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1) Secret
Author
Series
Elemental series (Brigid Kemmerer) volume 4
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Nick Merrick is trying to enjoy his senior year in high school as much as possible. At the same time he worries about the Elemental Guides who may show up to kill him and his family and about the secret he is keeping from everyone that he is gay.
Author
Language
English
Description
Publisher Annotation: Everyone knows that Nick and Charlie are the perfect couple – that they’re inseparable. But now Nick is leaving for university, and Charlie will be left behind at Sixth Form. Everyone’s asking if they’re staying together, which is a stupid question – they’re ‘Nick and Charlie’ for God’s sake! But as the time to say goodbye gets inevitably closer, both Nick and Charlie question whether their love is strong enough...
3) Release
Author
Language
English
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Inspired by Judy Blume's Forever and Virginia Woolf's Mrs. Dalloway, this novel is a new classic about teenage relationships, self-acceptance-and what happens when the walls we build start coming down. Adam Thorn doesn't know it yet, but today will change his life. Between his religious family, a deeply unpleasant ultimatum from his boss, and his own unrequited love for his sort-of ex, Enzo, it seems as though Adam's life is falling apart. At least...
Author
Series
Scapegracers volume 2
Language
English
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Publisher Annotation: The second book in the Scapegracers trilogy, formerly outcast lesbian witch who struggles to keep her coven as the loss of her magical soul drives her to desperation.
Author
Series
Scapegracers volume 3
Language
English
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Description
The Craft for Gen Z: The Feast Makers, indie bestselling author H. A. Clarke crafts an action-packed conclusion to the Scapegracers trilogy, as our beloved teen coven tackle college acceptances, queer romance, and a witch trial to remember for the ages.
6) Evergreen
Author
Publisher
Entangled: Teen, an imprint of Entangled Publishing, LLC
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
Publisher Annotation: The Secret Garden is gorgeously reimagined in this deliciously dreamy urban fairytale about a dryad who risks immortality for love, from debut author Devin Greenlee.
Author
Series
Openly straight volume 1
Language
English
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Description
Tired of being known as "the gay kid", Rafe Goldberg decides to assume a new persona when he comes east and enters an elite Massachusetts prep school--but trying to deny his identity has both complications and unexpected consequences.
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
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Pride for Teens
School Library Journal - Best Teen Books of 2020
Time's 100 Best YA Titles of All Time
School Library Journal - Best Teen Books of 2020
Time's 100 Best YA Titles of All Time
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Publisher Annotation: Michael is a mixed-race gay teen growing up in London. All his life, he?s navigated what it means to be Greek-Cypriot and Jamaican?but never quite feeling Greek or Black enough. As he gets older, Michael?s coming out is only the start of learning who he is and where he fits in. When he discovers the Drag Society, he finally finds where he belongs?and the Black Flamingo is born. Told with raw honesty, insight, and lyricism, this...
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Language
English
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Publisher Annotation: Two girls. One wild and reckless day. Years of tumultuous history unspooling like a thin, fraying string in the hours after they set a fire. They were best friends. Until they became more. Their affections grew. Until the blurry lines became dangerous. Over the course of a single day, the depth of their past, the confusion of their present, and the unpredictability of their future is revealed. And the girls will learn that hearts,...
Author
Series
Feverwake volume 2
Publisher
Skyscape
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
Publisher Annotation: In the sequel to The Fever King, Noam ?lvaro seeks to end tyranny before he becomes a tyrant himself.
12) Libre
Author
Publisher
Nube de Tinta
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
Español
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Description
Inspired by Judy Blume?s Forever and Virginia Woolf?s Mrs. Dalloway, this novel that Andrew Smith calls "beautiful, enchanting, [and] exquisitely written" is a new classic about teenage relationships, self-acceptance?and what happens when the walls we build start coming down.
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Language
English
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Description
Publisher Annotation: Dumplin' meets Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda in this heartfelt and funny contemporary romance inspired by Dollywood, about two boys who fall in love against the backdrop of a country music-themed amusement park, from debut author Brian D. Kennedy.
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Language
English
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Description
Marley is comfortable with being gay in Winston-Salem, but he never had any real passions until he met Christopher, son of a bigoted television evangelist; the two become an inseparable couple until Christopher's parents send him to a religious program intended to "cure" him of being gay, and outraged Marley tells a very big lie--and then has to deal with the repercussions.
15) Vanilla
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
Told in a series of blank verse poems, two boys Van (called Vanilla) and Hunter tell of their relationship which began before they were teenagers, but foundered in high school, mostly because Hunter thinks they should be having sex and Vanilla is not so sure.
16) Nikhil out loud
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Language
English
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Description
Publisher Annotation: From the acclaimed actor and Stonewall Honor-winning author of The Best at It, Maulik Pancholy, comes a new middle grade novel about a gay Indian American boy who learns the power of using his voice. For fans of Merci Suárez Changes Gears and Better Nate Than Ever.
17) Honestly Ben
Author
Series
Openly straight volume 2
Language
English
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Description
Ben Carver returns for the spring semester at the exclusive Natick School in Massachusetts determined to put his relationship with Rafe Goldberg behind him and concentrate on his grades and the award that will mean a full scholarship--but Rafe is still there, there is a girl named Hannah whom he meets in the library, and behind it all is his relationship with his distant, but demanding father.
Author
Publisher
Ingram Spark
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
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Description
Hannah is sixteen and doesn't feel like she fits in anywhere. Brainy, fat, and secretly in love with her best friend Liz, she's always found solace in her sweet and loving grandma. In the spring of 1996, as Gran moves into an Alzheimer's care center and Liz falls for yet another boy, Hannah branches out to find community on her own. She discovers zines, works up the confidence to attend a local GLBT youth group, and makes some new friends who help...
Author
Publisher
Viking Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
Publisher Annotation: Micah Summers runs a popular Instagram full of drawings of his numerous imaginary boyfriends (99 so far) - though he's never had a real boyfriend before. But when a meet-cute with Boy 100 goes wrong, Micah embarks on a Prince Charming-like quest throughout Chicago to find true love - for real this time.
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Language
English
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Publisher Anno: The summer after her freshman year of college, Mariam is looking forward to working and hanging out with her best friends: irrepressible and beautiful Ghazala, and religious but closeted Umar. But when a scandalous photo of Ghaz appears on a billboard in Times Square, Mariam and Umar come up with a plan to rescue her from her furious parents. And what could be a better escape than a spontaneous road trip down to New Orleans?
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