Teens : Celebrate Pride: LGBTQ

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With prom and graduation around the corner, senior Leah Burke struggles when her group of friends start fighting.

3) This book is gay

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Dawson, Juno

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Book, eAudiobook, eBook

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The bestselling young adult non-fiction book on sexuality and gender!

Lesbian. Gay. Bisexual. Transgender. Queer. Straight. Curious. This book is for everyone, regardless of gender or sexual preference. This book is for anyone who's ever dared to wonder. This book is for YOU.

There's a long-running joke that, after "coming out," a lesbian, gay guy, bisexual, or trans person should receive a membership

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4) Girl mans up

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Girard, M-E

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In Ontario, Pen is a sixteen-year-old girl who looks like a boy. She's fine with it, but everyone else is uncomfortable--especially her Portuguese immigrant parents and her manipulative neighbor who doesn't want her to find a group of real friends--

5) Cinderella is dead

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Bayron, Kalynn

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"Queer black girls team up to overthrow the patriarchy in the former kingdom of Cinderella"--

6) Kissing Kate

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Myracle, Lauren

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7) The gentleman's guide to getting lucky

Kate was lissa’s best friend. they’ve shared everything for four years. then one night at a drunken party, Kate leaned in to kiss lissa, and lissa kissed her back. And now Kate is pretending lissa doesn’t exist. Confused and alone, lissa’s left questioning everything she thought she knew about herself, and about life. but with the help of a free-spirit new friend, lissa’s beginning to find the strength to realize that sometimes falling in...

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Lee, Mackenzi

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9) The stars and the blackness between them

Montys first intimate encounter with Percy is complicated by self-doubt and high anticipation.

8) these witches don t burn

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Author

Petrus, Junauda

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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.

10) What if it's us

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Albertalli, Becky

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Told in two voices, when Arthur, a summer intern from Georgia, and Ben, a native New Yorker, meet it seems like fate, but after three attempts at dating fail they wonder if the universe is pushing them together or apart.

11) Meet cute

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A collection of short stories exploring the moment when a couple meets for the first time--from an African American girl in upstate New York who simultaneously finds a prom dress and a date to a transgender girl who confronts the student blocking her right to use the school restroom.

12) Girl made of stars

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Blake, Ashley Herring

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eAudiobook, eBook, Kindle

When Mara's twin brother Owen is accused of rape by her friend Hannah, Mara is forced to confront her feelings about her family, her sense of right and wrong, a trauma from her past, and the future with her girlfriend, Charlie.

13) This Is Kind of an Epic Love Story

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Callender, Kacen

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~Lambda Literary Award finalist for the best LGBT YA novel of 2018~

A fresh, charming rom-com perfect for fans of Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda and Boy Meets Boy about Nathan Bird, who has sworn off happy endings but is sorely tested when his former best friend, Ollie, moves back to town.

Nathan Bird doesn't believe in happy endings. Although he's the ultimate film buff and an aspiring screenwriter,

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14) Picture us in the light

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Gilbert, Kelly Loy

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Daniel, a Chinese-American teen, must grapple with his plans for the future, his feelings for his best friend Harry, and his discovery of a family secret that could shatter everything.

15) Love & other carnivorous plants

Author

Gonsalves, Florence

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Nineteen-year-old Danny returns home after a disastrous first semester of college as a pre-med student and struggles with first love, grief, identity, and self-destructive behavior--

16) Social intercourse

Author

Howard, Greg

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Told from both viewpoints, Beckett Gaines, an out-and-proud choir member, and star quarterback Jaxon Parker team up to derail the budding romance between their parents.

17) Let's talk about love

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Kann, Claire

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Striking a perfect balance between heartfelt emotions and spot-on humor, this debut features a pop-culture enthusiast protagonist with an unforgettable voice sure to resonate with listeners. Alice had her whole summer planned. Nonstop all-you-can-eat buffets while marathoning her favorite TV shows (best friends totally included) with the smallest dash of adulting-working at the library to pay her share of the rent. The only thing missing from her...

18) Wilder girls

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Power, Rory

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19) Aristotle and Dante discover the secrets of the universe

Friends Hetty, Byatt, and Reece go to extremes trying to uncover the dark truth about the mysterious disease that has had them quarantined at their boarding school on a Maine island.

Author

Sènz, Benjamin Alire

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Book, Local Collection Book, Reference Book

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Fifteen-year-old Ari Mendoza is an angry loner with a brother in prison, but when he meets Dante and they become friends, Ari starts to ask questions about himself, his parents, and his family that he has never asked before.

20) Juliet takes a breath

Author

Rivera, Gabby

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Book, Graphic Novel

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