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Infinity Alchemist

Kacen Callender - Tor Teen
Format: Hardcover

Infinity Alchemist is a spellbinding fantasy novel about a quest that leads three young alchemists toward dangerous truth, legendary love, and extraordinary power. With their signature "prowess" (FIYAH) and "unbridled creativity" (New York Times Book Review) , acclaimed...
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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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Salt the Water

Candice Iloh - Dutton Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover

Cerulean Gene is free everywhere except school, where they're known for repeatedly challenging authority. Raised in a free-spirited home by two loving parents who encourage Cerulean to be their full self, they've got big dreams of moving cross-country to live off the grid with their...
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Punk Rock Karaoke

Bianca Xunise - Viking Books for Young Readers
Format: Paperback

"Stole my heart from the first page to the last. Endlessly funny and sincere." --Tillie Walden, Eisner & Ignatz Award-winning cartoonist. A debut graphic novel from Ignatz Award-winning and nationally syndicated cartoonist, Bianca Xunise.. When life gives you guitars, smash them!School...
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The Baker and the Bard: A Cozy Fantasy Adventure

Fern Haught - Feiwel & Friends
Format: Paperback

Author-artist Fern Haught weaves an enchanting, gentle fantasy tale of friendship, determination, and respecting nature in their debut graphic novel, The Baker and the Bard. Perfect for fans of The Tea Dragon Society, Legends & Lattes, and Animal Crossing.Juniper and Hadley have a good...
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Have You Seen This Girl

Nita Tyndall - HarperTeen
Format: Hardcover

Fans of Courtney Summers and Tess Sharpe will devour this standalone YA thriller following a nonbinary teen investigating a series of copycat murders targeting girls in their small town - murders based on their serial killer dad's MO.Another girl has gone missing in Cardinal Creek.Sid...
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Okay, Cupid

Mason Deaver - PUSH
Format: Hardcover

From the bestselling author of I WISH YOU ALL THE BEST, the story of a cupid who thinks they know everything about love... until they fall in love themselves.As a cupid, Jude thinks they understand love a little bit more than the average human. It makes sense -- Jude's been studying...
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Time and Time Again

Chatham Greenfield - Bloomsbury YA
Format: Hardcover

In this debut YA speculative romance perfect for fans of Rachael Lippincott, two queer, disabled, Jewish teens find themselves stuck in a time loop--and falling love.. Phoebe Mendel's day is never ending--literally.. On August 6th, she woke up to find herself stuck in a time loop. And for nearly...
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Homebody

Theo Parish - HarperAlley
Format: Paperback

In their comics debut, Theo Parish masterfully weaves an intimate and defiantly hopeful memoir about the journey one nonbinary person takes to find a home within themself. Combining traditional comics with organic journal-like interludes, Theo takes us through their experiences with the hundred...
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Godly Heathens: A Novel (The Ouroboros, 1)

H.E. Edgmon - Wednesday Books
Format: Hardcover

Godly Heathens is the first book in H.E. Edgmon's YA contemporary fantasy duology The Ouroboros, in which a teen, Gem, finds out they're a reincarnated god from another world. . Maybe I have always just been bad at being human because I'm not one.. Gem Echols is a nonbinary...
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The Sunbearer Trials (The Sunbearer Duology, 1)

AIDEN THOMAS - Feiwel & Friends
Format: Hardcover

Welcome to The Sunbearer Trials, where teen semidioses compete in a series of challenges with the highest of stakes, in this electric new Mexican-inspired fantasy from Aiden Thomas, the New York Times bestselling author of Cemetery Boys."Only the most powerful and honorable semidioses...
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The Mermaid, the Witch, and the Sea

Maggie Tokuda-Hall - Candlewick
Format: Hardcover

In a world divided by colonialism and threaded with magic, a desperate orphan turned pirate and a rebellious imperial lady find a connection on the high seas.The pirate Florian, born Flora, has always done whatever it takes to survive - including sailing under false flag on the Dove as a marauder,...
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Ander & Santi Were Here: A Novel

Jonny Garza Villa - Wednesday Books
Format: Hardcover

Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe meets The Sun is Also a Star in this YA contemporary love story from Jonny Garza Villa, Ander and Santi Were Here, about a nonbinary Mexican American teen falling for the shy new waiter at their family's taqueria.. Finding home....
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Paper Planes

Jennie Wood - Mad Cave Studios
Format: Paperback

After a life altering incident, Dylan and Leighton are sent to a summer camp for troubled youth. Can Dylan and Leighton save their friendship and protect their future while trying to survive camp?. Former best friends Dylan Render and Leighton Worthington attempt to successfully navigate...
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The Wicked Bargain

Gabe Cole Novoa - Random House Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover

El Diablo is in the details in this Latinx pirate fantasy starring a transmasculine nonbinary teen with a mission of revenge, redemption, and revolution.. On Mar León de la Rosa's sixteenth birthday, el Diablo comes calling. Mar is a transmasculine nonbinary teen pirate hiding a magical...
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Bianca Torre Is Afraid of Everything

Justine Pucella Winans - ‎Clarion Books
Format: Hardcover

Murder most fowl? In this sardonic and campy YA thriller, an anxious, introverted nonbinary teen birder somehow finds themself investigating a murder with their neighbor/fellow anime lover, all while falling for a cute girl from their birding group...and trying not to get killed next. Sixteen-year-old...
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Lark & Kasim Start a Revolution

KACEN CALLENDER - Amulet Books
Format: Book

Lark Winters wants to be a writer, and for now that means posting on their social media accounts--anything to build their platform. When former best friend Kasim accidentally posts a thread on Lark's Twitter declaring his love for a secret, unrequited crush, Lark's tweets are suddenly...

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The Many Half-Lived Lives of Sam Sylvester

Maya MacGregor - ‎Astra Young Readers
Format: Book

In this queer contemporary YA mystery, a nonbinary teen with autism realizes they must not only solve a 30-year-old mystery but also face the demons lurking in their past in order to live a satisfying life. Sam Sylvester has long collected stories of half-lived lives - of kids who died...

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The Hazards of Love Vol. 1: Bright World

Stan Stanley - Oni Press
Format: Paperback

Amparo's deal with the talking cat was simple: a drop of blood and Amparo's name to become a better person. Their mother and abuela would never worry about them again, and they'd finally be worthy of dating straight-A student Iolanthe. But when the cat steals their body, becoming...
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The Honeys

RYAN LA SALA - PUSH
Format: Book

Mars has always been the lesser twin, the shadow to his sister Caroline's radiance. But when Caroline dies under horrific circumstances, Mars is propelled to learn all he can about his once-inseparable sister who'd grown tragically distant. Mars's genderfluidity means he's...

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The Heartbreak Bakery

A. R. Capetta - Candlewick
Format: Hardcover

"What's done is done."Unless, of course, it was done by my brownies. Then it's getting undone.Syd (no pronouns, please) has always dealt with big, hard-to-talk-about things by baking. Being dumped is no different, except now Syd is baking at the Proud Muffin, a queer...
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Lakelore

Anna-Marie McLemore - Feiwel & Friends
Format: Hardcover

In this young adult novel by award-winning author Anna-Marie McLemore, two non-binary teens are pulled into a magical world under a lake - but can they keep their worlds above water intact Everyone who lives near the lake knows the stories about the world underneath it, an ethereal landscape...
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Mooncakes

Suzanne Walker - Lion Forge
Format: Paperback

"Mooncakes is spellbinding. It had everything I love in a story -- magic that felt inventive, characters that became my friends, and a romance that felt truly authentic. It was one of those books that I was sad to see end. Luckily, I can always reread." -- Tillie Walden, creator...
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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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Can't Take That Away

Steven Salvatore
Format: Book

Carey Parker dreams of being a diva, and bringing the house down with song. But despite their talent, emotional scars from an incident with a homophobic classmate and their grandmother's spiraling dementia make it harder and harder for Carey to find their voice.

Then...

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AQuick&EasyGuidetoThey/ThemPronouns

Archie Bongiovanni - Limerence Press
Format: Paperback

A quick, easy and important educational comic guide to using gender-neutral pronouns."A great, simple look at the importance of using correct pronouns; extremely accessible to those for whom gender-neutral language is a new concept." -- School Library Journal (starred review)...
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Beyond Gender Binaries: The History of Trans, Intersex, and Third-Gender Individuals (History of the LGBTQ Rights Movement)

Rita Santos - Rosen Young Adult
Format: December 30

While transgender people have been called many different things by different cultures, they have always existed. This book traces the history of how transgender, third gender, and other varieties of gender-nonconforming individuals have functioned in various societies. It documents how different...
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Everything You Need to Know About Nonbinary Gender Identities

Anita Louise McCormick
Format: Hardcover


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Beyond the Gender Binary

Alok Vaid-Menon - Penguin Workshop
Format: Paperback

Pocket Change Collective was born out of a need for space. Space to think. Space to connect. Space to be yourself. And this is your invitation to join us. In Beyond the Gender Binary, poet, artist, and LGBTQIA rights advocate Alok Vaid-Menon deconstructs, demystifies, and reimagines the gender...
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