Little & Lion
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Publication Year
2017
ISBN
9780316349000
Pages
327 pages
Genre
realism
Format
novel
Item Type
Fiction
Annotation
Suzette returns home to Los Angeles from boarding school and grapples with her bisexual identity when she and her [stepbrother] Lionel fall in love with the same girl, pushing Lionel's bipolar disorder to spin out of control and forcing Suzette to confront her own demons.
Grade Level
9-12
Lexile Measure
HL820L
Diversity Topics
Family Relationships; Racial Diversity; Culture/Ethnicity; LGBTQ (Gender and Sexuality); Disability and Health; Step parent; Interracial; Biethnic; Bisexuality; Mental illness; step father; step brother; interracial family; interracial parents; biethnic family; two ethnicities; bisexual teenager; bipolar disorder; bipolar II; teenager with a mental illness
Main Character
female teenager
Race/Ethnicities
Black / White
Family Formation
mother and step father
LGBTQ+
bisexual female
Awards
Cybils Awards, 2017, Nominee, Young Adult Fiction
Stonewall Book Award-Mike Morgan and Larry Romans Children's and Young Adult Literature Award, 2018, Winner, Children's (Young Adult Literature)
Best Children's Books of the Year, 2018 Ages 14 and Older
Booklist Editors' Choice: Books for Youth, 2017 Fiction for Older Readers
Kirkus Best Teen Books, 2017 Best Teen Romances
Rainbow List, 2018 Young Adult Fiction
YALSA Best Fiction for Young Adults, 2018 Young Adult Fiction
Keywords
siblings; romance; boarding school; summer; Jewish; Judaism; religious conversion; Los Angeles, California
Diversity Impact
direct
STARS Citation
Colbert, Brandy, "Little & Lion" (2017). Diverse Families. 1341.
https://stars.library.ucf.edu/diversefamilies/1341