This upbeat "Own Voices" novel is about Mahalia, a 16-year old who plans to throw her own Coming Out party. But schoolwork, bills and other struggles threaten to throw her party off track!
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Great YA reads that feature LGBTQ+ people and relationships.
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- M-E. Girard offers this thoughtful novel featuring Baylee, a Toronto teen who struggles with negative self-talk and confidence in dating. Just as the Covid pandemic hits, Baylee is exploring a new relationship and changes in old ones.
- Set against the backdrop of Tehran and Los Angeles, this sweeping intergenerational story, examining queer identity at the end of different decades, follows three boys in the same Iranian family as they each gain a new understanding of…
- While exploring the city dressed as a young gentleman in 1812 London, trans boy Oliver meets and falls in love with Darcy, forcing him to choose between a life of pretending to be something he's not or risking everything for a life that is…
- While helping his best friend Alan (aka teen drag queen Aggie Culture) produce Mason County's debut Drag Extravaganza against a backdrop of backlash and bigotry, Peter Thompkins begins to wonder if his already damaged reputation--and…
- With rebellion brewing in this YA dystopic world (and a taboo but impossible-to-deny love for her school rival Carmen growing in her heart), Dani must decide what she’s willing to do to protect the things that matter most.
- Becoming friends with new girl Darcy, a fellow gamer, Art must find the courage to take a stand against his influential and conservative father who is trying to stop Darcy and her friends from starting a queer-straight alliance at school.
- On September 5, Mateo Torrez and Rufus Emeterio both get the call that everyone dreads: some time today, they're going to die. Through the app Last Friend, they meet each other and set off to fit as much life as they can, before they both…
- Ash Woods is rejected from the College of Alchemic Science but is still determined to learn forbidden alchemy. After sneaking into the campus as a groundskeeper he continues his learning until student Ramsay Thorne catches him.They make a…
- When signs of dark magic begin to appear in Salem, Hannah has to team up with her ex-girlfriend to save her coven and the town, and maybe, just maybe, find a way to make things work out with her new crush.
- Award-winning Graphic Novelist, Mariko Tamaki is back with a beautiful and moving tale of teen love and how it can go so wrong.
- Lonely Jassie surprisingly makes not one but two friends at summer camp, and then falls for them both. What is she going to do next?
- Have you ever wished that Harry Potter was a little more emotionally nuanced and a lot more gay? Good news for Harry/Draco slash fans: Rainbow Rowell has your back in this story about what happens to the chosen one when they're no longer…
- A hilarious historical road-trip. Monty is determined to make this journey to Europe his last hedonistic hurrah. With his sister Felicity and his childhood best friend (and long-time crush) Percy along for the journey, what could go wrong?…
- A funny, fast-moving, political sci-fi romance about an arranged marriage between the feckless distance relative of the empress, and his cousin's widower. Mutual pining and slowly healing from past intimate partner abuse are the emotional…
- If you like magic and the dismantling of gender norms, this dark fairy-tale-esque fantasy with a heartwarming polyamorous relationship may be for you.
- An uneasy, enthralling, beautifully dark gothic fantasy. Eleanor loved her feral, monstrous family, until they sent her away. Now she has returned – but can she ever truly belong with them again? As her life and identity begin to unravel,…
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