Seeing yourself in popular media is a way that you can feel more connected to the world, that you are not alone. Thanks to a local librarian, we have started this List of YA books that people can read about LGBTQIA+ people like them.
Middle School:
Websites: LGBTQ Reads
- Hotdog Girl by Jennifer Dugan
- Once and Future by A.R. Capetta
- Ivy Aberdeen’s letter to the world by Ashly Herring
- Gracefully Grayson by Ami Polonsky
- The pants project by Cat Clarke
- Queer Heroes: Meet 53 LGBTQ heroes from past & present written by Arabelle Sicardi, Illustrated by Sarah Tanat-Jones
- All Out: the no-longer-secret stories of queer teens throughout the ages by Saundra Mitchell
- Aristotle and Danta discover the secrets of the universe by Benjamin Alire Saenz
- George by Alex Gino
- Hurricane Child by Kacen Callender
- Zenobia July by Lisa Bunker
- The Best at it by Muslim Pancholy
- Hazels theory of Evolution by Lisa Jenn Bigelow
- The Insiders by Mark Osborn
- Ana on the Edge by AJ Sass
- This is our Rainbow: 16 stories of Her, Him, Them, Us Edited by Katherine Locke and Nicole Melleby