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Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Books for Teens PRIDE MONTH FOR YOUNG ADULTS
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Heartstopper. Volume 1
by Alice Oseman
Shy and softhearted Charlie strikes up a friendship with rugby player Nick, and as the two grow closer and take on the ups and downs of high school, their friendship grows into something more.
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Cheer up! : love and pompoms
by Crystal Frasier
"Annie is a smart, antisocial lesbian starting her senior year of high school who's under pressure to join the cheerleader squad to make friends and round out her college applications. Her former friend BeBe is a people-pleaser, a trans girl who must keep her parents happy with her grades and social life to keep their support of her transition. Through the rigors of squad training and amped up social pressures...the two girls rekindle a friendship they thought they'd lost"
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Laura Dean keeps breaking up with me
by Mariko Tamaki
Upset about her on-again, off-again relationship with her girlfriend Laura Dean, Freddy Riley depends on her friends, a local mystic, and a relationship columnist for help in dealing with her situation
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Flamer
by Mike Curato
In the summer between middle school and high school, Aiden Navarro is away at camp where he navigates friendships, deals with bullies, and spends time with Elias (a boy he can not stop thinking about), he finds himself on a path of self-discovery and acceptance
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On a sunbeam
by Tillie Walden
Interweaves the story of a crew traveling into deep space to rebuild beautiful, broken structures, with that of a pair of teen girls who meet at boarding school and fall deeply in love.
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The magic fish
by Trung Le Nguyen
Real life isn't a fairytale. But Tiến still enjoys reading his favorite stories with his parents from the books he borrows from the local library. It's hard enough trying to communicate with your parents as a kid, but for Tiến, he doesn't even have the right words because his parents are struggling with their English. Is there a Vietnamese word for what he's going through? Is there a way to tell them he's gay?
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The girl from the sea
by Molly Ostertag
Fifteen-year-old Morgan has a secret: She can't wait to escape the perfect little island where she lives. Because really, Morgan's biggest secret is that she has a lot of secrets, including the one about wanting to kiss another girl. Then one night, Morgan is saved from drowning by a mysterious girl named Keltie. The two become friends and suddenly life on the island doesn't seem so stifling anymore. But Keltie has some secrets of her own.
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She drives me crazy
by Kelly Quindlen
Getting into a fender-bender with a beautiful rival after an embarrassing loss to her ex, a talented basketball athlete reluctantly agrees to a carpool arrangement before an opportunity for revenge leads to an unlikely relationship
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Running with lions
by Julian Winters
Sebastian Hughes, star goalie on the high school's soccer team, is looking forward to his senior year until his estranged childhood best friend, Emir Shah, shows up to summer training camp
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Loveless
by Alice Oseman
Georgia has parents who are still in love, two sets of grandparents that are still together, and a brother who married his girlfriend, but at eighteen she has never even kissed someone (not even her lesbian best friend, Felipa) or particularly even wanted to; at the prom afterparty she is surrounded by couples making out, and she really does not know what is wrong--but in college she comes to understand herself as asexual/aromantic, and to capture the part of her identity that has always eluded her
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The Sunbearer Trials
by Aiden Thomas
"Chosen to participate in The Sunbearer Trials, where the loser is sacrificed to refuel the Sun Stones, Teo, the 17-year-old trans son of the goddess of birds, must compete against more powerful and better trained opponents for fame, glory and his own survival. 100,000 first printing. Simultaneous eBook."
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Pet
by Akwaeke Emezi
In a near-future society that claims to have gotten rid of all monstrous people, a creature emerges from a painting seventeen-year-old Jam's mother created, a hunter from another world seeking a real-life monster
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Leah on the offbeat
by Becky Albertalli
With prom and graduation around the corner, senior Leah Burke struggles when her group of friends start fighting
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Hani and Ishu's guide to fake dating
by Adiba Jaigirdar
"Everyone likes Humaira 'Hani' Khan--she's easy going and one of the most popular girls at school. But when she comes out to her friends as bisexual, they invalidate her identity, saying she can't be bi if she's only dated guys. Panicked, Hani blurts outthat she's in a relationship...with a girl her friends absolutely hate--Ishita 'Ishu' Dey. She's an academic overachiever who hopes that becoming head girl will set her on the right track for college. Despite their mutually beneficial pact, they start developing real feelings for each other"
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Hot dog girl
by Jennifer Dugan
Determined to have an epic summer, Lou takes a job as a dancing hot dog at Magic Castle Playland and is disappointed when her best friend Seeley, the carousel operator, is less than enthusiastic about helping her steal her crush from another girl. A first novel. Simultaneous eBook.
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Bianca Torre is afraid of everything
by Justine Pucella Winans
Grappling with an ever-growing list of fears, nonbinary teen Bianca Torre, an avid birder, finds herself investigating the murder of her neighbor with the help of their best friend, their crush, and a fellow birding aficionado. 35,000 first printing. Simultaneous eBook.
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Act cool
by Tobly McSmith
Promising his parents he won't transition while attending the prestigious School of Performing Arts in New York, aspiring transgender actor August Greene must play the part his parents want while acting cool in front of his new friends. 40,000 first printing. Simultaneous eBook.
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Out of the blue
by Jason June
Told in alternating voices, Crest, a merperson, who grudgingly undergoes a mandatory sojourn to help a human within one moon cycle or risk staying on land forever, suddenly develops feelings for his beneficiary Sean, leaving them torn between two worlds.
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Felix ever after
by Kacen Callender
Felix Love, a transgender seventeen-year-old, attempts to get revenge by catfishing his anonymous bully, but lands in a quasi-love triangle with his former enemy and his best friend.
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I wish you all the best
by Mason Deaver
After coming out as nonbinary, Ben must leave home and goes to live with a sister and her husband to finish the last year of high school
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Kiss & tell
by Adib Khorram
On boy band Kiss & Tell's first major tour, lead singer Hunter Drake grapples with a painful breakup with his first boyfriend, his first rebound, and the stress of what it means to be queer in the public eye
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The Honeys
by Ryan La Sala
After his twin sister Caroline dies under horrific circumstances, Mars takes her place at the elite Aspen Conservancy Summer Academy where he finds himself hunted by something toying with his mind that leads him to the Honeys, a group of beautiful—and terrifying—girls. Simultaneous eBook.
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Ace of spades
by Faridah Àbíké-Íyímídé
Devon and Chiamaka, two Black students at an elite prep school, compete for valedictorian until anonymous texts reveal their darkest secrets, forcing the pair to fight back, as the cyberbully's game soon turns deadly
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Like a love story
by Abdi Nazemian
An Iranian youth who hides his sexual orientation from his family, an openly gay photographer and an aspiring fashion designer with an HIV-positive uncle fall in love and find their voices as activists during the height of the AIDS crisis in New York City.
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The disasters
by M. K. England
Nax and a handful of other space Academy washouts are the only surviving pilots after the school is hijacked by terrorists, but in order to spread the truth about the attack, Nax and his fellow failures must execute a dangerous heist
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So this is ever after
by F. T. Lukens
Assuming the role of King of Ere, Arek discovers there is a magical catch– choose a spouse by your 18th birthday, or wither away into nothing– and, with the help of his mage, desperately searches for the perfect candidate. 40,000 first printing. Simultaneous eBook.
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Last night at the Telegraph Club
by Malinda Lo
With the threat of deportation looming over her father--in spite of his hard-won citizenship and disavowal of Communism--seventeen-year-old American-born Chinese Lily Hu pursues a relationship with her Caucasian classmate Kath.
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Cinderella is dead
by Kalynn Bayron
Queer black girls team up to overthrow the patriarchy in the former kingdom of Cinderella.
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Girl, serpent, thorn
by Melissa Bashardoust
Soraya, a princess cursed to be poisonous to the touch, has lived eighteen years in the shadows but as her twin brother's wedding approaches, she faces choices with unimaginable consequences
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The best at it
by Maulik Pancholy
Twelve-year-old Rahul Kapoor, an Indian-American boy growing up in small-town Indiana, struggles to come to terms with his identity, including that he may be gay.
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Crier's war
by Nina Varela
An elite Automae who has discovered that she possesses a feared human emotion and a human girl seeking to avenge the death of her family forge an unexpected relationship that becomes a catalyst for war. 35,000 first printing. Simultaneous eBook.
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Crownchasers
by Rebecca Coffindaffer
A first entry in a planned duology finds a girl who longs for adventure away from the duties of her royal family confronting unexpectedly dangerous challenges when her dying uncle organizes a competition to determine the empire's next ruler. 40,000 first printing. Simultaneous eBook.
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Aces Wild : A Heist
by Amanda Dewitt
When his mother is sold out by a rival casino owner, Jack, the son of a Las Vegas casino mogul, infiltrates a high-stakes gambling club to discover the truth, while hopelessly navigating what it means to be in love while asexual. Simultaneous eBook.
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Summer bird blue
by Akemi Dawn Bowman
After her sister and songwriting partner, Lea, dies in an automobile accident, seventeen-year-old Rumi is sent to Hawaii with an aunt she barely knows while she and her mother grieve separately
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Yesterday is history
by Kosoko Jackson
Traveling back and forth in time after a life-saving surgery, Andre bonds with one boy from the 1960s and another from present-day Boston before confronting a difficult choice. A first novel. Simultaneous eBook.
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We set the dark on fire
by Tehlor Kay Mejia
A society wife-in-training has an uncomfortable awakening about her strictly polarized society after being recruited into a band of rebel spies and falling for her biggest rival. A first novel. 40,000 first printing. Simultaneous eBook.
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Always the almost : a novel
by Edward Underhill
"Determined to win the Midwest's biggest classical piano competition, 16-year-old trans boy Miles Jacobson finds himself distracted by the new boy in town, a proudly queer cartoonist who makes him feel like he's enough, instead of almost enough. 50,000 first printing. Simultaneous eBook. "
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Man o' war
by Cory McCarthy
While at a marine life theme park, River's encounter with a queer person lands him in the shark tank, which launches a journey of self-discovery, from internalized homophobia and gender dysphoria, through layers of coming out, affirmation surgery, and true love. Simultaneous eBook.
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She gets the girl
by Rachael Lippincott
When shy, awkward Molly Parker and outspoken Alex Blackwood devise a five-step plan to get the girls they like to fall for them, they both begin to wonder if maybe they are the ones falling... for each other
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She is a haunting
by Trang Thanh Tran
"Staying in Vietnam at the house her estranged father is restoring, Jade, plagued by sleep paralysis, bugs and a ghostly apparition, must expose the evil lurking in its walls before dark forces consume them all. 125,000 first printing. "
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The lesbiana's guide to Catholic school
by Sonora Reyes
Sixteen-year-old Mexican American Yami Flores starts Catholic school, determined to keep her brother out of trouble and keep herself closeted, but her priorities shift when Yami discovers that her openly gay classmate Bo is also annoyingly cute
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The Witch King
by H. E. Edgmon
Wyatt, a transgender witch, hides in the human world after he loses control of his magic, but his fiancâe, Emyr, a fae prince, is at risk of losing his throne if he does not find and marry Wyatt
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This book is gay
by Juno Dawson
A British author of teen fiction offers basic information about the gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender experience, including terms, religious issues, coming out, and sex acts, for people of all orientations, including the merely curious
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Messy Roots : A Graphic Memoir of a Wuhanese-american
by Laura Gao
Seamlessly toggling between past and present, this funny graphic memoir follows a queer Chinese American’s immigration to Texas where she just wants to make the basketball team, escape Chinese school and figure out why she is attracted to girls. 12,000 first printing. Simultaneous. Illustrations.
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All boys aren't blue : a memoir-manifesto
by George M. Johnson
A first book by the prominent journalist and LGBTQIA+ activist shares personal essays that chronicle his childhood, adolescence and college years as a Black queer youth, exploring subjects ranging from gender identity and toxic masculinity to structural marginalization and Black joy. Simultaneous eBook.
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Gender queer / : A Memoir
by Maia Kobabe
"In 2014, Maia Kobabe, who uses e/em/eir pronouns, thought that a comic of reading statistics would be the last autobiographical comic e would ever write. At the time, it was the only thing e felt comfortable with strangers knowing about em. Then e created Gender Queer. Maia's intensely cathartic autobiography charts eir journey of self-identity, which includes the mortification and confusion of adolescent crushes, grappling with how to come out to family and society, bonding with friends over erotic gayfan fiction, and facing the trauma and fundamental violation of pap smears. Started as a way to explain to eir family what it means to be nonbinary and asexual, Gender Queer is more than a personal story: It is a useful and touching guide on gender identity--what it means and how to think about it--for advocates, friends, and humans everywhere"
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