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• A Quick & Easy Guide to Queer & Trans Identities

  G, Mady (Mady M. Giuliani),

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  A great starting point for anyone curious about queer and trans life, and helpful for those already on their own journeys! Covering essential topics like sexuality, gender identity, coming out, and navigating relationships, this guide explains the…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• One of the Boys

  Zeller, Victoria,

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  "Grace Woodhouse used to have a great friend group, an amazing girlfriend, and a Division I football scholarship in her grasp. As senior year begins, Grace struggles to find her place after she comes out as trans. When a chance meeting cracks the…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Compound Fracture

  White, Andrew Joseph,

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  "A queer Appalachian thriller that pulls no punches--following a trans autistic teen who's drawn into the generational struggle between the rural poor and those who exploit them."

• Celestial Monsters

  Thomas, Aiden,

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  In this follow-up to The Sunbearer Trials, "transgender demigod Teo and his friends must battle the Obsidian gods and steal back the sun stone in order to free their fellow semidioses and return Sol to the sky."

• Just Happy to Be Here

  Kanakia, Naomi,

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  "There's no road map for being the first trans girl at an all-girls school. And when Tara tries to join the Sibyls, an old-fashioned Ainsley sisterhood complete with code names and special privileges, she's thrust into the center of a larger…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• A Million Quiet Revolutions

  Gow, Robin,

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  Two seventeen-year-old trans boys in Kutztown, Pennsylvania, struggling to understand themselves and their love for each other, are inspired by an online story about trans soldiers who fell in love during the American Revolution.

• The Many Half-lived Lives of Sam Sylvester

  MacGregor, Maya,

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  "An autistic nonbinary eighteen-year-old moves to a new town and school with the support of their loving father and finds friends in an LGBTQ-plus club, but they all must come together to solve the decades-old murder of a teenage boy and confront…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Passing Playbook

  Fitzsimons, Isaac,

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  Fifteen-year-old Spencer Harris is a proud nerd, an awesome big brother, and a David Beckham in training. He's also transgender. After transitioning at his old school leads to a year of isolation and bullying, Spencer gets a fresh start at Oakley,…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Man O' War

  McCarthy, Cory,

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  While at a marine life theme park, River's encounter with a queer person lands him in the shark tank, which launches a journey of self-discovery, from internalized homophobia and gender dysphoria, through layers of coming out, affirmation surgery,…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Cheer Up!

  Love and Pompoms

  Frasier, Crystal,

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  Annie is a smart, antisocial lesbian starting her senior year of high school who's under pressure to join the cheerleader squad to make friends and round out her college applications. Her former friend BeeBee is a people-pleaser; a trans girl who…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Hell Followed With Us

  White, Andrew Joseph,

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  Sixteen-year-old trans boy Benji is on the run from the cult that raised him—the fundamentalist sect that unleashed Armageddon and decimated the world’s population. Desperately, he searches for a place where the cult can’t get their hands on him, or…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Pet

  Emezi, Akwaeke,

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  In a near-future society that claims to have gotten rid of all monstrous people, a creature emerges from a painting seventeen-year-old Jam's mother created, a hunter from another world seeking a real-life monster.

• Beating Heart Baby

  Min, Lio,

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  Settling into a new life in L.A., Santi finds his fragile relationship with his trans band leader Suwa threatened by an impossible truth that forces them both to reckon with their dreams, their pasts and their futures--together or apart.

• Between Perfect and Real

  Stoeve, Ray,

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  After being cast as Romeo in the school play, Dean realizes he wants everyone to see him as he really is, a male, and not just play one on the stage, despite the risk of losing everything.

• Both Sides Now

  Thomas, Peyton,

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  A transgender teen grapples with his dreams for the future and a crush on his debate partner, all while preparing to to debate trans rights at Nationals.

• The (un)popular Vote

  Sanchez, Jasper,

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  A heated school election forces Mark to decide between being true to himself and pleasing his congressman father, who has urged Mark to hide his past.

• Lakelore

  McLemore, Anna-Marie

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  Everyone who lives near the lake knows the stories about the world underneath it, an ethereal landscape rumored to be half-air, half-water. But Bastián Silvano and Lore Garcia are the only ones who’ve been there. Bastián grew up both above the lake…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Meet Cute Diary

  Lee, Emery,

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  Noah Ramirez thinks he's an expert on romance. He has to be for his popular blog, the Meet Cute Diary, a collection of trans happily ever afters. There's just one problem; all the stories are fake ... When a troll exposes the blog as fiction, Noah's…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• May the Best Man Win

  Ellor, ZR (Zabé R.),

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  Jeremy Harkiss, cheer captain and student body president, won't let coming out as a transgender boy ruin his senior year. Instead of bowing to the bigots and outdated school administration, Jeremy decides to make some noise--and how better than by…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Can't Take That Away

  Salvatore, Steven,

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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.