Joel''s sarcastic, distant CIA father shows up and whisks him away to live with his mother, grandmother, and older sister on a farm in Virginia - he''s not going back to Switzerland after all. As his father pleads poverty and his dreams of going to college vanish, Joel faces his longest year yet. But everything changes when Corey returns to his life, bringing with him the discovery and excitement of reciprocal love.

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Jun 1988 Henry Holt ISBN 0805006699
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First Edition May 1987 Dutton ISBN 1556110073
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Jun 2013 Open Road Publishing ISBN B00COWLYZ2
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Jun 2013 Open Road Publishing ISBN 148042451X
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