Deepest breath by Grehan, Meg 

BTSB Prebound(Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2021)

BTSB #: 401153 Available

Dewey: FAges: 8-12   
AR: 5.4 MG

Genres: Family Life

Subjects: Novels in verse Identity (Psychology) - Fiction Self-acceptance - Fiction Coming out (Sexual orientation) - Fiction Lesbians - Fiction Mother-daughter relationship - Fiction

Summary: Struggling with her feelings for a female classmate, an eleven-year-old Irish girl tries to confide in her mother, the person she trusts most in the world.

High five for Glenn Burke by Bildner, Phil 

BTSB Prebound(Farrar Straus Giroux, 2020)

BTSB #: 119809 Available

Dewey: FAges: 10-13   
AR: 4.1 MG Lexile: 690

Genres: Sports

Subjects: Burke, Glenn - Fiction Baseball - Fiction School stories Coming out (Sexual orientation) - Fiction Gays - Fiction Best friends - Fiction Friendship - Fiction Family life - Fiction

Summary: After researching Glenn Burke, the first major league baseball player to come out as gay, sixth-grader Silas Wade slowly comes out to his best friend Zoey, then his coach, with unexpected consequences.

Ivy Aberdeen's letter to the world by Blake, Ashley Herring 

BTSB Prebound(Little, Brown, 2018)

BTSB #: 124304 Available

Dewey: FAges: 12-14   
AR: 4.9 MG RC: 4.5 6-8 Lexile: 740 F&P: Z

Genres: Family Life

Subjects: Family life - Fiction Friendship - Fiction Artists - Fiction Lesbians - Fiction Coming out (Sexual orientation) - Fiction Tornadoes - Fiction

Summary: Twelve-year-old Ivy Aberdeen's house is destroyed in a tornado, and in the aftermath of the storm, she begins to develop feelings for another girl at school.

Ivy Aberdeen's letter to the world by Blake, Ashley Herring 

Paperback(Little, Brown, 2018)

BTSB #: 124316 Available

Dewey: FAges: 12-14   
AR: 4.9 MG RC: 4.5 6-8 Lexile: 740 F&P: Z

Genres:

Subjects: Family life - Fiction Friendship - Fiction Artists - Fiction Lesbians - Fiction Coming out (Sexual orientation) - Fiction Tornadoes - Fiction

Summary: Twelve-year-old Ivy Aberdeen's house is destroyed in a tornado, and in the aftermath of the storm, she begins to develop feelings for another girl at school.

Ivy Aberdeen's letter to the world by Blake, Ashley Herring 

Audio Book(Findaway World, LLC, 2018)

BTSB #: P04102 Available

Dewey: FAges: 12-14   


Genres: Family Life

Subjects: Family life - Fiction Friendship - Fiction Artists - Fiction Lesbians - Fiction Coming out (Sexual orientation) - Fiction Tornadoes - Fiction

Summary: Twelve-year-old Ivy Aberdeen's house is destroyed in a tornado, and in the aftermath of the storm, she begins to develop feelings for another girl at school.

Magic fish by Nguyen, Trung Le 

Paperback(Random House Graphic, 2020)

BTSB #: 481740 Available

Dewey: 741.5/NAges: 12-16   
AR: 3 UG Lexile: 400 HL

Genres:

Subjects: Graphic novels Coming out (Sexual orientation) - Fiction Identity (Psychology) - Fiction

Summary: Real life isn't a fairytale. But Tien still enjoys reading his favorite stories with his parents from the books he borrows from the local library. It's hard enough trying to communicate with your parents as a kid, but for Tien, 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? Graphic novel format.

One man guy by Barakiva, Michael 

Audio Book(Findaway World, LLC, 2014)

BTSB #: P02551 Available

Dewey: FAges: 13-18   


Genres: Family Life

Subjects: Gays - Fiction Coming out (Sexual orientation) - Fiction Love - Fiction Armenian Americans - Fiction

Summary: When Alek's high-achieving, Armenian-American parents send him to summer school, he thinks his summer is ruined. But then he meets Ethan, who opens his world in a series of truly unexpected ways.

You brought me the ocean by Sanchez, Alex 

Paperback(DC Comics, 2020)

BTSB #: 775620 Available

Dewey: 741.5/NAges: 14-18   


Genres:

Subjects: Graphic novels Coming out (Sexual orientation) - Fiction Identity (Psychology) - Fiction Gays - Fiction Superheroes - Fiction Ability - Fiction

Summary: Jake Hyde yearns for the ocean and is determined to leave his hometown in New Mexico for a college on the coast, and while his family and friends encourage him to stay, he must deal with his secrets of being gay and some strange new blue markings on his skin giving him a glow when he touches water. In graphic novel format.