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Boston Public Library We Are Pride Books about the LGBTQ+ Experience Booklist for Adults, Teens, and Children | 2020 The We Are Pride Booklist is a list of recent books for all ages concerning the diverse experiences of 700 Boylston Street the LGBTQ+ community and is a part of the Boston Copley Square Public Library's observance of Pride Month and LGBT History Month. bpl.org Boston Public Library Zenobia July By Lisa Bunker We Are Pride Zenobia July is starting a new life where she's able to live Books about the LGBTQ+ Experience openly as the girl she always Booklist for Adults, Teens, and Children | 2020 knew she was. When someone anonymously posts hateful memes on her school's website, Zenobia knows she's the one with the abilities to solve the mystery. J FICTION BUNKER L My Two Dads and Me/ CHILDREN My Two Moms and Me TEEN By Michael Joosten These two beautifully illustrated board books celebrate families with same-gender parents as The Afterward The Best at It moms, dads, and kids eat breakfast, get dressed, By Maulik Pancholy head to the park, and sing good-night lullabies. By E.K. Johnston Twelve-year-old Rahul, an Indian American J BOARD JOOSTEN M A not-so-reformed thief and an apprentice knight boy growing up in Indiana, works to find became famous for saving the world together. But something he’s good at, and questions Pride Colors is there room in their post-adventure lives for their his sexuality in this funny, semi- new relationship? A tale told in several timelines. By Robin Stevenson autobiographical, middle-grade novel. TEEN SCIFI FANTASY JOHNSTON E With adorable photos of babies, toddlers, J FICTION PANCHOLY M and families, this rhyming board book gently Beyond the Black Door affirms caregivers’ love for their children Hurricane Season while introducing the colors of the pride By A.M. Strickland By Nicole Melleby flag and the meaning behind each color. Soulwalker Kamai finds herself entranced by Eleven-year-old Fig’s father J BOARD STEVENSO R Vehyn, a mysterious spirit she encounters in is her whole world, and she the world of dreams, although she struggles to does her best to hide his Queer Heroes reconcile her infatuation with her lack of physical mental illness, including from attraction. As she investigates her mother's tragic By Arabelle Sicardi & social services. When a new death, can she trust that Vehyn is what he seems? Sarah Tanat-Jones (illustrations) neighbor moves in, she and her father both TEEN SCIFI FANTASY STRICKLA A slowly learn to let other people into their This group biography for kids lives in this poignant middle-grade novel. uses a mix of text and dynamic Brave Face full-color portraits to celebrate the achievements J FICTION MELLEBY N of fifty-three LGBTQ+ role models throughout By Shaun David Hutchinson history and from all around the world. “I wasn’t depressed because I was gay. I It Feels Good to Be Yourself: J BIOG HQ73.S56 2019 was depressed and gay.” In this memoir, A Book About Gender Identity Hutchinson shares his difficult journey By Theresa Thorn & Noah When Aidan Became a Brother growing up, which included an attempt to Grigni (illustrations) take his own life, and the road to recovery that finally convinced him things do get better. Some people are boys. Some people are girls. By Kyle Lukoff & Some people are both, neither, or somewhere TEEN RC569 .H88 2019 in between. This inclusive, vibrant picture book Kaylani Juanita (illustrations) gives kids and caregivers alike the vocabulary After Aidan realized he was a trans boy, he and Cosmoknights to talk with each other about gender. his parents fixed the parts of his life that didn’t By Hannah Templer J HQ77.9 .T497 2019 fit anymore. When Mom and Dad announce that they’re going to have another baby, Aidan Years after her best friend wants to do everything he can to make things was taken to serve as a prize The Midwinter Witch right for his new sibling from the very beginning. princess for a galactic combat By Molly Ostertag J PICTURE LUKOFF K sport, Pan is still seething. She In this graphic novel conclusion joins forces with two lesbian gladiators to destroy the patriarchal games from the inside of the Witch Boy series, Aster The Whispers decides to defy tradition in this boldly drawn graphic adventure. By Greg Howard and enter his family’s annual TEEN GRAPHIC COSMOKNI contest for witches, while Eleven-year-old Riley always Ariel struggles to accept her new family’s love thought his mother’s favorite and explore her relationship with Charlie. story about magical fairies that J GRAPHIC MIDWINTE WITCH grant wishes was made up. But after she disappears, he sets off with his friend Gary to find the Whispers available in audiobook and ask them to bring his mother home. J FICTION HOWARD G available in eBook award winner graphic novel available in audiobook available in eBook Our Dreams at Dusk By Yuhki Kamatani award winner Wilder Girls Terrified that he's been outed graphic novel as gay, high schooler Tasuku By Rory Power attempts suicide, but he is Body horror and claustrophobia stopped by the appearance of the define this tale of a school mysterious Someone-san. The community center beset by the body-warping Someone-san leads him to offers him not only a Tox. Amidst the outbreak, place to belong, but a vision of a happy future. Hetty will do anything to find her friend Byatt, even break quarantine TEEN GRAPHIC OUR DREAMS AT to brave the wild and warped woods. How to Be Remy Cameron TEEN FICTION POWER R By Julian Winters PET Remy Cameron is the likable and proud gay guy, By Akwaeke Emezi admired for his confidence. The only one who Jam has been told all her life that there are may not know Remy that well is Remy himself, no monsters anymore. That changes when BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR who needs to reconcile the labels that people Pet, a creature made of horns and colors and have attached to him with who he really is. claws, emerges from one of her mother's TEEN FICTION WINTERS J paintings. How do you save the world from monsters if no one will admit they exist? The Book of Pride: LGBTQ I Wish You All the Best TEEN SCIFI FANTASY EMEZI A Heroes Who Changed the World By Mason Deaver The Stars and the Blackness Thrown out by their parents for coming By Mason Funk out as nonbinary, Ben moves in with their Between Them In these interviews and sister and finishes high school in a new By Junauda Petrus photographs, OUTWORDS, a nonprofit town. As Ben learns to heal from their Told in two distinct voices, this dedicated to preserving the stories of LGBTQ+ trauma, what started as a disaster might people, presents inspiring accounts of leaders become their chance at a happier life. lyrical novel is the story of two black girls, one Trinidadian and and activists on the front lines of the movement. TEEN FICTION DEAVER M one American, finding love and happiness in a BIOG HQ73.3.U6 F86 2019 world that seems determined to deny them both. Kiss Number 8 TEEN FICTION PETRUS J Brown White Black: An American Family By Colleen A.F. Venable & at the Intersection of Race, Gender, Ellen T. Crenshaw (illustrations) Tell Me How You Really Feel Sexuality, and Religion Mads’ first seven kisses have been By Aminah Mae Safi By Nishta J. Mehra unremarkable at best, but nothing compares Years ago, when Sana Khan worked up the Mehra writes candidly about her wife, who to terrible kiss number eight and what follows. courage to ask Rachel Recht out, Rachel is white; her adopted son, who is black; and Navigating the aftermath, she deals with assumed it was a prank; beautiful people their experiences dealing with America's falling for her BFF and a huge family secret. never ask out nerdy film buffs. But now rigid ideas of race, gender, and sexuality. TEEN GRAPHIC KISS NUMBER EIGHT Rachel's senior film project needs a lead, Sana BIOG HQ75.53 .M44 2019 is the best fit, and they must work through Laura Dean Keeps Breaking their feelings so the camera can roll. Gender Queer: A Memoir Up With Me TEEN FICTION SAFI A By Mariko Tamaki & Rosemary By Maia Kobabe Valero-O’Connell (illustrations) These Witches Don't Burn Kobabe charts eir journey of Laura Dean is Frederica’s dream girl—but By Isabel Sterling self-identity as a nonbinary she maybe isn’t the best girlfriend. Even a Hannah, a witch who can control the elements, asexual person. E uses cryptic spirit medium warns her to break is convinced that the dark magic appearing soft lines and muted colors to depict the up with Laura, but the break ups never around her town is the work of a deadly sect of confusion of adolescent crushes, the seem to stick, and Frederica begins to witches. To defeat them, she must team up with coming out process, and the trauma and worry Laura Dean isn't the real problem. an unlikely partner: her dreaded ex-girlfriend. the fundamental violation of pap smears. TEEN GRAPHIC LAURA DEAN KEEPS TEEN FICTION STERLING I GRAPHIC HQ73 .K63 2019x Moth & Whisper We Set the Dark on Fire How We Fight for Our Lives: By Ted Anderson & Jen Hickman (Illustrations) By Tehlor Kay Mejia A Memoir The Moth and the Whisper are the greatest At the Medio School for Girls, By Saeed Jones thieves in the city, but few know that they young women are trained for Blending poetry and prose, Jones recounts disappeared six months ago, because one person one of two roles: running a his life as a young black gay man from the has been filling both roles since then: Niki, their husband’s household or raising South as he fights to carve out a place for talented and uncertain gender-fluid child.