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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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The Feeling of Falling in Love

Mason Deaver - PUSH
Format: Hardcover

From the bestselling author of I Wish You All the Best, comes a new kind of love story, about the bad decisions we sometimes make... and the people who help get us back on the right path.Perfect for fans of Red, White, and Royal Blue by Casey McQuiston and What If It's Us by Adam Silvera...
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Meet Cute Diary

Emery Lee
Format: Hardcover


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Sink or Swim

Tash McAdam - Orca Book Publishers; High Readability edition
Format: Paperback

Sixteen-year-old shy, socially awkward trans teen Bass reluctantly skips school and goes on a boat trip with his adventure-seeking girlfriend, Rosie. When a sudden storm smashes their boat on a rocky shore off a deserted island, Bass and Rosie struggle to make it to safety. Bruised and battling...
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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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Magical Boy Volume 1

The Kao - Graphix
Format: Hardcover

Although he was assigned female at birth, Max is your average trans man trying to get through high school as himself. But on top of classes, crushes, and coming out, Max's life is turned upside down when his mom reveals an eons old family secret: he's descended from a long line...
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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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The Best of Assigned Male

Sophie LaBelle - Jessica Kingsley Pub
Format: Paperback

Includes New and Never Before Seen Stories!. Follow young trans girl, Stephie, and her group of queer friends as they navigate school, family and relationships, and experiences of being trans.. Humorous and acerbic, this ground-breaking graphic narrative brilliantly explores the journey...
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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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Hell Followed with Us

Andrew Joseph White - Peachtree Teen
Format: Hardcover

A furious, queer debut novel about embracing the monster within and unleashing its power against your oppressors. Perfect for fans of Gideon the Ninth and Annihilation."A defining voice of our generation." -H.E. Edgmon, author of The Witch King"Hands down the best YA horror...
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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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I Was Born for This

Alice Oseman - Scholastic Press
Format: Hardcover

From the bestselling creator of HEARTSTOPPER and LOVELESS, a deeply funny and deeply moving exploration of identity, friendship, and fame. For Angel Rahimi life is about one thing: The Ark -- a boy band that's taking the world by storm. Being part of The Ark's fandom has given her everything...
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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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Cheer Up: Love and Pompoms

Crystal Frasier - Oni Press
Format: Paperback

Annie is a smart, antisocial lesbian starting her senior year of high school who's under pressure to join the cheerleader squad to make friends and round out her college applications. Her former friend BeeBee is a people-pleaser - a trans girl who must keep her parents happy with her grades...
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Stage Dreams

Melanie Gillman
Format: Book

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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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The (Un)popular Vote

Jasper Sanchez - Katherine Tegen Books
Format: Book

Red, White, & Royal Blue meets The West Wing in Jasper Sanchez's electric and insightful #ownvoices YA debut, chronicling a transmasculine student's foray into a no-holds-barred student body president election against the wishes of his politician father. Optics can make or break...

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What Makes You Beautiful

Bridget Liang - Lorimer
Format: Paperback

Logan Osborne knows he likes boys, but has not come out to his family or at school, and no one knows that he likes to sometimes wear girls' clothes and makeup. When he starts at a school for the arts he finds a wider range of gender and orientation being accepted. Logan is attracted...
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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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Dark and Deepest Red

Anna-Marie McLemore - Feiwel & Friends
Format: Hardcover

With Anna-Marie McLemore's signature lush prose, Dark and Deepest Red pairs the forbidding magic of a fairy tale with a modern story of passion and betrayal.Summer, 1518. A strange sickness sweeps through Strasbourg: women dance in the streets, some until they fall down dead. As rumors...
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Not Your Villain

C.B. Lee - Duet, an imprint of Interlude Press
Format: Paperback

Bells Broussard thought he had it made when his superpowers manifested early. Being a shapeshifter is awesome. He can change his hair whenever he wants, and if putting on a binder for the day is too much, he's got it covered. But that was before he became the country's most-wanted...
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Even If We Break

Marieke Nijkamp - Sourcebooks Fire
Format: Hardcover

"Immersive and captivating. Thrilling in every sense of the word." -- KAREN M. MCMANUS, #1 New York Times bestselling author of One of Us is Lying and One of Us is NextFrom #1 New York Times bestselling author Marieke Nijkamp comes a shocking new thriller about a group of friends...
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Between Perfect and Real

Ray Stoeve - Amulet Books
Format: Hardcover

Dean Foster knows he&;s a trans guy. He&;s watched enough YouTube videos and done enough questioning to be sure. But everyone at his high school thinks he&;s a lesbian&;including his girlfriend Zoe, and his theater director, who just cast him as a &;nontraditional&;...
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Trans Mission: My Quest to a Beard

Alex Bertie - Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover

A brave first-hand account of online personality Alex Bertie's life, struggles, and victories as a transgender teen, as well as a groundbreaking guide for transitioning teen.I guess we should start at the beginning. I was born on November 2nd, 1995. The doctors in the hospital took...
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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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Stay Gold

Tobly McSmith - HarperTeen
Format: Hardcover

Debut author Tobly McSmith delivers a coming-of-age teen love story about a transgender boy who's going stealth at his new Texas high school and a cisgender girl who is drawn to him, even as she's counting down the days until graduation. Perfect for fans of David Levithan, Becky...
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When the moon was ours.

Anna-Marie Mclemore - A Thomas Dunne Book for St. Martin's Griffin
Format: Hardcover

Longlisted for the 2016 National Book Award for Young People's LiteratureStonewall Book Award Honor"McLemore's second novel is such a lush surprising fable, you half expect birds to fly out of the pages ... McLemore uses the supernatural to remind us that the body's need to speak...
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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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Jess, Chunk, and the Road Trip to Infinity

Kristin Elizabeth Clark - Farrar
Format: Print book

The last time Jess saw her father, she was a boy. Now she's a high school graduate, soon to be on her way to art school. But first she has some unfinished business with her dad. So she's driving halfway across the country to his wedding. He happens to be marrying her mom's ex-best...
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The Art of Being Normal: A Novel

Lisa Williamson - Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Format: Hardcover

An inspiring and timely debut novel from Lisa Williamson, The Art of Being Normal is about two transgender friends who figure out how to navigate teen life with help from each other. . David Piper has always been an outsider. His parents think hes gay. The school bully thinks hes a freak....
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Lily and Dunkin

Donna Gephart - Delacorte Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover

"Gephart has written a story that will speak not just to one specific community, but to humanity as a whole." --VOYAFor readers who enjoyed Wonder and Counting by 7's, award-winning author Donna Gephart crafts a compelling dual narrative about two remarkable...
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Alex As Well

Alyssa Brugman - Henry Holt
Format: Book

Alex is ready for things to change, in a big way. Everyone seems to think she's a boy, but for Alex the whole boy/girl thing isn't as simple as either/or, and when she decides girl is closer to the truth, no one knows how to react, least of all her parents.Undeterred, Alex begins to create...
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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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A Quick & Easy Guide to Queer & Trans Identities

Mady G. - Limerence Press
Format: Paperback

A great starting point for anyone curious about queer and trans life, and helpful for those already on their own journeys!In this quick and easy guide to queer and trans identities, cartoonists Mady G and JR Zuckerberg guide you through the basics of the LGBT+ world! Covering essential...
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Zenobia July

Lisa Bunker - Viking Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover

The critically acclaimed author of Felix Yz crafts a bold, heartfelt story about a trans girl solving a cyber mystery and coming into her own.Zenobia July is starting a new life. She used to live in Arizona with her father; now she's in Maine with her aunts. She used to spend most...
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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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Blood Sport

McAdam, Tash - ORCA BOOK PUBL
Format: Book

Jason is sure his sister, Becca, was murdered, but he's the only one who thinks so. After finding a photograph Becca kept hidden, he decides to infiltrate a boxing gym to prove that she didn't die accidentally. As a transgender kid, Jason's been fighting for as long as he can remember,...

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