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• What If It's Us

  Albertalli, Becky,

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  Told in two voices, when Arthur, a summer intern from Georgia, and Ben, a native New Yorker, meet it seems like fate, but after three attempts at dating fail they wonder if the universe is pushing them together or apart.

• Ask the Passengers

  King, A. S. (Amy Sarig), 1970-

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  "Astrid Jones copes with her small town's gossip and narrow-mindedness by staring at the sky and imagining that she's sending love to the passengers in the airplanes flying high over her backyard. Maybe they'll know what to do with it. Maybe it'll…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The House You Pass on the Way

  Woodson, Jacqueline

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  When fourteen-year-old Staggerlee, the daughter of a racially mixed marriage, spends a summer with her cousin Trout, she begins to question her sexuality to Trout and catches a glimpse of her possible future self.

• The Perks of Being a Wallflower

  Chbosky, Stephen

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  Follows observant "wallflower" Charlie as he charts a course through the strange world between adolescence and adulthood. First dates, family drama, and new friends. Sex, drugs, and The Rocky Horror Picture Show . Devastating loss, young love, and…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Ramona Blue

  Murphy, Julie, 1985-

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  Ramona was only five years old when Hurricane Katrina changed her life forever. Since then, it's been Ramona and her family against the world. Standing over six feet tall with unmistakable blue hair, Ramona is sure of three things: she likes girls,…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Heartstopper. Volume 1

  Oseman, Alice,

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  "Boy meets boy. Boys become friends. Boys fall in love. Shy and softhearted Charlie Spring sits next to rugby player Nick Nelson in class one morning. A warm and intimate friendship follows, and that soon develops into something more for Charlie,…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Loveless

  Oseman, Alice,

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  Georgia has parents who are still in love, two sets of grandparents that are still together, and a brother who married his girlfriend, but at eighteen she has never even kissed someone (not even her lesbian best friend, Felipa) or particularly even…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Cool for the Summer

  Adler, Dahlia,

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  Larissa Bogdan was supposed to spend her summer babysitting and bookselling. Instead, she tagged along with her mom to the Outer Banks, working on her tan and making new friends. Now she's back and starting her senior year at Stratford High, only to…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Leah on the Offbeat

  Albertalli, Becky,

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  With prom and graduation around the corner, senior Leah Burke struggles when her group of friends start fighting.

• Simon Vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda

  Albertalli, Becky,

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  "Sixteen-year-old, not-so-openly-gay Simon Spier is blackmailed into playing wingman for his classmate or else his sexual identity--and that of his pen pal--will be revealed"--

• Carry on

  the Rise and Fall of Simon Snow

  Rowell, Rainbow

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  "Simon Snow is the worst Chosen One who's ever been chosen.That's what his roommate, Baz, says. And Baz might be evil and a vampire and a complete git, but he's probably right.Half the time, Simon can't even make his wand work, and the other half,…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• All Out

  the No-longer-secret Stories of Queer Teens Throughout the Ages

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  From a retelling of Little Red Riding Hood set in war-torn 1870s Mexico featuring a transgender soldier...to two girls falling in love while mourning the death of Kurt Cobain...to forbidden love in a sixteenth-century Spanish convent...and an…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Six of Crows

  Bardugo, Leigh

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  "Six dangerous outcasts. One impossible heist. Kaz's crew is the only thing that might stand between the world and destruction--if they don't kill each other first"--

• Georgia Peaches and Other Forbidden Fruit

  Brown, Jaye Robin,

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  Joanna Gordon has been out and proud for years, but when her popular radio evangelist father remarries and decides to move all three of them from Atlanta to the more conservative Rome, Georgia, he asks Jo to do the impossible: to lie low for the…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Felix Ever After

  Callender, Kacen,

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  Felix Love, a transgender seventeen-year-old, attempts to get revenge by catfishing his anonymous bully, but lands in a quasi-love triangle with his former enemy and his best friend. Felix Love has never been in love, painful irony that it is. He…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Once & Future

  Capetta, A. R.

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  Resets the Arthurian legend in outer space, with King Arthur reincarnated as seventeen-year-old Ari, a female king whose quest is to stop a tyrranical corporate government, aided by a teenaged Merlin.

• The Miseducation of Cameron Post

  Danforth, Emily M.

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  In the early 1990s, when gay teenager Cameron Post rebels against her conservative Montana ranch town and her family decides she needs to change her ways, she is sent to a gay conversion therapy center.

• I Wish You All the Best

  Deaver, Mason,

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  After coming out as nonbinary, Ben must leave home and goes to live with a sister and her husband to finish the last year of high school.

• Dread Nation

  Rise Up

  Ireland, Justina

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  When families go missing in Baltimore County, Jane McKeene, who is studying to become an Attendant, finds herself in the middle of a conspiracy that has her fighting for her life against powerful enemies. Jane McKeene was born two days before the…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Hani and Ishu's Guide to Fake Dating

  Jaigirdar, Adiba,

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  "Everyone likes Humaira 'Hani' Khan--she's easy going and one of the most popular girls at school. But when she comes out to her friends as bisexual, they invalidate her identity, saying she can't be bi if she's only dated guys. Panicked, Hani…Read moreRead more of this annotation