Celebrate PRIDE Month! (Teen Edition)

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Learn about gender fluency, awareness and acceptance of how people identify. Whether you are a questioning teen, a teacher or parent, this book is an essential guide on gender identity.

2) Beyond magenta: transgender teens speak out

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Kuklin, Susan

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Six transgender or gender-neutral young adults tell their stories.

3) A Quick and Easy Guide to Queer & Trans Identities

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G., Mady

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Quick and Easy Guide

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In this quick and easy guide to queer and trans identities, cartoonists Mady G and Jules Zuckerberg guide you through the basics of the LGBTQ+ world! Covering essential topics like sexuality, gender identity, coming out, and navigating relationships, this guide explains the spectrum of human experience through informative comics, interviews, worksheets, and imaginative examples. A great starting point for anyone curious about queer and trans life,...

4) Queer: The Ultimate LGBT Guide for Teens

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Belge, Kathy

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Teen life is hard enough with all of the pressures kids face, but for teens who are LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual, or transgender), it's even harder. When do you decide to come out? To whom? Will your friends accept you? And how on earth do you meet people to date? Queer is a humorous, engaging, and honest guide that helps LGBT teens come out to friends and family, navigate their new LGBT social life, figure out if a crush is also queer,

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5) Stonewall: breaking out in the fight for gay rights

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Bausum, Ann

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"A dramatic retelling of the Stonewall riots of 1969, introducing teen readers to the decades-long struggle for gay rights"-- "That's the Stonewall. The Stonewall Inn. Pay attention. History walks through that door. In 1969 being gay in the United States was a criminal offense. It meant living a closeted life or surviving on the fringes of society. People went to jail, lost jobs, and were disowned by their families for being gay. Most doctors considered...

6) All out

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Harlequin Teen

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Publisher Annotation: Take a journey through time and genres and discover a past where queer figures live, love and shape the world around them. Seventeen of the best young adult authors across the queer spectrum have come together to create a collection of beautifully written diverse historical fiction for teens.

7) Queens of geek

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Wilde, Jen

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"Three friends go to a convention and find love--and themselves"--

8) Pulp

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Talley, Robin

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Publisher Annotation: In 1955, eighteen-year-old Janet Jones keeps the love she shares with her best friend Marie a secret. It?s not easy being gay in Washington, DC, in the age of McCarthyism, but when she discovers a series of books about women falling in love with other women, it awakens something in Janet. As she juggles a romance she must keep hidden and a newfound ambition to write and publish her own story, she risks exposing herself?and Marie?to...

9) Odd one out

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Stone, Nic

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High school juniors and best friends Courtney and Jupe, and new sophomore Rae, explore their sexuality and their budding attractions for one another.

10) The summer of Jordi Perez (and the best burger in Los Angeles)

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Spalding, Amy

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Publisher Annotation: When Abby Ives lands her dream internship, she expects to spend the summer focusing on making her way in the fashion industry, until she falls for her competition, Jordi.

11) They both die at the end

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Silvera, Adam

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Death-Cast volume 1

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"Adam Silvera reminds us that there's no life without death and no love without loss in this devastating yet uplifting story about two people whose lives change over the course of one unforgettable day. #1 New York Times bestseller * 4 starred reviews * A School Library Journal Best Book of the Year * A Kirkus Best Book of the Year * A Booklist Editors' Choice * A Bustle Best YA Novel * A Paste Magazine Best YA Book * A Book Riot Best Queer Book *...

12) Aristotle and Dante discover the secrets of the universe

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Saenz, Benjamin Alire

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Aristotle and Dante volume 1

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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.

13) If I was your girl

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Russo, Meredith

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Amanda Hardy only wants to fit in at her new school, but she is keeping a big secret, so when she falls for Grant, guarded Amanda finds herself yearning to share with him everything about herself, including her previous life as Andrew.

14) Carry on: the rise and fall of Simon Snow

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Rowell, Rainbow

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Simon Snow volume 1

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Rainbow Rowell's #1 New York Times bestseller Carry On, now available in this special bookshelf edition with a brand new case stamp and designed endpapers! 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, he starts something on fire. His mentor's avoiding...

15) juliet takes a breath

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16) Gabi, a girl in pieces

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Quintero, Isabel

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Sixteen-year-old Gabi Hernandez chronicles her senior year in high school as she copes with her friend Cindy's pregnancy, friend Sebastian's coming out, her father's meth habit, her own cravings for food and cute boys, and especially, the poetry that helps forge her identity.

17) Anger is a gift

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Oshiro, Mark

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Publisher Annotation: Moss Jeffries is many things?considerate student, devoted son, loyal friend and affectionate boyfriend, enthusiastic nerd. But sometimes Moss still wishes he could be someone else?someone without panic attacks, someone whose father was still alive, someone who hadn?t become a rallying point for a community because of one horrible night. And most of all, he wishes he didn?t feel so stuck. Moss can?t even escape at school?he and...

18) Neanderthal opens the door to the universe

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Norton, Preston

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Nearly a year after his brother's suicide, sixteen-year-old Cliff "Neanderthal" Hubbard gets recruited to make life better at Happy Valley High by the school's quarterback, who claims he had a vision from God.

19) Girls of paper and fire

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Ngan, Natasha

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Girls of paper and fire series volume 1

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When Lei, seventeen, is stolen from her home to become one of nine Paper Girls, the Demon King's concubines, she proves to be more fire than paper.

20) October mourning: a song for Matthew Shepard

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Newman, Lesl?a

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Relates, from various points of view, events from the night of October 6, 1998, when twenty-one-year-old Matthew Shepard, a gay college student, was lured out of a Wyoming bar, savagely beaten, tied to a fence, and left to die.