Alice Austen lived here by Gino, Alex 

BTSB Prebound(Scholastic Press, 2022)

BTSB #: 380134 Available

Dewey: FAges: 9-12   
Lexile: 830

Genres: Humorous Fiction

Subjects: Austen, Alice,|d1866-1952 - Fiction Gender identity - Fiction Sexual minorities - Fiction Monuments - Fiction Contests - Fiction Middle schools - Fiction School stories Staten Island (New York, N.Y.) - History - Fiction

Summary: Middle school student Sam is comfortable with their nonbinary identity, and their family has accepted it too (as long as they do their homework and chores), so when their history teacher assigns as a project coming up with a proposal for the new statue honoring a historical Staten Islander (there is a contest involved) they and their friend TJ decide to focus on Alice Austen, a lesbian photographer, whose house on Staten Island is a museum.

Crownchasers [Crownchasers Volume: Book 1]by Coffindaffer, Rebecca 

BTSB Prebound(HarperTeen, 2020)

BTSB #: 225742 Available

Dewey: FAges: 14-18   
AR: 5.5 UG

Genres: Science Fiction

Subjects: Contests - Fiction Inheritance and succession - Fiction Kings and rulers - Fiction Sexual minorities - Fiction Science fiction

Summary: Intergalactic explorer Alyssa Farshot becomes the odds-on favorite to win a deadly cross-galaxy contest to become the quadrant's next emperor, even though she does not intend to win.