YA book question - asexuality

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I promised some folks in a panel the other day that I'd ask here.

Does anyone know of any YA books with asexual characters or plot themes. Not non-sexual/non-romantic, although the recs might be welcome, but asexual.

Thanks!

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Thanks again for asking your flist for me. The more I look into this, the more I realize I'm going to have to write this for myself (or find someone I can bully into writing it for me, heh). It looks like most of the books recced are about characters who went through some kind of trauma (abuse, rape, molestation) that turned them off sex, which is a really big issue in the asexual community (both in the "a lot of people have gone through this" sense and the "everyone thinks this is why we are all not into sex, which is untrue" sense). I'm definitely looking for more of an asexual coming-of-age story, although asexual/non-sexual (and aromantic/non-romantic) characters are also of interest, even if they never identify themselves as such. (And there is a short list of recs here (http://www.asexuality.org/en/index.php?showtopic=9289), although it seems to be totally lacking in YA and is more "here are some characters who don't have sex" than anything else.)

And if you have any other readers looking for more info on asexualty besides the comm and AVEN (http://www.asexuality.org/home/), I can't rec glad_to_be_a enough. She's very articulate and comfortable talking about her sexuality (and explaining it, as the need arises), which, to me, is almost as good as having a book.