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1) Girl mans up
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Publisher
HarperTeen, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Language
English
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"In Ontario, Pen is a sixteen-year-old girl who looks like a boy. She's fine with it, but everyone else is uncomfortable--especially her Portuguese immigrant parents and her manipulative neighbor who doesn't want her to find a group of real friends"--
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
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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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English
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"Bloomington High School Lions' star goalie Sebastian Hughes should be excited about his senior year: His teammates are amazing, and he's got a coach who doesn't ask anyone to hide their sexuality. But when his estranged childhood-best-friend Emir Shah shows up at summer training camp, Sebastian realizes the team's success may end up in the hands of the one guy who hates him. Determined to reconnect with Emir for the sake of the Lions, he sets out...
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
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One small fandom convention.
One teen beauty pageant.
One meet-cute waiting to happen. Up-and-coming fanfic author Kaylee Beaumont is internally screaming at the chance to finally meet her fandom friends in real life and spend a weekend at GreatCon. She also has a side quest for the weekend: Try out they/them pronouns to see how it feels.
Wear more masculine-presenting cosplay.
Kiss a girl for the first time. It's ... a lot, and Kay mostly wants to...
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English
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After an assault, bigender seventeen-year-old Aleks/Alexis is looking for a fresh start-so they voluntarily move in with their uncle, a Catholic priest. In their new bedroom, Aleks/Alexis discovers they can overhear parishioners in the church confessional. Moved by the struggles of these "sinners," Aleks/Alexis decides to anonymously help them, finding solace in their secret identity: a guardian angel instead of a victim. But then Aleks/Alexis overhears...
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
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10 Worth Trying: Young Adult LGBTQIA+ [High School Readers]
For Fans of Heartstopper
Trans and Nonbinary Authors: Books for Teens
For Fans of Heartstopper
Trans and Nonbinary Authors: Books for Teens
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When Ben De Backer comes out to their parents as nonbinary, they're thrown out of their house and forced to move in with their estranged older sister, Hannah, and her husband, Thomas, whom Ben has never even met. Struggling with an anxiety disorder compounded by their parents' rejection, they come out only to Hannah, Thomas, and their therapist and try to keep a low profile in a new school. But Ben's attempts to survive the last half of senior year...
Author
Publisher
James Lorimer & Company Ltd., Publishers
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
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"Full of colourful, authentic characters and set in Toronto, Confessions of a Teenage Drag King highlights diversity of race, gender, sexual orientation, and identity. Seventeen-year-old Lauren tries to navigate the tricky waters of teen romance that brings high school to the drag show and back, all while Lauren must keep up their two personas--Ren, a drag king, and Lauri, a typical student--and come to terms with their feelings both for mixed-race...
9) Needlework
Author
Publisher
Three Rooms Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
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Description
"In rural Kentucky, a sixteen-year-old boy with a love of quilting, cooking and Dolly Parton helps his grandma care for his opioid-addicted mother, until the discovery of a family secret upends everything he has ever believed. While other sixteen-year-old boys in Morgan, Kentucky, love hunting and football, Kody prefers to spend his time quilting with his grandmother (“Nanny”), watching Golden Girls reruns, and listening to old Dolly Parton albums....
10) Urchin
Author
Publisher
Running The Goat
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
While questioning her gender identity, a young girl is pulled between the dark world of fairylore and the dynamic world of early 20th-century scientific experimentation as she struggles to save her missing mother.
The house Dorothea's great-great grandfather built on the south side of St. John's is said to lie on a fairy path, a gateway to the world of the Little Strangers. It seems to be cursed, and ever since electricity came to the island things...
11) Kens
Author
Publisher
Penguin Teen
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Ken Hilton rules Willows High with his carbon copies, Ken Roberts and Ken Carson, standing next to his throne. It can be hard to tell the Kens apart. There are minor differences in each edition, but all Kens are created from the same mold, straight out of Satan's doll factory. Soul sold seperately. Tommy Rawlins can't help but compare himself to these shimmering images of perfection that glide though the halls. But in a school where the Kens are queens...
Author
Series
I hate everyone but you volume 1
Language
English
Description
Dear Best Friend, I can already tell that I will hate everyone but you. Sincerely, Ava Helmer (that brunette who won't leave you alone) We're still in the same room, you weirdo. Stop crying. G. So begins a series of texts and emails sent between two best friends, Ava and Gen, as they head off to their first semesters of college on opposite sides of the country. From first loves to weird roommates, heartbreak, self-discovery, coming out and mental...
13) Like other girls
Author
Publisher
Hyperion
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
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""What if I played football?" I ask. As soon as it's out of my mouth, I feel stupid. Even suggesting it feels like I've overstepped some kind of invisible line we've all agreed not to discuss. We don't talk about how Mara is different from other girls. We don't talk about how Mara is gay but no one says so. But when I do stuff like this, I worry it gets harder for us all to ignore what's right in front of us. I direct my gaze to Quinn. "What do you...
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