Reading out Loud: Celebrating LGBTQIA

EASY BOOKS Reading Out Loud Celebrating LGBTQIA Voices in Honor of Pride Month

Pride Colors by Robin Love is Love by Michael Stevenson Genhart BB Stevenson Also on Hoopla Available on Hoopla

Through gentle rhymes and colorful It's love that makes a family. When a photographs of adorable children, Pride boy confides in his friend about bul- Colors is a celebration of the deep lies saying he doesn't have a real unconditional love of a parent or family, he discovers that his friend's caregiver for a young child. The profound message of this delightful parents-a mom and a dad-and his board book is you are free to be two dads are actually very much yourself; you'll always be loved. alike.

Stonewall: A Building, An A Church for All by Gayle Uprising, A Revolution by Pitman Rob Sanders Available on Hoopla E Sanders In the early-morning hours of June 28, This simple, lyrical story celebrates a 1969, the Stonewall Inn was raided by Sunday morning at an inclusive police in New York City. It would be the church that embraces all people night when, empowered members of the regardless of age, class, race, gender LGBTQ+ community, began to protest identity, and sexual orientation. All and demand their equal rights as are welcome at the church for all! citizens of the United States.

Sparkle Boy by Lesléa And Tango Makes Three by Newman Justin Richardson E Newman E Richardson Also on Hoopla

Here is a sweet, heartwarming story In the zoo there are all kinds of about acceptance, respect, and the animal families. But Tango's family is freedom to be yourself in a world not like any of the others. where any gender expression should be celebrated. Sparkly things are for everyone to enjoy!

Additional Reads: Julián is a Mermaid by Jessica Love, Pride: The Story of Harvey Milk and the Rainbow Flag by Rob Sanders, Maiden and Princess by Daniel Haack, Prince & Knight by Daniel Haack CHAPTER BOOKS Reading Out Loud Celebrating LGBTQIA Voices in Honor of Pride Month

The Misadventures of the George by Alex Gino Family Fletcher by Dana Juv Gino; Also on Hoopla Levy Juv Levy BE WHO YOU ARE. When people look There’s Sam, who’s mostly interested in soccer, food, and his phone; Jax, who’s at George, they think they see a boy. psyched for 4th grade; Eli, who’s thrilled But she knows she's not a boy. She to be starting this year at the Pinnacle knows she's a girl. School; and Frog, who wants everyone to save a seat for his invisible cheetah. Also Dad and Papa.

The Other Boy by M. G. The Sword Of Summer by Hennessey Rick Riordan Juv Hennessey; Also on Hoopla Juv Riordan; Also on Hoopla Magnus Chase has always been a trou- When a classmate threatens to re- bled kid. Since his mother's mysterious veal his secret, Shane’s world comes death, he's lived alone on the streets of crashing down. It will take a lot of Boston, surviving by his wits, keeping courage to show the world that he’s one step ahead of the police and the still the same boy he was before. truant officers. One day, Uncle Randolph tells him an impossible secret: Magnus is the son of a Norse god.

The Stars Beneath Our Feet Gracefully Grayson by Ami by David Moore Polonsky Juv Moore Juv Polonsky; Also on Hoopla

The Stars Beneath Our Feet paints a Alone at home, Grayson glows, powerful portrait of a boy teetering immersed in beautiful thoughts and on the edge—of adolescence, of dreams. But at school, Grayson grasps at shadows, determined to fly under the grief, of violence—and shows how radar. Because Grayson has been Lolly’s inventive spirit helps him build holding onto a secret for what seems a life with firm foundations and open like forever: “he” is a girl on the inside, doors. stuck in the wrong body.

Additional Reads: Drama by Raina Telgemeier, This Would Make a Good Story Someday by Dana Levy, The Best Man by Richard Peck, The Parker Inheritance by Varian Johnson, Hurricane Child by Kheryn Callender YA Books Reading Out Loud Celebrating LGBTQIA Voices in Honor of Pride Month

Aristotle And Dante Discover More Happy Than Not The Secrets Of The Universe YA Silvera & RBDigital eBook YA Saenz & Hoopla After enduring his father's suicide, Audiobook his own suicide attempt, broken Fifteen-year-old Ari Mendoza is an friendships, and more in the angry loner with a brother in Bronx projects, Aaron Soto, six- prison, but when he teen, is already considering the meets Dante and they become Leteo Institute's memory- friends, Ari starts to ask questions alteration procedure... that he has never asked before. Georgia Peaches and Other Forbidden Fruit None Of The Above YA Brown, Hoopla YA Gregorio, hoopla eBook& Audiobook audiobook A groundbreaking story about a Joanna Gordon has been teenage girl who discovers she's in- out and proud for years, but tersex . . . and what happens when when her family moves they ask her secret is revealed to the entire her to do the impossible: to lie school. low for the rest of her senior year.

Boy Meets Boy If You Could Be Mine YA Levithan, RBDigital YA Farizan, Hoopla eBook & eBook, & Hoopla Audiobook Audiobook When Paul meets Noah, he thinks Seventeen-year-old Sahar has he's found the one his heart is been in love with her best friend, made for. Until he blows it. The Nasrin, since they were six. But school bookie says the odds are they live in Iran and their love 12-to-1 against him getting Noah could cost them their lives. back, but Paul's not giving up.

Additional Reads: Personal Effects by E.M. Kokie, The Meaning of Birds by Jaye Robin Brown, Everything Grows by Aimee Herman, LGBTQ+ Guide to Beating Bullying on Hoopla YA Audiobooks Reading Out Loud Celebrating LGBTQIA Voices in Honor of Pride Month

What If It’s Us? Far From You YA Albertalli & Hoopla YA Sharpe & Hoopla Audiobook Audiobook Told in two voices, when Arthur, a After Sophie Winters survives a summer intern from Georgia, and brutal attack in which her best Ben, a native New Yorker, friend, Mina, is murdered, she meet it seems like fate, but after sets out to find the killer. three attempts at dating fail they wonder if the universe is pushing them together or apart. Girls of Paper and Fire The Great American YA Ngan & RBDigital Whatever Audiobook YA Federle & Hoopla When Lei, seventeen, is stolen Audiobook from her home to become Quinn Roberts is a sixteen-year-old one of nine Paper Girls, the De- smart aleck and Hollywood hopeful mon King's concubines, she whose only worry used to be writing proves to be more fire than paper convincing dialogue for the movies he made with his sister Annabeth. Of course, that was all before

I Wish You All the Best This is Kind of an Epic Love YA Deaver & Hoopla Story Audiobook YA Callender & Hoopla After coming out as nonbinary, Audiobook Ben must leave home and goes to A fresh, charming rom-com about live with a sister and her husband Nathan Bird, who has sworn off hap- to finish the last year of high py endings but is sorely tested when his former best friend, Ollie, moves school. back to town.

Additional Reads: You Know Me Well by David Levithan, Honor Girl by Maggie Thrash, We Unleash the Merciless Storm by Tehlor Kay Mejia Adult Reading Out Loud Celebrating LGBTQIA Voices in Honor of Pride Month

All the Wrong Places by Ann Ask Me About Polyamory Gallagher by Tikva Wolf Available on Hoopla Available on Hoopla A hilarious and touching comic Brennan’s always thought of himself about polyamory, queer, and gen- as straight. But when sex is explicitly derqueer issues. If your relationships out of the mix, he finds himself or your gender are unconventional, drawn to Zafir for the qualities and you’ll find useful advice and plenty interests they share. of laughs in this compilation of the wildly popular webcomic Kimchi Cuddles. Tales of the City by Armistead Maupin Grease Bats by Archie Bongiovanni Available on Hoopla Available on Hoopla San Francisco, 1976. A naïve young sec- Grease Bats stars Andy, a trans retary, fresh out of Cleveland, tumbles genderqueer individual who is both headlong into a brave new world of tough and loving, and their BFF Scout, laundromat Lotharios, pot-growing land- an all-feelings-all-the-time mistake- ladies, cut throat debutantes, and Jock- maker. Andy and Scout are best buds, ey Shorts dance contests. The saga that roommates, and gay disasters. Along ensues is manic, romantic, tawdry, with their friends and plenty of beer, touching, and outrageous— they’re just trying to make it through unmistakably the handiwork of their 20s and navigate the dating world. Armistead Maupin. Hunger by Roxane Gay IRL by Tommy Pico Available on Hoopla Available on Hoopla In her phenomenally popular essays and long-running Tumblr blog, IRL follows Teebs, a reservation-born, Roxane Gay has written with queer NDN weirdo, trying to figure out intimacy and sensitivity about food his impulses/desires/history in the midst of Brooklyn rooftops, privacy in the age and body, using her own emotional of the Internet, street harassment, sui- and psychological struggles as a cide, boys boys boys, literature, coloni- means of exploring our shared alism, religion, leaving one's 20s, and a anxieties over pleasure, consump- love/hate relationship with English. tion, appearance, and health.

Additional Reads: This Book is Gay by Juno Dawson, Visions and Revisions by Dale Peck, Bettyville by George Hodgman, Night Sky with Exit Wounds by Ocean Vuong