Ariel has dreams of leaving her southside Chicago neighborhood and making it big as a punk rocker with her best friends and bandmates, now that they've graduated from high school, but the realities of young adulthood make that challenging and strain…
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- Personal narrative, poetry, and illustrations meet in this nonfiction look at how past Black and Queer culture has defined the present and will continue to impact the future. This inspiring collection of biographies hopes to encourage teens today to…
- Lady Camembert wants to live life on her own terms, without marrying a man. But the law says that women cannot inherit. So when her father passes away, she disguises herself as a man and moves to the capital as Count Camembert. But when Princess…
- Jackson is gay, half Iranian, hearing impaired, his school's stage manager... and sort of falling for Liam. Liam is his friend, the swim team captain, white, and oh yeah, his sister's ex. His sister, who is wants his help making a list of her Liam's…
- Phoebe is newest kid at school, new to Los Angeles, and newly transitioned. She's just trying to blend in while she figures out exactly who she is. But with her mom gone, her dad adjusting to a daughter, and no guidebook on how to be a girl, that…
- After a scandal ended her pop-star career, Sunny longs for her former life and her ex-BFF and groupmate Candie. When she hears Candie will be in town for a k-pop competition, Sunny wants to figure out what happened the night Mina, the third in their…
- Jay Wong is spending the summer of 2010 trying to land a kickflip and hoping senior year will be more interesting. Then she meets Ash, who is confident, intensely independent, and hell on a skateboard - exactly who she wants to be. Ash introduces…
- Long-time rivals Emma and Caleb find themselves both chasing Juliet and decide to compete for her affection, but Juliet is more interested in hanging out with both of them, which leads to complicated feelings and the reopening of old wounds from…
- In the future, most of humanity lives on a remote alien planet where superpowers aren't uncommon. Oberon's whole life seems to be spiraling --dropping out of university, breaking up with his boyfriend, and now the ability to conjure his dreams in…
- Moud is a gay teen living in Los Angeles with his distant father, Saeed. Moud accompanies him to Tehran to visit his dying grandfather, where family secrets give him a new understanding of his history, his culture, and himself. 1978. Saeed is a…
- Jay is a soft soul in a world of concrete. He can't believe he caught the eye of Leroy, who could have anyone. But whispers over the murder of a Black journalist and long-brewing territory tensions hang like a dark cloud over his neighborhood.…
- Mar is a transmasculine nonbinary teen pirate hiding a magical ability to manipulate fire and ice. But their magic isn't enough to reverse a wicked bargain made by their father, and now el Diablo has come to collect his payment- the soul of Mar's…
- London, 1885. Gabriel has returned to London after his life (and that of his dearest friend) was derailed by a scandal that led to his and Henry's expulsion from Medical School. Gabriel has a chance to start again, but he can't quit Henry, who has…
- Wren Martin, the asexual student council president, plans to eliminate the school's annual Valentine's Day Dance, until his rival Leo sabotages Wren's plan by securing a sponsorship from a dating app, which leads to unexpected feelings and…
- A novel in verse that captures the unbalanced experience of an all-consuming love between two unnamed, queer, Black teen girls who move rapidly from strangerhood into a protective best friendship before becoming dysfunctional lovers and mutually…
- Mexican American Yami 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.
- There's a long-running joke that, after coming out, you should receive a membership card and instruction manual. THIS IS THAT INSTRUCTION MANUAL. You're welcome. Revised and updated edition, this candid, funny, and uncensored exploration of…
- Lewis has a few things to say to his younger teen self. He knows she hates her body. He knows she's confused about who to snog. He knows she's really a he and will ultimately realize this. But she's going to go through a whole lot of mess (some of…
- Lou has enough confusion in front of her this summer, working in her family's ice-cream shack with her former best friend, who is back in their prairie town after disappearing three years ago. When she gets a letter from the biological father who…
- Lily can't remember exactly when the question took root, but the answer came the moment she and Kathleen walked into a lesbian bar called the Telegraph Club. America in 1954 is not a safe place for two girls to fall in love, especially not in…
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