by Angie Manfredi Last year, I chose Alex London’s YA dystopian thriller Proxy as my teen book club’s selection. This meant my library would purchase multiple copies, many teens would read it, and then we would Skype with Alex to talk about it.  Why did I choose Proxy?  Well, partially because it’s superb YA:  a well-written, engaging, fast-paced read that asks interesting questions about debt and income inequality.  But I also partially chose it because it has a gay, biracial lead character and the author is a gay man.  I wanted my teen readers to experience a swashbuckling [...]