All of the stories in Bauer's collection concern teens who question sexuality, their own or someone else's, but each story has a particular view of this complex theme. Reading these stories is like flipping through a scrapbook or photograph album: each story is a small, individual snapshot of a much larger story of teens coming to grips with the difficult subject of sexuality.

Bruce Coville's title story, "Am I Blue?," sets the broad parameters of the fifteen stories that follow. Vincent, the teen narrator of the story, begins by telling how Butch Corrigan has beaten him up for being "a little fruit." Vincent is a "confused puppy" about his sexuality, as the other major character in the story, Melvin, tells him. Melvin is Vince's "fairy godfather," the first one ever, and he has the power to grant Vince three wishes.

Melvin is a guardian...