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Most Ardently: A Pride & Prejudice Remix (Remixed Classics, 9)

Gabe Cole Novoa - Feiwel & Friends
Format: Hardcover

In the Remixed Classics series, authors from marginalized backgrounds reinterpret classic works through their own cultural lens to subvert the overwhelming cishet, white, and male canon. This bittersweet Pride & Prejudice remix follows a trans boy yearning for the freedom to live openly,...
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This Day Changes Everything

Edward Underhill - Wednesday Books
Format: Hardcover

Dash & Lily meets Ferris Bueller's Day Off in Edward Underhill's new whirlwind rom-com about two queer teens who spend one life-changing day together in New York City. . Abby Akerman believes in the Universe. After all, her Midwest high school marching band is about to perform in the Macy's...
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Compound Fracture

Andrew Joseph White - Peachtree Teen
Format: Hardcover

NEW from bestselling and award-winning author Andrew Joseph White! . A queer Appalachian thriller that pulls no punches - following a trans autistic teen who's drawn into the generational struggle between the rural poor and those who exploit them.. On the night Miles Abernathy - sixteen-year-old...
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Bad Dream: A Dreamer Story

Nicole Maines - DC Comics
Format: Paperback

The never before told origin story of DREAMER: the first trans superhero ever to appear on TV!. Nia Nal's spent her whole life taking a back seat to her older sister, Maeve, who's expected to inherit their mother's Naltorian powers--the ability to see the future through dreams....
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Lockjaw

Matteo L. Cerilli - Tundra Books
Format: Hardcover

Death is neither the beginning nor the end for the children of Bridlington in this debut trans YA horror book for fans of Rory Power and Danielle Vega.. Chuck Warren died tragically at the old abandoned mill, but Paz Espino knows it was no accident - there's a monster under the town,...
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Otherworldly

F.T. Lukens - Margaret K. McElderry Books
Format: Hardcover

A skeptic and a supernatural being make a crossroads deal to achieve their own ends only to get more than they bargained for in this lively young adult romantic adventure from the New York Times bestselling author of Spell Bound and So This Is Ever After.. Seventeen-year-old Ellery is a non-believer...
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Out of Blue Comes Green

M.E. Corey - Page Street YA
Format: Hardcover

Kinkade wants what every other teenage boy wants: a girlfriend and a successful rock band but that's not as easy as it sounds.. After a killer school talent show performance in full masculine presentation, trans boy Kinkade is quickly knocked back down to earth when his crush rejects...
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The Borrow a Boyfriend Club

Page Powars - Delacorte Press
Format: Hardcover

A feel-good, coming-of-age rom-com from debut author Page Powars that follows a trans teen who joins a boyfriend borrowing service masquerading as an Italian Club to prove that he's one of the guys, especially to its frustratingly handsome leader.. Noah Byrd is the perfect boy. At least,...
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Venom & Vow

Anna-Marie McLemore - Feiwel & Friends
Format: Hardcover

Two enemy kingdoms are forced to work together to break a curse in this lush YA fantasy, featuring a transgender prince and a bigender dama/assassin in the lead roles.. Keep your enemy closer.. Cade McKenna is a transgender prince who's doubling for his brother.Valencia Palafox is a young...
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No One Left But You

Tash McAdam - Soho Teen
Format: Hardcover

A trans teen is swept up in a whirlwind friendship with lethal consequences in this taut YA thriller, for fans of Sadie, Andrew Joseph White, and HBO's Euphoria.. BEFORE. Newly out trans guy Max is having a hard time in school. Things have been tough since his summer romance, Danny,...
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Self-Made Boys: A Great Gatsby Remix (Remixed Classics, 5)

Anna-Marie McLemore - Feiwel & Friends
Format: Hardcover

Stonewall Honor recipient and two-time National Book Award Longlist selectee Anna-Marie McLemore weaves an intoxicating tale of glamor and heartache in Self-Made Boys: A Great Gatsby Remix, part of the Remixed Classics series.New York City, 1922. Nicolás Caraveo, a 17-year-old transgender...
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The Queer Girl is Going to Be Okay

Dale Walls - Levine Querido
Format: Hardcover

Queer Love. Something Dawn wants, desperately, but does not have. But maybe, if she can capture it, film it, interview the people who have it, queer love will be hers someday. Or, at least, she'll have made a documentary about it. A documentary that, hopefully, will win Dawn a scholarship...
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Constellations

Kate Glasheen - Holiday House
Format: Hardcover

A debut graphic novel about a queer teen living in the margins who is determined to find their way ahead.. Are you supposed to be a boy or a girl?. It's a question that follows Claire everywhere. Inescapable on the street, in school, and even at home. A black hole forever trying to pull...
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Out of the Blue

Jason June - ‎HarperTeen
Format: Hardcover

From Jason June, author of the breakout teen debut novel Jay's Gay Agenda, comes Out of the Blue, a stand-alone dual POV queer rom-com that asks if love is enough to change everything you've grown up believing. Perfect for fans of Cemetery Boys by Aiden Thomas and Deep Blue by Jennifer...
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The Spirit Bares Its Teeth

Andrew Joseph White - Peachtree Teen
Format: Hardcover

New York Times bestselling author Andrew Joseph White returns with the transgressive gothic horror of our time!. Mors vincit omnia. Death conquers all.. London, 1883. The Veil between the living and dead has thinned. Violet-eyed mediums commune with spirits under the watchful eye of the Royal...
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Transmogrify!: 14 Fantastical Tales of Trans Magic

g. haron davis - HarperTeen
Format: Hardcover

Perfect for fans of All Out and Cemetery Boys, this anthology claims a seat at the table of fantasy literature for trans and gender nonconforming stories. Transness is as varied and colorful as magic can be. In Transmogrify!, you'll embark on fourteen different adventures alongside...
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Always the Almost

Edward Underhill - Wednesday Books
Format: Hardcover

A trans pianist makes a New Year's resolution on a frozen Wisconsin night to win regionals and win back his ex, but a new boy complicates things in Edward Underhill's heartfelt debut YA rom-dram, Always the Almost.. Sixteen-year-old trans boy Miles Jacobson has two New Year's...
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Blackwater

Jeannette Arroyo - Henry Holt and Co. BYR Paperbacks
Format: Paperback

Riverdale meets Stranger Things in this debut queer YA graphic novel, developed from a hit webcomic. Set in the haunted town of Blackwater, Maine, two boys fall for each other as they dig for clues to a paranormal mystery. Tony Price is a popular high school track star and occasional delinquent...
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Welcome to St. Hell: My Trans Teen Misadventure: A Graphic Novel

Lewis Hancox - ‎Graphix
Format: Hardcover

A groundbreaking memoir about being a trans teen, in the vein of FUN HOME and FLAMER... and at the same time entirely its own.Lewis has a few things to say to his younger teen self. He knows she hates her body. He knows she's confused about who to snog. He knows she's really a he and will...
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Beating Heart Baby

Lio Min - Flatiron Books
Format: Hardcover

Lio Min's Beating Heart Baby is a tender best friends to enemies to lovers story with AAPI leads, celebrating first love, second chances, indie rock, and transitions of all kinds"Blistering, deeply emo, and shimmering with the messiness of intimacy, Beating Heart Baby is a dizzying,...
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Boys Run the Riot 1

Keito Gaku - Kodansha Comics
Format: Paperback

High schooler Ryo knows he's transgender, but he doesn't have anyone to confide in about the confusion he feels. He can't tell his best friend, who he's secretly got a crush on, and he can't tell his mom, who's constantly asking why Ryo "dresses like a boy."...
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Growing Up Trans: In Our Own Words

Lindsay Herriot - Orca Book Publishers
Format: Paperback

What does it mean to be young and transgender today? Growing Up Trans shares stories, essays, art and poetry created by trans youth aged 11 to 18. In their own words, the works illustrate the trans experience through childhood, family and daily life, school, their bodies and mental health....
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A Million Quiet Revolutions

Robin Gow
Format: Hardcover

A modern love story, told in verse, about two teenaged trans boys who name themselves after two Revolutionary War soldiers. A lyrical, aching young adult romance perfect for fans of The Poet X, Darius the Great is Not Okay, and Aristotle and Dante Discover the Universe.For as long as they...
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Violet Ghosts

Leah Thomas - Bloomsbury YA
Format: Hardcover

Dani's best friend, Sarah, is a ghost. But maybe that's normal when you've spent your childhood running from an abusive parent.Dani and Sarah might be more than friends, though Dani dares not say so. Dani is afraid that if he tells Sarah he's trans, she won't bother...
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The Witch King

H.E. Edgmon - Inkyard Press; Original edition
Format: Hardcover

Wyatt would give anything to forget where he came from - but a kingdom demands its king.In Asalin, fae rule and witches like Wyatt Croft ... don't. Wyatt's betrothal to his best friend, fae prince Emyr North, was supposed to change that. But when Wyatt lost control of his magic...
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The Passing Playbook

Isaac Fitzsimons - Dial Books
Format: Hardcover

Fifteen-year-old 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 private school in Ohio....
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All Kinds of Other

James Sie - Quill Tree Books
Format: Hardcover

In this tender, nuanced coming-of-age love story, two boys - one who is cis, and one who is trans - have been guarding their hearts, until their feelings for each other give them a reason to stand up to their fears. Two boys are starting over at a new high school. Jules is still figuring...
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Some Assembly Required: The Not-So-Secret Life of a Transgender Teen

Arin Andrews - Simon & Schuster BFYR
Format: Paperback

Seventeen-year-old Arin Andrews shares all the hilarious, painful, and poignant details of undergoing gender reassignment as a high school student in this winning first-of-its-kind memoir. Now with a reading group guide and an all-new afterword from the author! In this revolutionary first-of-its-kind...
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Felix Ever After

Kacen Callender - Balzer Bray
Format: Hardcover

From Stonewall and Lambda Award-winning author Kacen Callender comes a revelatory YA novel about a transgender teen grappling with identity and self-discovery while falling in love for the first time.Felix Love has never been in love - and, yes, he's painfully aware of the irony. He desperately...
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Cemetery Boys

Aiden Thomas - SWOON READS
Format: Hardcover

Yadriel has summoned a ghost, and now he can't get rid of him.When his traditional Latinx family has problems accepting his true gender, Yadriel becomes determined to prove himself a real brujo. With the help of his cousin and best friend Maritza, he performs the ritual himself, and then...
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Being Jazz: My Life as a

Jazz Jennings - ‎Crown Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover

Teen advocate and trailblazer Jazz Jennings - named one of "The 25 Most Influential Teens" of the year by Time - shares her very public transgender journey, as she inspires people to accept the differences in others while they embrace their own truths.



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Kiss Number 8

Colleen AF Venable - First Second
Format: Hardcover

Mads is pretty happy with her life. She goes to church with her family, and minor league baseball games with her dad. She goofs off with her best friend Cat, and has thus far managed to avoid getting kissed by Adam, the boy next door. It's everything she hoped high school would be ... until...
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Pet

Akwaeke Emezi - Make Me a World
Format: Hardcover

Pet is here to hunt a monster. Are you brave enough to look?There are no monsters anymore, or so the children in the city of Lucille are taught. Jam and her best friend, Redemption, have grown up with this lesson all their life. But when Jam meets Pet, a creature made of horns and colors...
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