Leave Myself Behind is the 2004 debut novel by American writer Bart Yates.

The plot centers on a seventeen-year-old gay boy, Noah York, and the process through which he goes as he discovers his sexuality and grows without his father.

[1][non-primary source needed] Kirkus Reviews called Leave Myself Behind "earnest and predictable: a good start but nothing special".

[3] In 2004, Leave Myself Behind received an Alex Award from the American Library Association.

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