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LGBTQ+ Kids & Teens Spring 2025 |
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Joyful song : a naming story
by Leslea Newman
Beyond excited for his baby sister's naming ceremony in the temple, Zachary and his moms invite each neighbor to come along until it's finally time for him to reveal his sister's name—a truly joyful moment for everyone!
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Bobby and the big valentine
by Timmy Woitas
Bobby and Eddie do everything together, and when Bobby starts to have feelings for Eddie beyond friendship, he plans to reveal them on Valentine's Day with a specially crafted valentine.
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Queer and fearless : poems celebrating the lives of LGBTQ+ heroes
by Rob Sanders
Young readers will learn about the lives and legacies of seventeen heroes of the queer community from both past and present. A perfect introduction to the people who have stood up for what they believed in, lived lives according to their own ideals, and their partners, friends, and allies, the poetry in this book provides great read-aloud potential sure to entertain and inform readers of all ages.
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The ribbon skirt
by Cameron Mukwa
A two-spirit, nonbinary 10-year-old, Anang sets out to make a ribbon skirt, a piece of clothing typically worn by girls in the Anishinaabe tradition, for an upcoming powwow, finding support, community and confidence along the way.
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The curse of Eelgrass Bog
by Mary Averling
Dark secrets and unnatural magic abound when a twelve-year-old girl ventures into a bog full of monsters to break a mysterious curse.
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A world worth saving
by Kyle Lukoff
A's parents drag him to weekly meetings where parents deadname A and his trans friends, but A discovers the meeting is run by a demon feeding off kids' misery, in a story intertwining Jewish mythology with the impacts of transphobia.
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School for invisible boys
by Shaun David Hutchinson
While at St. Lawrence's Catholic School for Boys, Hector Griggs, who has the ability to turn invisible, teams up with a mysterious new classmate to stop a terrifying creature preying on students' loneliness and fear and discovers that sometimes it takes disappearing to really be seen.
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Libertad
by Bessie Flores Zaldívar
In 2017 Honduras, as the 2017 presidential election looms, queer high school senior Libertad faces homophobia at home and school and threats to her political poetry online, and when tragedy strikes, she must speak her truth or leave the only home she's ever known.
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The romantic tragedies of a drama king
by Harry Trevaldwyn
When two new boys join the drama club, sixteen-year-old English Patch boldly exerts his charm in an attempt to acquire his first boyfriend.
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Flyboy
by Kasey LeBlanc
After an incident at his school leaves closeted trans teenager Asher Sullivan needing stitches, his mother betrays him in the worst possible way--she sends him to Catholic school for his senior year. Nighttime brings an escape for Asher when he dreams of the Midnight Circus--the one place where he is seen for the boy he truly is. Too bad it exists only in his sleep. At least, that's what he believes until the day his attractive trapeze rival, Apollo, walks out of his dreams and into his classroom. On the heels of this realization that the magical circus might be real, Asher must decide how far he'll go to preserve the magical circus, even if it means facing his biggest challenge yet--coming out.
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Monster crush
by Erin Ellie Franey
Ruby Reid has been having a tough time at Crestwood High, but everything changes when cool new girl Ella Mooney moves to town, and the pair find themselves on the run from a mysterious group that wants to capture Ella--who occasionally grows fangs and a tail--and her whole family.
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Mismatched : a modern graphic retelling of Emma
by Anne Camlin
An Insta influencer with a not-so-secret flair for matchmaking, Evan Horowitz sets his sights on the shy new girl Natalia, but when he takes things too far with unforeseen consequences, he must learn to put the people closest to him ahead of his misguided ambition.
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Knucklehead : poems
by Tony Keith
The author pens a love letter to Black boys and men he affectionately calls “knuckleheads,” in a collection of poems that affirms the many forms of Black masculinity and promotes self-discovery through history, family, friendship and falling in love.
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