Out of the Pocket by Bill Konisberg has won the 2009 Lambda Award for Best LGBT Children's/Young Adult Book.
The Lambda Literary Awards seek to recognize excellence in the field of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender literature. Each year, over 80 judges - writers, booksellers, librarians, journalists - assess the entries in more than 20 categories.
Out of the Pocket tells the story of Bobby Framingham, quarterback of his high school football team. Bobby finally acknowledges to himself that he is gay and events start to spin out of control when his sexual orientation is revealed in the student newspaper and then in the local press, and he learns that his father has cancer.
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