Birthday
The story of two best friends told over the span of six birthdays. You can also check out this title as eBook on Overdrive/Libby.
Read Proud: Fiction for Teens
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Color Outside the Lines: Stories About Love
Short stories exploring interracial and LGBTQ+ relationships, in which differences are front and center, but may or may not matter. You can also check out this title as eBook on Overdrive/Libby.
Felix Ever After
Felix Love, a transgender seventeen-year-old, attempts to get revenge by catfishing his anonymous bully, but lands in a quasi-love triangle with his former enemy and his best friend. You can also check out this title as eBook on OverDrive/Libby, as eAudio on OverDrive/Libby, as eBook on Hoopla or as eAudio on Hoopla.
How (Not) to Ask a Boy to Prom
Despite wanting to have his first kiss at some point, Nolan Grant is positive that he doesn’t need a boyfriend. Instead, he’s perfectly happy to ride out his junior year drawing narwhals, working at the greenhouse, and getting smoothies with his best friend. However, Nolan’s older sister has other ideas for him–ideas that include a non-refundable ticket to prom. You can also check out this title as eBook on Overdrive/Libby.
How to Be Remy Cameron
Everyone on campus knows Remy Cameron: he’s the out-and-proud, super-likable guy who friends, faculty, and fellow students alike admire for his cheerful confidence. Under pressure to write an A+ essay defining who he is and who he wants to be, Remy embarks on an emotional journey toward reconciling the outward labels people attach to him with the real Remy Cameron within. You can also check out this title as eBook on Hoopla or as eAudio on Hoopla.
Kings, Queens, and In-Betweens
After an encounter at her small town’s annual summer festival, seventeen-year-old biracial, queer Nima plunges into the world of drag, where she has the chance to explore questions of identity, acceptance, self-expression, and love. You can also check out this title as eBook on Overdrive/Libby.
Let's Talk About Love
Alice’s last girlfriend, Margo, ended things when Alice confessed she’s asexual. Now Alice is sure she’s done with dating and then she meets Takumi. She can’t stop thinking about him or the rom-com-grade romance feelings she did not ask for. Alice has to decide if she’s willing to risk their friendship for a love that might not be reciprocated or understood. You can also check out this title as eBook on OverDrive/Libby.
The Love & Lies of Rukhsana Ali
When Rukhsana’s mother catches her with her girlfriend, she is forced to go stay with relatives in Bangladesh. Suddenly in a world of arranged marriages, religious tradition, and intolerance, Rukhsana must find the courage to take control of her future and fight for her love. You can also check out this title as eBook on Overdrive/Libby or as eAudio on Hoopla.
Meet Cute Diary
Noah Ramirez, a transgender boy in love with the idea of falling in love, must find a way to save his relationship blog when a troll exposes it as fiction. You can also check out this title as eBook on OverDrive/Libby, as eAudio on OverDrive/Libby, or as eAudio on Hoopla.
Odd One Out
High school juniors and best friends Courtney and Jupe, and new sophomore Rae, explore their sexuality and their budding attractions for one another. You can also check out this title as eAudio on OverDrive/Libby or as eBook on OverDrive/Libby.
Pumpkin
Creating a drag-show audition tape that culminates in an unkind nomination for prom queen, an overweight and openly gay teen partners with a girl who has been nominated for prom king to embrace their true selves. You can also check out this title as an eBook on Libby/OverDrive, or as eAudio on Libby/OverDrive.
The Stars and the Blackness Between Them
Told in two voices, sixteen-year-old Audre and Mabel, both young women of color from different backgrounds, fall in love and figure out how to care for each other as one of them faces a fatal illness.
This title is also available for checkout as an eBook on Libby and in eAudio on Libby.
The Summer of Jordi Perez (and the Best Burger in Los Angeles)
Seventeen, fashion-obsessed, and gay, Abby Ives has always been content playing the sidekick in other people’s lives. Then she falls for her fellow intern, Jordi Perez. Hard. And now she’s competing against the girl she’s kissing to win the coveted paid job at the end of the internship. Can Abby find a way to reconcile her positive yet private sense of self with the image others have of her? You can also check out this title as eBook on OverDrive/Libby or as eAudio on OverDrive/Libby.
You Should See Me in a Crown
A wallflower runs for prom queen in the hopes of winning her school’s scholarship and makes discoveries about her own identity and the value of true friendships. You can also check out this title as eBook on OverDrive/Libby or as eAudio on OverDrive/Libby, or as eAudio on Hoopla.