Inexplicable Logic of My Life, The

This contemporary coming of age story follows Sal during his final year of school. He worries he isn’t yet a man, struggles with his identity, and isn’t ready for the real world. His friends have their own personal struggles, too, and the story focuses on the various emotions, how they help each other, and finally understand that life is simply inexplicable. The book deals with identity, sexual orientation, friendship, loss, poverty, bias, and a-typical families. Students in grades 8-12 will enjoy this fast-paced story with identifiable characters, which lends itself to an array of classroom activities, including role playing, rewriting scenes, and researching treatment of LGBTQ students.