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"Activist Miles McKenna came out on his YouTube channel in 2017, documenting his transition to help other teens navigate their identities and take charge of their own coming out stories. From that wisdom comes Out!, the ultimate YA guide to the queer lifestyle. Find validation, inspiration, and support for your questions big and small-whether you're exploring your identity or seeking to understand the experience of an awesome queer person in your...
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Dutton
Pub. Date
c2011
Description
A collection of original essays and expanded testimonials written to teens from celebrities, political leaders, and everyday people. While many of these teens can't see a positive future for themselves, we can. We can show LGBT youth the kind of happiness, potential, and satisfaction their lives hold if they can just get through these early years.
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Skyscape
Pub. Date
[2021]
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Julián Luna has a plan for his life: Graduate. Get into UCLA. And have the chance to move away from Corpus Christi, Texas, and the suffocating expectations of others that have forced Jules into an inauthentic life. Then in one reckless moment, with one impulsive tweet, his plans for a low-key nine months are thrown--literally--out the closet. The downside: the whole world knows, and Jules has to prepare for rejection. The upside: Jules now has...
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"Corinne Parker is a runner. She runs on her high school's cross-country team and in the woods behind her house. She runs away from her flighty, alcoholic mother and her clueless father. And she runs from the truth she won't admit to herself, or to anyone?that she's bisexual, and she's dating Maggie Bailey, the captain of the rival cross-country team. But then Maggie dies, and Corinne has no one to turn to. Not her parents; not the best friend she's...
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"Piper Kitts has dreams. Ride in the Olympics. Win back the girl. Get over her fear of driving. But right now, she's going nowhere fast, and when she's offered the chance to train in North Carolina, she leaps at the opportunity to leave her broken heart behind. Kat Pearson has her guard up. Her family won't care if she comes out, but her hometown is too small to color outside the lines. The last thing Kat wants is a label she can't shake, especially...
8) Time out
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Simon & Schuster BFYR
Pub. Date
[2023]
Description
When high school basketball star Barclay Elliot comes out during the biggest pep rally in the town's history, he is faced with unexpected hostility until his best friend Amy introduces him to Christopher, who offers him a real shot at love.
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Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2016.
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"Ashleigh Walker is a mediocre student with an assortment of friends, a sort-of boyfriend, and no plans for the future. Then a straight-from-college English teacher, Miss Murray, takes over Ash's class and changes everything. Miss Murray smiles a lot. She shares poetry with curse words in it. She's, well, "cool." And she seems to really care about her students. About Ashleigh. For the first time, Ash feels an urge to try harder. To give something...
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Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2019.
Description
Emma Nolan wants only one thing before she graduates: to dance with her girlfriend at the senior prom. But in her small town of Edgewater, Indiana, that's like asking for the moon. Alyssa Greene is her high school's "it" girl: popular, head of student council, and daughter of the PTA president. She also has a secret. She's been dating Emma for the last year and a half. When word gets out that Emma plans to bring a girl as her date, it stirs a community-wide...
14) Flamer
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Godwin Books/Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2020.
Description
"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 can't stop thinking about), he finds himself on a path of self-discovery and acceptance"--Back cover.
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Jessica Kingsley Publishers
Pub. Date
2021.
Description
"'We don't just come out once. We have to come out continually throughout our lives. And as we grow and change and reach a newfound understanding of who we are, we come out once again in a whole new way.' Following the interconnected lives of a diverse queer community - including asexual, polyamorous, trans and autigender people - this empowering graphic novel explores the multitude of ways a person's identity and relationships can be expressed and...
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Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
2020.
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"From her first communion to her first girlfriend via a swathe of self-denial, awkward encounters, and everyday courage, Ellie tells her coming-out story through ... illustrations--a fresh and funny self-portrait of a young woman becoming herself"--Publisher marketing.
17) Spinning
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First Second
Pub. Date
2017.
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Ignatz Award winner Tillie Walden's powerful graphic memoir captures what it's like to come of age, come out, and come to terms with leaving behind everything you used to know. It was the same every morning. Wake up, grab the ice skates, and head to the rink while the world was still dark. Weekends were spent in glitter and tights at competitions. Perform. Smile. And do it again. She was good. She won. And she hated it. For ten years, figure skating...
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Jessica Kingsley Publishers
Pub. Date
2021.
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"Brave, witty and empowering, this graphic memoir follows Rebecca as they navigate their asexual identity and mental health in a world obsessed with sex. From school to work to relationships, this book offers an unparalleled insight into asexuality."--Provided by publisher.
20) The magic fish
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Publisher
RH Graphic
Pub. Date
[2020]
Description
"It's hard enough trying to communicate with your parents as a kid, but for Tié̂n, he doesn't even have the right words because his parents are struggling with their English. Is there a Vietnamese word for what he's going through? Is there a way to tell them he's gay?"--
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