Summer is my favorite time of year. The restaurant patios come back, the lake is slightly less frigid and there's Pride Month, the best of all months! To celebrate, here are some teen books that feature protagonists who identify as LGBTQ.
Malinda Lo's duet Adaptation and Inheritance is pure science fiction with a wonderfully queer twist. Reese and her debate team partner, David, find themselves entangled with a government plot involving UFOs—one of whom happens to be a girl that Reese finds very, very cute.
Adaptation is available in other formats.
In This Song Is (not) for You by Laura Nowlin, Sam and Ramona are stuck in mutual secret love, but then Tom comes along and things get complicated. It's more than just a love triangle, and teens on the ace-spectrum will particularly appreciate hanging out with this trio for a while. Also, the concept of "glitterbombing" makes an appearance, which is my new #lifegoal.
In We Are the Ants by Shaun David Hutchinson, Henry has a choice: to push a button presented to him by a group of aliens and save the world, or to just... not. As he contemplates, the reader is presented with a number of end-of-the-world scenarios that are my favorite part of the book.
We Are the Ants is available in other formats.
Jazz Jennings is one of my top favorite teens on earth. Being a teen girl is hard no matter what, but being a teen trans girl comes with its own unique set of challenges that Jazz shares with us in her new biography, Being Jazz: My Life As A (Transgender) Teen.
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