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• If I Can Give You That

  Bulla, Michael Gray,

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  Seventeen-year-old Gael, a trans boy, learns to let his walls down while finding community, discovering his sexuality, falling in love, and navigating difficult family situations.

• The Ghost of You

  Bulla, Michael Gray,

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  An emotional novel that follows a transgender teen who must grapple with a friendship fracturing and a new romance blossoming, all while being haunted by a devastating loss.

• Felix Ever After

  Callender, Kacen

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  Felix Love, a transgender seventeen-year-old, attempts to get revenge by catfishing his anonymous bully, but lands in a quasi-love triangle with his former enemy and his best friend.

• This Delicious Death

  Cottingham, Kayla,

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  When four best friends with a hunger for human flesh attend a music festival in the desert they discover a murderous plot to expose and vilify the girls and everyone like them. This summer is going to get gory.

• I Wish You All the Best

  Deaver, Mason

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  After coming out as nonbinary, Ben must leave home and goes to live with a sister and her husband to finish the last year of high school.

• The Witch King

  Edgmon, H. E.,

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  Wyatt, a transgender witch, hides in the human world after he loses control of his magic, but his fiancâe, Emyr, a fae prince, is at risk of losing his throne if he does not find and marry Wyatt.

• Pet

  Emezi, Akwaeke

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  In a near-future society that claims to have gotten rid of all monstrous people, a creature emerges from a painting seventeen-year-old Jam's mother created, a hunter from another world seeking a real-life monster.

• The Passing Playbook

  Fitzsimons, Isaac

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  Spencer Harris is a proud nerd, an awesome big brother, and a David Beckham in training. He's also transgender. After transitioning at his old school leads to a year of isolation and bullying, Spencer gets a fresh start at Oakley, the most liberal…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Lucy, Uncensored

  Hammond, Mel

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  A road trip through gender identity, self-expression, and the thorny process of figuring out where you fit after high school as an out-and-proud transgender teen.

• Flyboy

  LeBlanc, Kasey

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  A story about a boy who visits a magic-filled circus in his dreams in order to escape reality, where his trans identity remains a secret.

• Meet Cute Diary

  Lee, Emery

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  Noah Ramirez thinks he's an expert on romance. He has to be for his popular blog, the Meet Cute Diary, a collection of trans happily ever afters. There's just one problem; all the stories are fake ... When a troll exposes the blog as fiction, Noah's…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Otherworldly

  Lukens, F. T.,

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  In a land where the supernatural is believed to be real, non-believer Ellery and familiar Knox from the Other World form an unexpected alliance to strike a deal that could alter their lives forever.

• Man O' War

  McCarthy, Cory

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  On a field trip to SeaPlanet, seventeen-year-old Arab-American high school swimmer River McIntyre has a chance encounter with Indy, a happy, healthy queer person, which sets off a wrenching journey of self-discovery, from internalized homophobia and…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Stay Gold

  McSmith, Tobly

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  Told in two voices, Pony, who is concealing his transgender identity at his new Texas high school, and Georgia, a cisgender cheerleader counting the days until she graduates, develop a complicated relationship.

• The Wicked Bargain

  Novoa, Gabe Cole,

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  El Diablo is in the details in this Latinx pirate fantasy starring a transmasculine nonbinary teen with a mission of revenge, redemption, and revolution.

• Even If We Break

  Nijkamp, Marieke

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  Friends Finn, Liva, Maddy, Carter, and Ever begin a farewell round of the game they have played for three years, but each is hiding secrets and the game itself seems to turn against them.

• If I Was Your Girl

  Russo, Meredith

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  Amanda Hardy only wants to fit in at her new school, but she is keeping a big secret, so when she falls for Grant, guarded Amanda finds herself yearning to share with him everything about herself, including her previous life as Andrew.

• Cemetery Boys

  Thomas, Aiden,

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  Yadriel, a trans boy, summons the angry spirit of his high school's bad boy, and agrees to help him learn how he died, thereby proving himself a brujo, not a bruja, to his conservative family.

• Always the Almost

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  Underhill, Edward

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  Sixteen-year-old trans boy Miles Jacobson's New Year resolutions include winning back his ex-boyfriend and winning the Midwest's biggest classical piano competition, but when a new, proudly queer boy moves to town, Miles reconsiders who he was and…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• This Day Changes Everything

  a Novel

  Underhill, Edward

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  Abby Akerman believes in the Universe. After all, her Midwest high school marching band is about to perform in the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade in New York City—if that’s not proof that magical things can happen, what is? New York also happens to…Read moreRead more of this annotation