The Ship We Built
By: Lexie Bean
4.22
Format: 287 pages, Kindle Edition
Tender and wise, The Ship We Built is about the bravery it takes to stand up for yourself--even to …
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1. Running Out of Time
By: Margaret Peterson Haddix
3.99
Format: 184 pages, Paperback
Jessie lives with her family in the frontier village of Clifton, Indiana. When diphtheria strikes t… read more
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- childrens
- realistic fiction
- middle grade
- young adult
- fiction
2. When the Moon Was Ours
By: Anna-Marie McLemore
3.89
Format: 273 pages, Hardcover
To everyone who knows them, best friends Miel and Sam are as strange as they are inseparable. Roses… read more
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- transgender
- lgbt
- young adult
- fiction
- contemporary
- queer
"No boy was ever so interesting to them as when he was interesting to someone else."-Anna-Marie McLemore, When the Moon Was Ours
"She wanted you to have the life you wanted,' Aracely said. 'So figure out what kind of life you want."-Anna-Marie McLemore, When the Moon Was Ours
"He wanted to be a girl who wanted to be a girl, or a boy who was, in a way no one could question, a boy."-Anna-Marie McLemore, When the Moon Was Ours
"They're expected to forget everything they knew about being anything other than what they're supposed to be."-Anna-Marie McLemore, When the Moon Was Ours
3. You're Welcome, Universe
By: Whitney Gardner
4.16
Format: None pages, Hardcover
When Julia finds a slur about her best friend scrawled across the back of the Kingston School for t… read more
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4. Coffee Boy
By: Austin Chant
4.32
Format: 80 pages, ebook
After graduation, Kieran expected to go straight into a career of flipping burgers--only to be offe… read more
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5. Melissa
By: Alex Gino
4.10
Format: 213 pages, Kindle Edition
When people look at George, they think they see a boy. But she knows she's not a boy. She knows she… read more
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- audiobook
- childrens
- lgbt
- realistic fiction
- middle grade
- young adult
- fiction
- contemporary
- queer
"Girl problems?"-Alex Gino, Melissa
"My dad’s cleaning!"-Alex Gino, Melissa
"Some of us take death very seriously."-Alex Gino, Melissa
"I still don’t see why I can’t just take the next bus,"-Alex Gino, Melissa
6. Camp QUILTBAG
By: Nicole Melleby
4.10
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
From the acclaimed authors of Hurricane Season and Ana on the Edge, an unforgettable story about th… read more
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- audiobook
- transgender
- lgbt
- realistic fiction
- middle grade
- fiction
- contemporary
- queer
7. Too Bright to See
By: Kyle Lukoff
4.13
Format: 192 pages, Kindle Edition
A haunting ghost story about navigating grief, growing up, and growing into a new gender identity … read more
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- audiobook
- lgbt
- realistic fiction
- middle grade
- young adult
- fiction
- queer
"I've only known what that truth is for a morning, but can't imagine waiting another second to start the rest of my life as myself."-Kyle Lukoff, Too Bright to See
8. Bitter (Pet, #0.5)
By: Akwaeke Emezi
4.12
Format: 272 pages, ebook
Bitter is thrilled to have been chosen to attend Eucalyptus, a special school where she can focus o… read more
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- audiobook
- lgbt
- young adult
- fiction
- contemporary
- queer
"Miss Virtue looked amused. "How do you know your way is the right way?" "I don't. But we moving with love, and I figure that can't be wrong."-Akwaeke Emezi, Bitter (Pet, #0.5)
"The foster parents had said that she would end up nowhere, then you could make up wherever you wanted to be, you could make it real. You could, for example, paint it into existence."-Akwaeke Emezi, Bitter (Pet, #0.5)
"Bitter had no interest in the revolution. She was seventeen and she thought it was ridiculous that adults wanted young people to be the ones saving the world, as if her generation was the one that ha…"-Akwaeke Emezi, Bitter (Pet, #0.5)
9. Welcome to St. Hell: My Trans Teen Misadventure (St. Hell, #1)
By: Lewis Hancox
4.28
Format: 304 pages, Paperback
A groundbreaking memoir about being a trans teen, in the vein of FUN HOME and FLAMER... and at the … read more
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- lgbt
- transgender
- queer
10. Paper Planes
By: Jennie Wood
3.66
Format: 216 pages, Paperback
After a life altering incident, Dylan and Leighton are sent to a summer camp for troubled youth. Ca… read more
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- lgbt
- realistic fiction
- young adult
- fiction
- contemporary
- queer
11. Falling Out of Time (Running Out of Time, 2)
By: Margaret Peterson Haddix
3.68
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
Return to the world of the bestselling Running Out of Time with this middle grade thriller from Mar… read more
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- fiction
- middle grade
- childrens
- young adult
12. Bury Your Gays
By: Chuck Tingle
4.29
Format: 295 pages, Hardcover
From Chuck Tingle, author of the USA Today bestselling Camp Damascus, comes a new heart-pounding st… read more
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- queer
- lgbt
- fiction
- contemporary
- audiobook
"The studio might be a ruthless capitalist machine," he opines, "but we're not evil."-Chuck Tingle, Bury Your Gays
"Your stories aren't worth your life." My stories are my life, I think, but I don't say this."-Chuck Tingle, Bury Your Gays
"I'm honestly kind of surprised. You've got a flair for drama, Misha. I thought you might get hard over some final sacrifice for love, or whatever. I mean, you're the writer, not me, but that's got Em…"-Chuck Tingle, Bury Your Gays
"The path I've been led down is one of senseless catastrophe, a classic Hollywood tale of the man who plummets to rock bottom just moments before he would have crested the peak. [...] I'm living out t…"-Chuck Tingle, Bury Your Gays
13. Both Can Be True
By: Jules Machias
4.04
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
Two kids join forces to save a dog . . . but wind up saving each other. Ash is no stranger to fe… read more
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- audiobook
- transgender
- lgbt
- realistic fiction
- middle grade
- young adult
- fiction
- contemporary
- queer
"Gender nonbinary sounds so restrictive. Like your gender can either be binary or not binary. Which...is a binary"-Jules Machias, Both Can Be True
"I finish tweaking my lyrics, then title the song 'Half-way Through the Crossfade.' I record myself playing it on the keyboard and singing it. It feels good. It feels right .I'm saying my truth, and I…"-Jules Machias, Both Can Be True
"I want to be as laid-back about gender as they are. But I'm not laid-back at all, thanks to Dad. I'm Ashley or I'm Asher and that's that. While I'm switching, for that week or so, everything feels gr…"-Jules Machias, Both Can Be True
14. Icarus
By: K. Ancrum
4.08
Format: 382 pages, Hardcover
Perfect for fans of Adam Silvera and Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe, this… read more
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- audiobook
- lgbt
- young adult
- fiction
- contemporary
- queer
15. Zenobia July
By: Lisa Bunker
4.10
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
The critically acclaimed author of Felix Yz crafts a bold, heartfelt story about a trans girl solvi… read more
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- audiobook
- transgender
- lgbt
- realistic fiction
- middle grade
- young adult
- fiction
- contemporary
- queer
16. Thanks a Lot, Universe (Thanks a Lot, Universe, #1)
By: Chad Lucas
4.22
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
A moving middle-grade debut for anyone who’s ever felt like they don’t belong. Brian has always … read more
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- audiobook
- lgbt
- realistic fiction
- middle grade
- young adult
- fiction
- contemporary
- queer
"And mayonnaise is the whitest food."-Chad Lucas, Thanks a Lot, Universe (Thanks a Lot, Universe, #1)
"...you can love someone an awful lot and hurt them all the same"-Chad Lucas, Thanks a Lot, Universe (Thanks a Lot, Universe, #1)
"What? Oh.’ My cheeks went warm. ‘I did it without thinking..’ Mom smiled. ‘I know. You do that sometimes, until you get self-conscious and stop. But you don’t need to hide the things that make you ha…"-Chad Lucas, Thanks a Lot, Universe (Thanks a Lot, Universe, #1)
17. My Dear Henry: A Jekyll & Hyde Remix (Remixed Classics)
By: Kalynn Bayron
3.86
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
In this gothic YA remix of Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde, a teen boy tries to discover the reason behind hi… read more
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- fiction
- lgbt
- young adult
- queer
18. Self-Made Boys: A Great Gatsby Remix
By: Anna-Marie McLemore
4.09
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
New York City, 1922. Nicolás Caraveo, a 17-year-old transgender boy from Minnesota, has no interest… read more
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- audiobook
- transgender
- lgbt
- young adult
- fiction
- queer
"We were boys who had created ourselves. We had formed our own bodies, our own lives, from the ribs of the girls we were once assumed to be."-Anna-Marie McLemore, Self-Made Boys: A Great Gatsby Remix
"Gatsby and I may have been nothing to men like Tom Buchanan, but men like that did not know we were as divine as the heavens. We were boys who had created ourselves. We had formed our own bodies, our…"-Anna-Marie McLemore, Self-Made Boys: A Great Gatsby Remix
"There's no use denying that I fell a little bit in love with Jay, at least as much in love as I've ever been with any body. You see, Nicky, boys are always falling in love with me, but I don't fall m…"-Anna-Marie McLemore, Self-Made Boys: A Great Gatsby Remix
19. Dear Mothman
By: Robin Gow
4.25
Format: 313 pages, Hardcover
Poet and author Robin Gow’s moving middle-grade novel in verse Dear Mothman is about a young trans … read more
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- audiobook
- transgender
- lgbt
- middle grade
- young adult
- fiction
- contemporary
- queer
20. The Ship We Built
By: Lexie Bean
4.22
Format: 287 pages, Kindle Edition
Tender and wise, The Ship We Built is about the bravery it takes to stand up for yourself--even to … read more
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- audiobook
- childrens
- transgender
- lgbt
- realistic fiction
- middle grade
- young adult
- fiction
- contemporary
- queer
21. From the Dark We Came
By: J. Emery
3.77
Format: 134 pages, ebook
Belar has made lying into an art form. His neighbors know him as a mild mannered music teacher, but… read more
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- lgbt
- fiction
- queer
