Queer coming-of-age book will make your teen’s summer Camp by L.C. Rosen (Little, Brown 2020) $17.99; 374 pp. Sixteen-year-old Randall Kappelhoff had been thinking about his plan all winter.
This year at Camp Outland, a camp for queer teens, everything would be different. He’d cut his hair and change his name — no more “Randy,” he’d be “Del” at camp.
He’d act totally masc, sign up for sports and reluctantly give up performing in the annual play. And at the end of the four weeks, Hudson Aaronson-Lim would be Randy’s … um, Del’s … boyfriend.
He’d been hot for Hudson every summer for years. This plan had to work. And it does. At first. Hudson is everything Del wants: He’s solid, sweet and his kisses are ah-may-zing.