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LGBTQ+ Kids & Teens November/December 2020
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Prince & knight
by Daniel Haack
A prince and a knight in shining armor find true love in each other's embrace after fighting a dragon together.
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What Riley wore
by Elana K Arnold
Gender-creative Riley knows just what to wear for every occasion during a busy week with family and friends.
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Jack (not Jackie)
by Erica Silverman
Susan loves her baby sister, Jackie, but as Jackie grows older and behaves more and more like a boy Susan must adjust to having a brother, Jack, instead
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Ivy Aberdeen's letter to the world
by Ashley Herring Blake
Twelve-year-old Ivy Aberdeen's house is destroyed in a tornado, and in the aftermath of the storm, she begins to develop feelings for another girl at school.
Available on Cloud Library
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Rick
by Alex Gino
Privately struggling with his best friend’s bullying personality and his father’s jokes about hot girls, a middle school student joins his new school’s Rainbow Spectrum club, where other kids of diverse gender identities help him find understanding and a sense of himself. By the award-winning author of George.
Available on hoopla, Overdrive, and Cloud Library
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The best at it
by Maulik Pancholy
Advised by his grandfather to find and master his purpose in life, an Indian American youth living in a small Indiana town struggles to identify his purpose while dodging a bully and learning about his sexual identity.
Available on Overdrive and Cloud Library
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Dark and deepest red
by Anna-Marie McLemore
Trapped in a pair of red shoes that compel her to dance uncontrollably, Rosella is drawn to a youth of questionable intent whose family was blamed for witchcraft centuries earlier. By the award-winning author of When the Moon Was Ours.
Available on Cloud Library
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The gravity of us
by Phil Stamper
When his volatile father is picked to become an astronaut for NASA's mission to Mars, seventeen-year-old Cal, an aspiring journalist, reluctantly moves from Brooklyn to Houston, Texas, and looks for a story to report, finding an ally (and crush) in Leon,the son of another astronaut.
Available on Overdrive and Cloud Library
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Darius the Great is not okay
by Adib Khorram
Clinically-depressed Darius Kellner, a high school sophomore, travels to Iran to meet his grandparents, but it is their next-door neighbor, Sohrab, who changes his life.
Available on Overdrive and Cloud Library
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We used to be friends
by Amy Spalding
At the start of their senior year in high school, James (a girl with a boy's name) and Kat are inseparable, but by graduation, they're no longer friends. James prepares to head off to college as she reflects on the dissolution of her friendship with Kat while, in alternating chapters, Kat thinks about being newly in love and having a future that feels wide open.
Available on hoopla, Overdrive, and Cloud Library
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19 love songs
by David Levithan
A collection of short love stories by the best-selling author of Every Day was inspired by the author’s tradition of writing for his friends every Valentine’s Day and includes a story set in the world of Two Boys Kissing.
Available on Cloud Library
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