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• Gender Queer

  Kobabe, Maia,

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  In 2014, Maia Kobabe, who uses e/em/eir pronouns, thought that a comic of reading statistics would be the last autobiographical comic e would ever write. At the time, it was the only thing e felt comfortable with strangers knowing about em. Now,…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Flamer

  Curato, Mike,

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  It's the summer between middle school and high school, and Aiden Navarro is away at camp. Everyone's going through changes--but for Aiden, the stakes feel higher. As he navigates friendships, deals with bullies, and spends time with Elias (a boy he…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• This Book Is Gay

  Dawson, Juno,

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  There's a long-running joke that, after coming out as a lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, or intersex person, you should receive a membership card and instruction manual. This is that instruction manual. You're welcome. Inside this revised and…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Milk and Honey

  Kaur, Rupi,

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  Milk and honey is a collection of poetry and prose about survival. About the experience of violence, abuse, love, loss, and femininity. The book is divided into four chapters, and each chapter serves a different purpose. Deals with a different pain.…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Looking for Alaska

  Green, John, 1977-

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  Sixteen-year-old Miles' first year at Culver Creek Preparatory School in Alabama includes good friends and great pranks but is defined by the search for answers about life and death after a fatal car crash. Challenged/banned due to LGBTQIA+ content,…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Two Boys Kissing

  Levithan, David

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  Based on true events--and narrated by a Greek Chorus of the generation of gay men lost to AIDS-- Two Boys Kissing follows Harry and Craig, two seventeen-year-olds who are about to take part in a 32-hour marathon of kissing to set a new Guinness…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• We Are the Ants

  Hutchinson, Shaun David,

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  Abducted by aliens periodically throughout his youth, Henry Denton is informed by his erstwhile captors that they will end the world in 144 days unless he stops them by deciding that humanity is worth saving. Henry Denton has spent years being…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Being Jazz

  My Life as a (transgender Teen)

  Jennings, Jazz,

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  Teen activist 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…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Dear Martin

  Stone, Nic,

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  Writing letters to the late Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., seventeen-year-old college-bound Justyce McAllister struggles to face the reality of race relations today and how they are shaping him. Challenged/banned due to violence, police brutality, and…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Monday's Not Coming

  Jackson, Tiffany D,

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  When her friend Monday Charles goes missing and Monday's mother refuses to give her a straight answer, Claudia digs into her disappearance. Monday Charles is missing, and Claudia seems to be the one person who notices. They've always been…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• All American Boys

  Reynolds, Jason,

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  When sixteen-year-old Rashad is mistakenly accused of stealing, classmate Quinn witnesses his brutal beating at the hands of a police officer who happens to be the older brother of his best friend. Told through Rashad and Quinn's alternating…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• This One Summer

  Tamaki, Mariko,

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  Rose and her parents have been going to Awago Beach since she was a little girl. It's her summer getaway, her refuge. Her friend Windy is always there, too, like the little sister she never had, completing her summer family. But this summer is…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Me and Earl and the Dying Girl

  a Novel

  Andrews, Jesse

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  Seventeen-year-old Greg has managed to become part of every social group at his Pittsburgh high school without having any friends, but his life changes when his mother forces him to befriend Rachel, a girl he once knew in Hebrew school who has…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Out of Darkness

  Perez, Ashley Hope

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  Loosely based on a school explosion that took place in New London, Texas in 1937, this is the story of two teenagers: Naomi, who is Mexican, and Wash, who is black, and their dealings with race, segregation, love, and the forces that destroy people.…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Perks of Being a Wallflower

  Chbosky, Stephen

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  A tale of adolescence whose hero is Charlie, a high school freshman in Pennsylvania. The novel follows Charlie as he is introduced to love, literature and pot. Challenged/banned due to depiction of sexual abuse, LGBTQIA+ content, drug use,…Read moreRead more of this annotation