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Here are some of our favorite LGBTQ+ books! These titles are classified as Teen High School (TH) and can be found in the Teen section of the library, unless otherwise noted. |
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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.
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The Heartbreak Bakery
by A. R. Capetta
Syd, a baker at the Proud Muffin, is perplexed after couples who eat Syd's brownies immediately split up, but when the owners of the bakery eat the brownies, Syd is afraid the bakery may close and it is only Harley, a delivery person, who convinces Syd that baking can actually fix things.
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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.
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The Well
by Jacob Wyatt
Stealing coins from a sacred well to cover a debt, Li-Zhen must uncover hidden memories, bestow great wealth, and face the magical secrets that threaten everything she has ever known when the well requires payment in the form of wishes. This title is in the Teen Graphic Novel collection.
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I Kissed Shara Wheeler
by Casey McQuiston
When her rival, prom queen Shara Wheeler, kisses her and disappears, leaving behind cryptic notes, Chloe Green hunts for answers and discovers there is more to this small town than she thought and maybe more to Shara, as well.
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The Sky Blues
by Robbie Couch
Organizing an over-the-top invitation to ask his crush to the prom, an openly gay high school senior is targeted by an anonymous homophobic viral e-blast, before friends encourage him to fight back by exposing his attacker.
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Indivisible
by Daniel Aleman
An American-born teen and his younger sister scramble to keep their family together when they return home from school one day to find that their undocumented parents have been arrested by ICE and are facing possible deportation.
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The Taking of Jake Livingston
by Ryan Douglass
When a murderous ghost begins to haunt sixteen-year-old Jake Livingston, high school soon becomes a different kind of survival game.
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She's Too Pretty to Burn
by Wendy Heard
A provocative but uninspired photographer and her best friend, a passionate performance artist, endure a brutal summer marked by an all-consuming relationship, a fire, two murders, and three suspicious drownings.
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Can't Take That Away
by Steven Salvatore
When Carey Parker, a genderqueer teen who dreams of being a diva like their hero Mariah Carey, is cast as the female lead in the school musical, they must fight against discrimination and injustice from their closed-minded school administration.
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The Summer of Everything
by Julian Winters
In the summer between high school and college, Wes Hudson juggles his dream job at a local independent bookstore, his family pestering him to choose an academic major, and pining after his best friend, Nico.
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The Magic Fish
by Trung Le Nguyen
Real life isn't a fairytale. But Tiâên 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 Tiâên, 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?
This title can be found in Teen Graphic Novels
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Love, Creekwood: A Simonverse Novella
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Becky Albertalli
It's been more than a year since Simon and Blue turned their anonymous online flirtation into an IRL relationship and just a few months since Abby and Leah's unforgettable night at senior prom. Now the Creekwood High crew are first years at different colleges, navigating friendship and romance the way their story began--on email.
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The Extraordinaries
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TJ Klune
A successful fan-fiction writer has a chance encounter with a superhero crush who challenges him to remake himself in ways that compromise his bond with a best friend, who is becoming something more.
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Carry On : The Rise and Fall of Simon Snow
by Rainbow Rowell
During his last year at Watford School of Magicks, Simon Snow, the Chosen One, faces a magic-eating monster wearing his face, a break-up, and a missing nemesis.
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Verona Comics
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Jennifer Dugan
Meeting at a comic convention prom, the cellist daughter of an indie comic shop owner and the disgraced son of comic superstore titans navigate a secret romance that is complicated by anxiety, their feuding parents, and an approaching audition.
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Once & Future
by A. R. Capetta
Resets the Arthurian legend in outer space with King Arthur reincarnated as seventeen-year-old Ari, a female king whose quest is to stop a tyranical corporate government, aided by a teenaged Merlin.
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Only Mostly Devastated
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Sophie Gonzales
When his aunt's illness keeps Ollie in North Carolina, he hopes his summer fling with Will can grow into something more, but at school Will proves to be a completely different--and firmly closeted--person.
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I Wish You All the Best
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Mason Deaver
Thrown out of their parents' home and moving in with their estranged sister after coming out as nonbinary, Ben De Backer struggles to endure an anxiety disorder and the last half of senior year while bonding with a charismatic new friend.
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Like a Love Story
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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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