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• Airlock

  McAdam, Tash

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  112 p. (Gr. 7+) In this high-interest accessible novel for teen readers, nonbinary teen Brick must rescue the crew of the spaceship they snuck onto when it is taken over by pirates.

• Gender Is Really Strange

  Goetz, Teddy G.

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  40 p. (Gr. 10+) Gender is a self-understanding influenced by society, culture and personal experiences. Sex, in contrast, is a biological term. Neither of which is binary! This graphic medicine comic is a unique exploration into the…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Being Ace

  An Anthology of Queer, Trans, Femme, and Disabled Stories of Asexual Love and Connection

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  339 p. (Gr. 9+) Discover the infinite realms of asexual love across sci-fi, fantasy, and contemporary stories. Whether adventuring through space, outsmarting a vengeful water spirit, or surviving haunted cemeteries, no two aces are the…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Infinity Alchemist

  Callender, Kacen

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  385 p. (Gr. 10+) Lower-class Ash has little chance of earning a license that will allow him to legally practice alchemy, so he uses his access to the alchemist school's resources to teach himself. When arrogant upper-class Ramsay catches…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Just Another Epic Love Poem

  a Novel

  Akhbari, Parisa

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  400 p. (Gr. 10+) Two best friends (Iranian-American and Latinx-American), bonded by their shared love of poetry, uncover all the different meanings if "I love you" once they begin dating their senior year of high school.

• Something Kindred

  Burch, Ciera

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  304 p. (Gr. 8+) All that black, bisexual senior Jericka knows about her grandmother is that she abandoned her children--Jericka's mother and uncle. So Jericka doesn't understand why her mother moves them to rural Coldwater, Maryland, to…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Cuckoos Three

  Cassandra Jean

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  240 p. (Gr. 10+) In this graphic novel, Murry Summerfield, relentlessly decent son of the farmstead, meets Jacob Durris, charming but troubled new neighbor. When he discovers why Jacob has moved out to the countryside, Murry has his hands…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Chasing Pacquiao

  Pulido, Rod

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  261 p. (Gr. 7+) When Bobby is unwillingly outed he turns to boxing, finding a hero in Filipino boxer Manny Pacquiao, but when Pacquiao publicly denounces homosexuality, Bobby must discover a hero within himself.

• Going Bicoastal

  Adler, Dahlia,

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  325 p. (Gr. 8+) Told in alternating timelines, Jewish seventeen-year-old Natalya spends one summer in New York with her dad, trying to muster the courage to talk to her girl crush, and the other in Los Angeles with her estranged mom, going…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Into the Light

  Oshiro, Mark

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  442 p. (Gr. 8+) Seventeen-year-old queer adoptee Manny, now homeless, sets out to find his sister Elena, who is still enmeshed in Christ's Dominion, the community that abandoned him, but the journey is fraught with danger, as he is forced…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• One Last Breath

  Sain, Ginny Myers

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  384 p. (Gr. 10+) Haunted by the death of her sister and the decades-old cold case of best friends Bailey and Celeste, eighteen-year-old Tru becomes entangled with a mysterious girl named Rio as their pursuit of the truth unveils an…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• I'll Take Everything You Have

  Klise, James, 1967-

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  280 p. (Gr. 7+) While running a con in 1934 Chicago, sixteen-year-old Joe splits his time between Eddie, a handsome flirt, and Raymond, a carefree rich kid who shows Joe the queer life of the big city, but as danger closes in, Joe must…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Ander & Santi Were Here

  a Novel

  Garza Villa, Jonny

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  355 p. (Gr. 9+) Nonbinary teen Ander is ready to leave their family's taquería and focus on their art, but when Santi, an undocumented immigrant from Mexico, begins to work at the restaurant, the two teens spark a romance made complicated…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Forget Me Not

  Derrick, Alyson

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  308 p. (Gr. 10+) Fifteen-year-old Stevie and Nora's plan to abandon their conservative small town for California so they can be together is shattered when a terrible fall steals every trace of Stevie's relationship with Nora from her…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• We Are Mayhem

  Rourke-Mooney, Beck

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  320 p. (Gr. 9+) Seventeen-year-old Birdie must overcome her desire to blend in so she can help new friend Abigail Rose take her family's amateur wrestling promotion in a new, more feminist direction. Wrestling, taxidermy, and gender all…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Stars in Their Eyes

  Walton, Jessica,

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  209 p. (Gr. 7+) Maisie is on her way to her first fancon and she can't wait to meet her idol, an action star who had an above-the-knee amputation, just like Maisie. Then she meets Ollie. Ollie is a cute volunteer working the show, and they…Read moreRead more of this annotation