Everything you need to understand or teach What I Know Now by Rodger Larson.
What I Know Now is a novel about Dave Ryan, a fourteen-year-old boy who falls in love with a man who comes to his house to build a garden, and about the experience of growing up and learning about love and self-acceptance. It is a coming-of-age novel, and it details Dave's struggles during the summer of 1957 to understand his sexual and emotional self. Dave is probably gay, though Larson never says that directly...