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Follow these LGBTQIA+ teen protagonists as they bravely discover who they are, whom they love, and how they navigate their world.

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  • Seventeen-year-old Lily Hu can't remember exactly when the feeling took root--that desire to look, to move closer, to touch. Whenever it started growing, it definitely bloomed the moment she and Kathleen Miller walked under the flashing neon sign of…
    Book, 2021New York : Dutton Books, 2021. — Y FICTION LO
  • On Mar Leon de la Rosa's sixteenth birthday, el Diablo comes calling. Mar is a transmasculine nonbinary teen pirate hiding a magical ability to manipulate fire and ice. But their magic isn't enough to reverse a wicked bargain made by their father,…
    Book, 2023New York : Random House Children's Books, [2023] — Y FICTION NOVOA
  • New York City, 1922. Nicolás Caraveo, a 17-year-old transgender boy has no interest in the city's glamor. Going to New York is all about establishing himself as a young professional, which could set up his future--and his life as a man--and benefit…
    Book, 2022New York : Feiwel and Friends, 2022. — Y FICTION MCLEMORE
  • Juliet Milagros Palante is a self-proclaimed closeted Puerto Rican baby dyke from the Bronx. Only, she's not so closeted anymore. Not after coming out to her family the night before flying to Portland, Oregon, to intern with her favorite feminist…
    Book, 2019New York : Dial Books, [2019] — Y FICTION RIVERA
  • Set against the backdrop of Tehran and Los Angeles and told through the experiences of three generations of boys from the same Iranian family, this tale of intergenerational trauma and love is an ode to the fragile bonds of family, the hidden…
    Book, 2023New York, NY : Balzer + Bray, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2023] — Y FICTION NAZEMIAN
  • High schooler Moss is a survivor. He's witnessed his father's death at the hands of the police and has anxiety, but his friends and mother help him through panic attacks. He struggles with self-consciousness and body image, and his dating life as a…
    Book, 2018New York : Tom Doherty Associates , 2018. — Y FICTION OSHIRO
  • Alice had her whole summer planned. Nonstop all-you-can-eat buffets while marathoning her favorite TV shows with the smallest dash of adulting--working at the library to pay her share of the rent. The only thing missing from her perfect plan? Her…
    Book, 2018New York : Swoon Reads, an imprint of Feiwel and Friends and Macmillan Publishing Group LLC, 2018. — Y FICTION KANN
  • Fifteen-year-old Ari Mendoza is an angry loner with a brother in prison, but when he meets Dante and they become friends, Ari starts to ask questions about himself, his parents, and his family that he has never asked before.
    Paperback, 2014New York : Simon & Schuster BFYR, 2014. — Y FICTION SAENZ
  • When new student Amanda Hardy meets sweet, easygoing Grant, she can't help but start to let him into her life. She finds herself yearning to share with him everything about herself, including her past. But Amanda's terrified that once she tells him…
    Book, 2016New York : Flatiron Books, 2016. — Y FICTION RUSSO
  • After a year at boarding school, 16-year-old Suzette is happy to be home for the summer, but that doesn't mean life is simple. Her stepbrother, Lionel, has been diagnosed with bipolar disorder; Suzette has just had her first same-sex relationship…
    Book, 2017New York : Little, Brown and Company, 2017. — Y FICTION COLBERT
  • High school juniors and best friends Courtney and Jupe, and new sophomore Rae, explore their sexuality and their budding attractions for one another.
    Book, 2018New York : Crown, [2018] — Y FICTION STONE
  • When Kristin is voted homecoming queen, it seems like another piece of her ideal life has fallen into place. She's a champion hurdler with a full scholarship to college and she's madly in love with her boyfriend. In fact, she's decided that she's…
    Book, 2015New York, NY : Balzer + Bray, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, [2015] — Y FICTION GREGORIO
  • Jay simply blends into the background to everyone, except when it comes to Leroy. Unsure of what he could have possibly done to catch the eye of the boy who could easily have anyone he wants, Jay isn't about to ignore the surprising but welcome…
    Book, 2023New York, NY : HarperTeen, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, [2023] — Y FICTION MILLER
  • Henry "Monty" Montague was bred to be a gentleman. His passions for gambling halls, late nights spent with a bottle of spirits, or waking up in the arms of women or men, have earned the disapproval of his father. His quest for pleasures and vices…
    Book, 2017New York : Katherine Tegen Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2017] — Y FICTION LEE
  • Irritable and annoying, 13-year-old Elliot Schafer becomes the unlikely protagonist of Brennan's novel after receiving an invitation to attend a unique school in the magical realm, which is protected from the real world by an invisible wall that few…
    Book, 2017Easthampton, Mass. : Big Mouth House, [2017] — Y FICTION BRENNAN