Birthday by Russo, Meredith 

BTSB Prebound(Flatiron, 2019)

BTSB #: 771907 In Bindery

Dewey: FAges: 13-18   


Genres: General Fiction

Subjects: Transgender women - Fiction Sexual orientation - Fiction

Summary: Six years of birthdays reveal Eric and Morgan's destiny as they come together, drift apart, fall in love, and discover who they're meant to be-and if they're meant to be together.

Darius the Great deserves better by Khorram, Adib 

BTSB Prebound(Dial Books, 2020)

BTSB #: 517036 Available

Dewey: FAges: 12-16   


Genres: Family Life Multicultural

Subjects: Family life - Fiction Dating (Social customs) - Fiction Gays - Fiction High schools - Fiction School stories Iranian Americans - Fiction

Summary: Darius Kellner has everything he thought he wanted--a new boyfriend, a new internship, and a spot on the soccer team--but growing up makes him question everything.

Far from the tree by Benway, Robin 

BTSB Prebound(HarperTeen, 2017)

BTSB #: 111728 Available

Dewey: FAges: 14-18   
AR: 5.1 UG RC: 5.7 9-12 Lexile: 780 HL

Genres: Family Life

Subjects: Adopted children - Fiction Siblings - Fiction Families - Fiction Lesbians - Fiction

Summary: An interweaving story of three very different teenagers connected by blood exploring the meaning of family in all its forms-how to find it, how to keep it, and how to love it.

Gabi, a girl in pieces by Quintero, Isabel 

BTSB Prebound(Cinco Puntos Press, 2014)

BTSB #: 736598 Available

Dewey: FAges: 14-18   
AR: 5.3 UG RC: 6.4 9-12 Lexile: 820 HL

Genres: Family Life

Subjects: High schools - Fiction School stories Pregnancy - Fiction Gays - Fiction Family problems - Fiction Mexican Americans - Fiction

Summary: Sixteen-year-old Gabi Hernandez chronicles her senior year in high school as she copes with her friend Cindy's pregnancy, friend Sebastian's coming out, her father's meth habit, her own cravings for food and cute boys, and especially, the poetry that helps forge her identity.

I'll give you the sun by Nelson, Jandy 

BTSB Prebound(Dial Books, 2014)

BTSB #: 670488 Available

Dewey: FAges: 13-17   
AR: 4.9 UG RC: 5.5 9-12 Lexile: 740 HL

Genres: Family Life

Subjects: Artists - Fiction Twins - Fiction Siblings - Fiction Gays - Fiction Grief - Fiction Death - Fiction Family life - California - Fiction California - Fiction

Summary: A story of first love, family, loss, and betrayal told from different points in time, and in separate voices, by artists Jude and her twin brother Noah.

Little & Lion by Colbert, Brandy 

BTSB Prebound(Little, Brown, 2017)

BTSB #: 226327 Available

Dewey: FAges: 14-18   
AR: 5.3 UG RC: 6.4 9-12 Lexile: 820 HL

Genres: Family Life

Subjects: Siblings - Fiction Family life - California - Fiction Dating (Social customs) - Fiction Bisexuality - Fiction Manic-depressive illness - Fiction Mental illness - Fiction California - Fiction

Summary: Suzette returns home to Los Angeles from boarding school and grapples with her bisexual identity when she and her brother Lionel fall in love with the same girl, pushing Lionel's bipolar disorder to spin out of control and forcing Suzette to confront her own demons.

Redwood and Ponytail by Holt, K. A. 

BTSB Prebound(Chronicle Books, 2019)

BTSB #: 461219 Available

Dewey: FAges: 14-17   
AR: 3.5 MG RC: 6.6 6-8 Lexile: NP F&P: Z

Genres: General Fiction

Subjects: Novels in verse Friendship - Fiction Interpersonal relations - Fiction Lesbians - Fiction High schools - Fiction School stories

Summary: Told in verse in two voices, with a chorus of fellow students, this is a story of two girls, opposites in many ways, who are drawn to each other; Kate appears to be a stereotypical cheerleader with a sleek ponytail and a perfectly polished persona, Tam is tall, athletic and frequently mistaken for a boy, but their deepening friendship inevitably changes and reveals them in ways they did not anticipate.

Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens agenda by Albertalli, Becky 

BTSB Prebound(HarperCollins, 2015)

BTSB #: 047759 Available

Dewey: FAges: 14-17   
AR: 4.4 UG RC: 4.7 9-12 Lexile: 640 HL

Genres:

Subjects: Secrets - Fiction Gays - Fiction Extortion - Fiction Friendship - Fiction Pen pals - Fiction High schools - Fiction School stories

Summary: Sixteen-year-old, not-so-openly-gay Simon Spier is blackmailed into playing wingman for his classmate or else his sexual identity--and that of his pen pal--will be revealed.

Stars and the blackness between them by Petrus, Junauda 

BTSB Prebound(Dutton, 2019)

BTSB #: 711120 Available

Dewey: FAges: 14-18   
Lexile: 890

Genres: Multicultural

Subjects: African Americans - Fiction Blacks - Trinidad - Fiction Lesbians - Fiction Trinidad - Fiction

Summary: Told in two voices, sixteen-year-olds Audre and Mabel, both young women of color from different backgrounds, fall in love and figure out how to care for each other as one of them faces a fatal illness.

Stonewall : breaking out in the fight for gay rights by Bausum, Ann 

BTSB Prebound(Viking, 2015)

BTSB #: 098279 Available

Dewey: 306.766/NAges: 12-16   
AR: 8 UG Lexile: 1180

Genres:

Subjects: Stonewall Riots, New York, N.Y., 1969 Gay liberation movement Gay men Lesbians Greenwich Village (New York, N.Y.)

Summary: A dramatic retelling of the Stonewall riots of 1969 introduces readers to the decades-long struggle for gay rights.

Viral : the fight against AIDS in America by Bausum, Ann 

BTSB Prebound(Viking, 2019)

BTSB #: 098284 Available

Dewey: 362.1969/NAges: 12-16   
Lexile: 1190

Genres:

Subjects: AIDS (Disease) - United States AIDS (Disease) - United States - History

Summary: Thirty-five years ago, it was a modern-day, mysterious plague. Its earliest victims were mostly gay men, some of the most marginalized people in the country; at its peak in America, it killed tens of thousands of people. The losses were staggering, the science frightening, and the government's inaction unforgivable. The AIDS Crisis fundamentally changed the fabric of the United States. The history of the AIDS crisis through the lens of the brave victims and activists who demanded action.

We are okay by LaCour, Nina 

BTSB Prebound(Dutton Books, 2017)

BTSB #: 536596 Available

Dewey: FAges: 14-18   
AR: 4.5 UG RC: 4.8 9-12 Lexile: 660 HL

Genres: Family Life

Subjects: Loneliness - Fiction Orphans - Fiction Grief - Fiction Grandfathers - Fiction Colleges and universities - Fiction Lesbians - Fiction

Summary: After picking up and leaving everything behind in California, eighteen-year-old Marin, with the help of her former friend, must confront her grief and the truths that caused her to flee her home.