JEF - LGBTQIA - Teens | MAIN Libraries

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1) Gender rebels: 30 trans, nonbinary, and gender expansive heroes past and present

Author

Locke, Katherine

Description

"Explore the history to trans and nonbinary people throughout history and the world in this gorgeously illustrated nonfiction book for young teens. Readers will be educated and enlightened about trans and nonbinary people who have made a difference in our world and who continue to help raise awareness of diversity and inclusion in current society. Introductory materials give readers an insight into pronoun usage, trans rights around the globe, the...

2) The prince and the dressmaker

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Prince Sebastian is looking for a bride or rather, his parents are looking for one for him. Sebastian is too busy hiding his secret life from everyone. At night he puts on daring dresses and takes Paris by storm as the fabulous Lady Crystallia the hottest fashion icon in the world capital of fashion!

3) The rest of us just live here

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What if you aren't the Chosen One? The one who's supposed to fight the zombies, or the soul-eating ghosts, or whatever the heck this new thing is, with the blue lights and the death? What if you're like Mikey? Who just wants to graduate and go to prom and maybe finally work up the courage to ask Henna out before someone goes and blows up the high school. Again. Because sometimes there are problems bigger than this week's end of the world, and sometimes...

4) The Ask and the Answer

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Chaos walking volume 2

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Book, eBook, Kindle

Description

Alternate chapters follow teenagers Todd and Viola, who become separated as the Mayor's oppressive new regime takes power in New Prentisstown, a space colony where residents can hear each other's thoughts.

5) Burn

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Book, Audiobook CD, eAudiobook, eBook, Kindle

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Sarah's family hires a dragon to work on their farm, a last resort for poor families, but when she notices her dragon acting erratically, she uncovers a prophecy linking her to a deadly assassin, a dragon-worshipping cult and two FBI agents.

6) We set the dark on fire

Author

Mejia, Tehlor Kay

Series

We set the dark on fire volume 1

Description

"Dani must question everything she's worked for as she learns about the corruption of the Median government."-- At the Medio School for Girls, distinguished young women are trained for one of two roles in their polarized society. Depending on her specialization, a graduate will one day run a husband's household or raise his children, but both wives are promised a live of comfort and luxury, far from the frequent political uprisings of the lower class....

7) Leah on the offbeat

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Albertalli, Becky

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Book, Audiobook CD, eAudiobook, eBook, Kindle, Playaway/Launchpad

Description

With prom and graduation around the corner, senior Leah Burke struggles when her group of friends start fighting.

8) You should see me in a crown

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Book, eAudiobook

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Liz Lighty has always done her best to avoid the spotlight in her small, wealthy, and prom-obsessed midwestern high school, after all, her family is black and rather poor, especially since her mother died; instead she has concentrated on her grades and her musical ability in the hopes that it will win her a scholarship to elite Pennington College and their famous orchestra where she plans to study medicine--but when that scholarship falls through...

9) This book is gay

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Book, eBook, Kindle

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A British author of teen fiction offers basic information about the gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender experience, including terms, religious issues, coming out, and sex acts, for people of all orientations, including the merely curious.

10) Pet

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In a near-future society that claims to have gotten rid of all monstrous people, a creature emerges from a painting seventeen-year-old Jam's mother created, a hunter from another world seeking a real-life monster. There are no monsters anymore. In the city of Lucille, Jam and her best friend, Redemption, have grown up with this lesson all their life. Then Jam meets Pet, a creature made of horns and colors and claws, who emerges from one of her mother's...

11) Lost in the Never Woods

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When children start to go missing in the local woods, eighteen-year-old Wendy Darling must face her fears and a past she cannot remember to rescue them in this novel based on Peter Pan.

12) Birthday: a novel

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Russo, Meredith

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Book, eAudiobook

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Eric: There was the day we were born. There was the minute Morgan and I decided we were best friends for life. The years where we stuck by each other's side; as Morgan's mom died, as he moved across town, as I joined the football team, as my parents started fighting. But sometimes I worry that Morgan and I won't be best friends forever. That there'll be a day, a minute, a second, where it all falls apart and there's no turning back the clock. Morgan:...

13) A long way from Chicago: a novel in stories

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Penguin modern classics

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Book, Audiobook CD

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A boy recounts his annual summer trips to rural Illinois with his sister during the Great Depression to visit their larger-than-life grandmother.

14) A year down yonder

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In 1937, during the Depression, fifteen-year-old Mary Alice, initially apprehensive about leaving Chicago to spend a year with her fearsome, larger-than-life grandmother in rural Illinois, gradually begins to better understand and admire her grandmother's unusual qualities.

15) Ten rules for living with my sister

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Nine-year-old Pearl and her popular, thirteen-year-old sister, Lexie, do not get along very well, but when their grandfather moves in and the girls have to share a room, they must find common ground.

16) A corner of the universe

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The summer that Hattie turns twelve, she meets the childlike uncle she never knew and becomes friends with a girl who works at the carnival that comes to Hattie's small town.

17) A dog's life: the autobiography of a stray

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Squirrel, a stray puppy, tells her life story, from her nurturing mother and brother to making her own way in the world, facing busy highways, changing seasons, and humans both gentle and brutal.

18) Kristy's great idea

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Baby-sitters Club (revised editions) volume 1

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Book, eBook, Graphic Novel, Kindle

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"When Kristy Thomas has the great idea to form a baby- sitters club--a chance to earn money and spend time with her friends, all while doing something they each love to do--she has no idea how much the club will change everything. Crank calls, uncontrollable toddlers, wild pets, untruthful clients . . . running a business is hard work! Kristy and her co-founders, Mary Anne, Claudia, and Stacey, are sure they can handle anything. But only if they stick...

19) Big Shark, Little Shark, and the missing teeth

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Series

Step into reading. Step 1 Ready to read

Description

While Big Shark loses another tooth, Little Shark is dolefully waiting to lose his first.

20) Big Shark, Little Shark, and the spooky cave

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Series

Step Into Reading Level 1 Big Shark Little Shark

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Book, eBook, Kindle

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"Big Shark is scared! The cave looks far too dark and spooky to swim into. But Little Shark isn't scared in the least! Can he coax Big Shark to explore? Some exciting surprises are waiting deep in the spooky cave!"--