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• Gender Queer

  a Memoir

  Kobabe, Maia,

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  In 2014, Maia Kobabe, who uses e/em/eir pronouns, thought that a comic of reading statistics would be the last autobiographical comic e would ever write.

• Lawn Boy

  a Novel

  Evison, Jonathan,

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  For Mike Muñoz, a young Chicano living in Washington State, life has been a whole lot of waiting for something to happen. Not too many years out of high school and still doing menial work - and just fired from his latest gig as a lawn boy…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• All Boys Aren't Blue

  a Memoir-manifesto

  Johnson, George M. (George Matthew), 1985-

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  In a series of personal essays, prominent journalist and LGBTQIA+ activist George M. Johnson explores his childhood, adolescence, and college years in New Jersey and Virginia. From the memories of getting his teeth kicked out by bullies at…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Out of Darkness

  Pérez, Ashley Hope

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  New London, Texas, 1937. Naomi Vargas and Wash Fuller know about the lines in East Texas as well as anyone. They know the signs that mark them. They know the people who enforce them. But sometimes the attraction between two people is so…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Hate U Give

  Thomas, Angie

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  Sixteen-year-old Starr Carter moves between two worlds: the poor neighborhood where she lives and the fancy suburban prep school she attends. The uneasy balance between these worlds is shattered when Starr witnesses the fatal shooting of…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-time Indian

  Alexie, Sherman, 1966-

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  Heartbreaking, funny, and beautifully written, The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian, which is based on the author's own experiences, coupled with poignant drawings by Ellen Forney that reflect the character's art, chronicles the…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Me and Earl and the Dying Girl

  a Novel

  Andrews, Jesse

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  Up until senior year, Greg has maintained total social invisibility. He has only one friend, Earl, and together they spend their time - when not playing video games and avoiding Earl's terrifying brothers - making movies, their own…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Bluest Eye

  a Novel

  Morrison, Toni, 1931-2019

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  It is the story of 11-year-old Pecola Breedlove--a black girl in an America whose love for its blond, blue-eyed children can devastate all others--who prays for her eyes to turn blue: so that she will be beautiful, so that people will look…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• This Book Is Gay

  Dawson, Juno

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  Lesbian. Bisexual. Queer. Transgender. Straight. Curious. This book is for everyone, regardless of gender or sexual preference. This book is for anyone who's ever dared to wonder. This book is for you. There's a long-running joke that…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Beyond Magenta

  Transgender Teens Speak Out

  Kuklin, Susan

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  "My family was okay with me being gay, but trans was a different issue for them. I think a lot of it was because they had no experience with it." - Luke In Beyond Magenta, six teens tell what it is like for them to be members of the…Read moreRead more of this annotation