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LGBTQ+ Kids & Teens June / July 2023 |
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This day in June
by Gayle E. Pitman
A picture book illustrating a Pride parade. The end matter serves as a primer on LGBT history and culture and explains the references made in the story.
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Tâeo's tutu
by Maryann Jacob Macias
Celebrating gender-creativity, the joy of dance and being yourself, this story follows Teo as he picks out a super sparkly outfit to wear in the big dance recital, but then wonders if it will put him too much in the spotlight.
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Camp QUILTBAG
by Nicole Melleby
After a bit of a rocky start at Camp QUILTBAG, an inclusive retreat for queer and trans kids, Abigail and Kai make a pact to help each other find their footing, all while navigating crushes, their queer identities, and a competition pitting cabin against cabin.
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The girl from Earth's end
by Tara Dairman
To save her father, 12-year-old Henna, a gifted gardener, attends St. Basil's Conservatory, a botanical boarding school rumored to house a legendary, long-extinct plant with miraculous healing powers, and while searching for the seeds, Henna learns to flourish with a little help from her newfound friends.
Available on Cloud Library
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The sun and the star : a Nico di Angelo adventure
by Rick Riordan
Demigods Nico di Angelo, the son of Hades, and Will Solace, the son of Apollo, find their relationship tested to the core as they endure the terrors of Tartarus, the lowest part of the Underworld, to save an old friend.
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Never ever getting back together
by Sophie Gonzales
Eighteen-year-old Maya Bailey enters a reality dating competition to get revenge on her cheating, royal-adjacent ex-boyfriend, and she ends up falling for another girl on the show--in fact, the girl he cheated on her with.
Available on Cloud Library
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Friday I'm in love
by Camryn Garrett
Deciding to throw herself an epic coming out party with singing, dancing and rainbow cake, 16-year-old Mahalia Harris finds herself buried in a mountain of bills, unfinished schoolwork and enough drama that could end her party before it even begins.
Available on Overdrive/Libby and Cloud Library
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A tale of two princes
by Eric Geron
When long-lost twins Edward, a closeted prince, and Billy, an out-and-proud cowboy, meet by chance in New York City, their lives are forever changed as they each come to terms with who they really are and what they really want.
Available on hoopla and Cloud Library
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Acting the part
by ZR Ellor
Playing a lesbian warrior on a hit TV show, queer actor Lily Ashton orchestrates a fake-dating scheme to save their on-screen love interest from being killed off while coming to terms with their own gender identity.
Available on Cloud Library
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The many half-lived lives of Sam Sylvester
by Maya MacGregor
An autistic nonbinary eighteen-year-old moves to a new town and school with the support of their loving father and finds friends in an LGBTQ-plus club, but they all must come together to solve the decades-old murder of a teenage boy and confront the demons lurking in Sam's past.
Available on Overdrive and Cloud Library
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