Beautiful Music for Ugly Children Kirsten Cronn-Mills Gabe is a trans man in his last year of High School who finds a place on a Community Radio show to live out his true identity, or “play his B-side” as the teenage boy he is on the inside. The story has a tendency to focus on…
It’s Not Like It’s a Secret Misa Sugiura Sana Kiyohara is 16 and in the closet when her parents decide to move from predominantly white Wisconsin (where Sana knows of maybe 3 other Asian kids at her school) to a far more culturally and ethnically diverse California city. In the midst of finding a sense of…
Fun Home a Family Tragicomic Alison Bechdel “In this graphic memoir, Alison Bechdel charts her fraught relationship with her late father. Distant and exacting, Bruce Bechdel was an English teacher and director of the town funeral home, which Alison and her family referred to as the Fun Home. It was not until college that Alison,…
Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda Becky Albertalli Simon vs. the Homosapiens Agenda is a moving story that focuses on one teenage boy and all of his significant relationships – the boy who is blackmailing him, the other boy who he flirts with online but has never met, and his tight-knit friend group that seems…
I’ll Give You The Sun Jandy Nelson This story opens with 13 year old twins, Jude and Noah, who might as well be conjoined they are so close. We initially read this history through the lens of Noah, even though he is clearly the quiet and shy one of the two. When the story flashes…
Keeping You A Secret Julie Anne Peters With a steady boyfriend, the position of Student Council President, and a chance to go to an Ivy League college, high school life is just fine for Holland Jaeger. At least it seems to be. But when Cece Goddard comes to school, everything changes. Cece and Holland have…
Annie On My Mind Nancy Garden Annie on my mind is groundbreaking book is the story of two teenage girls whose friendship blossoms into love and who, despite pressures from family and school that threaten their relationship, promise to be true to each other and their feelings. This book is so truthful and honest. Defiantly…
Ask The Passengers A.S. King Ask the passengers, is the story of a girl named Astrid who is desperate to confide in someone, she can’t talk to her overly pushy mother, spacey father or sister who’s been pushing her away for years, Instead, Astrid spends hours lying on the picnic table in her back yard…
Worm Loves Worm Written by J.J Austrian Illustrated by Mike Curato 32 Pages As with many love stories, this one leads to marriage. Since they are worms and their gender is unclear, all their friends want to know is, who will wear the wedding dress? In the end they each wear parts of each other’s…
King and King Written by Linda De Haan Illustrated by Stern Nijland 32 Pages This is the well-known story of Cinderella with a twist. When the queen insists that her son get married, the Prince begrudgingly agrees. However, this is no easy feat. One by one all the bachelorettes of the land introduce themselves, hoping to…