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57 Bus: A True Story of Two Teenagers and And Tango Makes Three Richardson, Justin & As the Crow Flies Gillman, Melanie A black the Crime that Changed Their Lives Slater, Parnell, Peter At New York City's Central Park teenager with a non-heteronormative sexual Dashka This riveting nonfiction book for Zoo, two male penguins fall in love and start a identity finds herself stranded in a dangerous teens about race, class, gender, crime, and family by taking turns sitting on an abandoned and unfamiliar place: an all-white Christian punishment tells the true story of an egg until it hatches. 2005 youth backpacking camp. 2017 agender teen who was set on fire by RL 3.5 IL P-2 Simon & Schuster, Inc. RL 7 IL 6-8 Consortium another teen while riding a bus in Oakland, ___13647 …………………………….……. $20.69 ___160057 ……………………..…………. $31.12 California. 2017 RL 6.5 IL 7-12 Farrar, Straus, Giroux Archie's Pal Kevin Keller Parent, Dan Follows Ashes to Asheville Dooley, Sarah Twelve-year- ___149480 ……………………….…………. $20.45 Riverdale's newest resident Kevin Kendall as old Fella is swept away on a wild road trip by he meets Archie and his friends, falls in love her older sister Zany to fulfill their late Alan Cole Is Not a Coward Bell, Eric Hoping to with journalism, and is inspired to join the mother's dying wish. 2017 keep his older brother Nathan silent about his military. 2012 RL 4.9 IL 5-9 G. P. Putnam's Sons secret crush on another boy at their school, RL 7 IL 7-12 Random House ___136592 ……………….………………. $14.44 twelve-year-old Alan agrees to a ruthless ___112213 ……………………..…………. $16.99 sibling competition involving nearly At the Edge of the Universe Hutchinson, Shaun impossible tasks--from standing up to their Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the David When his best friend-turned-boyfriend demanding father to getting a first kiss. 2017 Universe Saenz, Benjamin Alire Fifteen-year- goes missing and seems to be remembered by RL 4.5 IL 4-7 HarperCollins old Ari Mendoza is an angry loner with a nobody else, Ozzie begins to believe that the ___149180 …………………….…………. $14.44 brother in prison, but when he meets Dante universe is shrinking and forges ties with a and they become friends, Ari starts to ask new friend while struggling to figure out what All Families Are Special Simon, Norma Students questions about himself, his parents, and his is happening. 2017 in Mrs. Mack's class describe their families-- family that he has never asked before. 2012 RL 5.2 IL 9-12 Simon & Schuster, Inc. big or small, living together or apart, with two RL 2.9 IL 7-12 Simon & Schuster, Inc. ___137126 ………………………..………. $15.29 moms or none--and learn why every family is ___69989 …………………………….……. $18.38 special and important. 2003 Beautiful Music for Ugly Children Cronn-Mills, RL 3.2 IL K-3 Albert Whitman Art of Being Normal Williamson, Lisa David Kirstin High school student Gabe, born Liz, ___7501 ……………………………………. $19.91 Piper, always an outsider, forms an unlikely struggles with issues of acceptance, bullying, friendship with Leo Denton who, from the first and first love, while forging a new gender Alliance Goodman, Gabriel After the suicide of day at his new school wants only to be identity and DJing an increasingly popular gay student Jamie Ballard, his straight best invisible, but when David's deepest secret gets alternative music show on public-access radio. friend Scott King and LGBT community out, that he wants to be a girl, things get very Mature content. Contains Mature Material member Carmen Mendoza decide to do messy for both of them. 2016 2012 something about the situation. 2013 RL 4.8 IL 9-12 Farrar, Straus, Giroux RL 3.9 IL 9+ North Star RL 3.9 IL 7-12 Darby Creek Publisher ___120053 ……………………..…………. $15.29 ___79126 ……………………………………. $7.62 ___5433550 ………………………………. $20.99 Art of Starving Miller, Sam J. A gay teen with Best Man Peck, Richard Archer has four important role models in his life--his dad, his Amazing Grace Hoffman, Mary Although a an eating disorder that he believes gives him grandfather, his uncle Paul, and his favorite classmate says that she cannot play Peter Pan supernatural mental clarity decides to teacher, Mr. McLeod, but when Uncle Paul in the school play because she is black, Grace infiltrate the life of a bully responsible for and Mr. McLeod get married, Archer's sixth- discovers that she can do anything she sets driving away his sister--an effort that grade year becomes one he'll never forget. her mind to do. 1991 ultimately leads to greater self-acceptance. 2017 2017 RL 3.5 IL K-3 Dial RL 9 IL 9-12 HarperCollins RL 4.1 IL 4-7 Penguin ___9207 ……………………………..……. $20.69 ___146078 …………………….…………. $20.45 ___138055 …………………..……………. $14.47

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Better Nate Than Ever Federle, Tim An eighth- Coming out and Seeking Support Rodi, Robert Drag Teen Self, Jeffery JT is a gay high school grader who dreams of performing in a Discusses the issues faced by gays when senior determined to get out of Clearwater, Broadway musical concocts a plan to run away coming out to friends and family and draws on Florida, and be the first person in his family to to New York and audition for the role of Elliot the personal experiences of others to offer go to college, even though he cannot figure in the musical version of "E.T." 2013 advice and support for everyone involved in out how to pay for it, until his friends convince RL 5.9 IL 4-7 Simon & Schuster, Inc. the process. 2017 him to compete in a drag teen competition ___81066 …………………….……………. $13.69 RL 6 IL 9-12 Mason Crest Publishers where the first prize is a college scholarship. ___126646 ………………………..………. $17.96 2016 Beyond Clueless Alsenas, Linas Fourteen-year- RL 7 IL 9-12 Scholastic Book Service old Marty Sullivan attends an all-girl Catholic Coming out as Transgender Brezina, Corona ___120881 ……….………………………. $15.29 high school while her best friend, Jimmy, goes Discusses revealing sexual orientation to to public school in a different town and when others, personal stories of those who have Drama Telgemeier, Raina Callie rides an he comes out of the closet, he finds a new come out, and the support network available emotional roller coaster while serving on the group of friends while Marty finds in the LGBT community and for their family stage crew for a middle school production of connections, and also confusion and and loved ones. 2017 "Moon over Mississippi," as various uncertainty, through her school's fall musical. 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Family Book Parr, Todd Represents a variety of Frannie and Tru Hattrup, Karen Looking Gentleman's Guide to Vice and Virtue Lee, families, some big and some small, some with forward to sharing the summer with her Mackenzi Vowing to make his yearlong trip only one parent and some with two moms or charismatic cousin, who must get away from across Europe his last hurrah before taking dads, some quiet and some noisy, but all alike his home after revealing his sexual over the family estate, Henry "Monty" in some ways and special no matter what. orientation, Frannie confronts difficult Montague instead lands himself and his best 2002 questions about identity, class and sexuality as friend, Percy, in the middle of a manhunt. 2017 RL 2 IL P-2 Little, Brown & Co. she becomes increasingly aware of her RL 5.8 IL 7-12 HarperCollins ___3891 ………………..…………………. $13.94 cousin's secret. 2016 ___151146 ………….……………………. $15.25 RL 5.2 IL 9-12 HarperCollins Family Fletcher Takes Rock Island Levy, Dana ___119199 …………….…………………. $15.29 George Gino, Alex Knowing herself to be a girl Alison Summertime brings the Fletcher Family despite her outwardly male appearance, back to Rock Island where the good times Gabi, a Girl in Pieces Quintero, Isabel Sixteen- George is denied a female role in the class play never end, but this summer the boys' favorite year-old Gabi Hernandez chronicles her senior before teaming up with a friend to reveal her lighthouse is all boarded up and with the help year in high school as she copes with her true self. 2017 from their new neighbors, the Garcia girls, the friend Cindy's pregnancy and friend RL 5 IL 3-6 Scholastic Book Service boys are determined to find out what is really Sebastian's coming out; her father's meth ___135606 …………..……………………. $12.91 happening with their lighthouse and saving it, habit; her cravings for food and cute boys; no matter what the cost. 2016 and, especially, the poetry that helps forge her Go, Billy, Go!: Being Yourself Blevins, Wiley Billy RL 4.7 IL 4-7 Random House identity. 2014 learns to overcome teasing and peer pressure ___120631 ………………………………. $12.91 RL 5.3 IL 7-12 Cinco Puntos Press as he realizes his dream of becoming a ___97779 ………………….………………. $16.78 cheerleader. 2016 Feather Courgeon, Remi Paulina, nicknamed RL 1.5 IL P-2 Red Chair Press Feather, leaves her piano to take up boxing, Gay & Lesbian History for Kids: The Century- ___102596 …………..……………………. $14.99 showing her father and brothers that she will Long Struggle for LGBT Rights, with 21 stand up for herself. 2017 Activities Pohlen, Jerome Offers a look at the Gracefully Grayson Polonsky, Ami Grayson, a RL 1 IL K-3 Consortium history of LGBT rights through personal stories transgender twelve-year-old, learns to accept ___160379 …………………..……………. $15.26 and firsthand accounts, and chronicles the her true identity and share it with the world. events, organizations, and influential leaders 2014 Fire Song Jones, Adam Garnet Shane is still of the movement. 2015 RL 4.6 IL 5-9 Polansky Ami Press/Hyperion reeling from the suicide of his kid sister, RL 5 IL 4-7 Chicago Review Press ___120699 ……..…………………………. $14.47 Destiny and tries to share his grief with his ___6011763 ………………………………. $15.26 girlfriend, Tara, but she is more concerned Great American Whatever Federle, Tim with her own needs to offer him much Gay Power!: The Stonewall Riots and the Gay Teenaged Quinn, an aspiring screenwriter, comfort. While his grieving mother Rights Movement, 1969 Kuhn, Betsy Examines copes with his sister's death while his best withdrawing from the world and Shane's how the Stonewall Riots in the Greenwich friend forces him back out into the world to dream of going to university are shattered, he Village neighborhood during June 1969 face his reality. 2017 feels the one person he can turn to is his friend helped start the gay rights movement in the RL 5.5 IL 9-12 Simon & Schuster, Inc. David, but they have to keep their relationship United States and around the world. 2011 ___139563 ……..…………………………. $16.03 a secret on the rez and David refuses to leave RL 7.8 IL 7-12 Twenty First Century Books for the city. 2018 ___49147 ……………………….…………. $28.95 Guyness: Deal with It Body and Soul Pitt, Steve RL 7 IL 9-12 Annick Press ___159933 ……………….………………. $16.11 Looks at issues relating to gender identity, and Gay Rights Movement Watson, Stephanie explores how boys can cope with the conflicts

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Heather Has Two Mommies Newman, Leslea I Am Jazz! Herthel, Jessica & Jennings, Jazz Inside of Out Thorne, Jenn Marie When her When Heather goes to playgroup, at first she Presents the story of a transgender child who best friend comes out as a lesbian, Daisy leads feels bad because she has two mothers and no traces her early awareness that she is a girl in the charge to end their school's ban on same- father, but then she learns that there are lots spite of male anatomy and the acceptance she sex dates for the homecoming dance, but a of different kinds of families and the most finds through a wise doctor who explains her local story goes viral and now everyone-- important thing is that all the people love each natural transgender status. 2014 including a cute college journalist--believes other. 2015 RL 3.3 IL K-3 Dial Daisy is gay, too. 2016 RL 2 IL P-2 Candlewick Press ___87553 …………………………………. $15.29 RL 7 IL 7-12 Dial ___95967 …………………………………. $14.44 ___121762 ………………….……………. $15.29 Identity and Gender Ogden, Charlie Explores Highly Illogical Behavior Whaley, John Corey the issue of gender identity, and discusses Introducing Teddy: A Gentle Story About Agoraphobic sixteen-year-old Solomon has how family, culture, and values shape our how Gender and Friendship Walton, Jess Errol's not left his house in three years, but Lisa is we perceive gender. 2017 best friend and teddy, Thomas, is sad because determined to change that, and to write a RL 5 IL 5-9 Crabtree Publishing Co. he wishes he were a girl, not a boy teddy, but scholarship-winning essay based on the ___135982 ………………………………. $14.68 what only matters to both of them is that they results. 2016 are friends. 2016 RL 4.4 IL 9-12 Penguin If I Was Your Girl Russo, Meredith Amanda RL 2 IL P-2 Bloomsbury ___122825 ……………..…………………. $16.03 Hardy only wants to fit in at her new school, ___119873 ………………..………………. $14.44 but she is keeping a big secret: she used to be History Is All You Left Me Silvera, Adam Secrets Andrew. Things get more complicated when It Looks Like This Mittlefehldt, Rafi Moving to a are revealed as OCD-afflicted Griffin grieves she falls for sweet, easygoing Grant, and new city and joining an evangelical church for his first love, Theo, who died in a drowning wants to share her life with him. 2016 despite his own reluctance, artistic Mike is accident. 2018 RL 5.2 IL 7-12 St. Martin's Press bullied by a father who wants him to play RL 5.5 IL 7-12 Random House ___137308 ………………………….……. $15.25 sports and toughen up, a situation that is ___155782 ………………….……………. $16.03 complicated by Mike's growing feelings for I'll Give You the Sun Nelson, Jandy A story of another newcomer. 2016 Hold Me Closer: The Tiny Cooper Story first love, family, loss, and betrayal told from RL 7 IL 9-12 Candlewick Press Levithan, D