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Those Pink Mountain Nights by Jen Ferguson: Berlin is securing excellent grades and planning her future. Cameron dropped out of high school after his cousin disappeared, just another missing Native girl. Jessie comes from a rich family but she knows she's more than her father's aspirations. All three teens are working at Pink Moutain Pizza when the weekend takes an unexpected turn ... ..... View the full summary and rep info on wordpress!

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News Update May 2025: The online database has been updated on 5/3 with new titles! This month's update focused on adding more Teen and Middle Grade titles to the database. Click to read more about upcoming changes in the works! ..... View the full summary and rep info on wordpress!

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Go Tell It on the Mountain by James Baldwin: In one of the greatest American classics, Baldwin chronicles a fourteen-year-old boy's discovery of the terms of his identity. Baldwin's rendering of his protagonist's spiritual, sexual, and moral struggle of self-invention opened new possibilities in the American language and in the way Americans understand themselves. ..... View the full summary and rep info on wordpress!

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Electric Ice by D. K. McCutchen: Jack, a 200-year-old intersex street kid, knows the world didn’t always look like it does now, with the Great Garbage Ocean spewing plastic and jellyfish along the shores and humanity on the brink of extinction. As he travels through the desert in search of answers, he remembers things from his lives before this one ... ..... View the full summary and rep info on wordpress!

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When Your Child is Gay by Wesley C. Davison; Jonathan L. Dobkes: Coming out can be fraught with difficulty for both parent and child without a road map to navigate this rocky terrain. Emphasizing communication and unconditional love, Davidson and Tobkes help parents untangle their own feelings, overcome barriers to acceptance, encourage strong self-esteem in their child, handle negative reactions to their child’s sexual identity, and more. ..... View the full summary and rep info on wordpress!

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Versus! Gone vs Gone: Small towns, conspiracies, and digging up old family skeletons. Two mysteries: one in Minnesota and one in Wyoming. Two investigators: a gay man and a lesbian woman. But how many secrets? The answers are a long time coming for those that been a long time gone. ..... View the full summary and rep info on wordpress!

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Board to Death by CJ Connor: Ben Rozencrantz is back to running his family's board game shop, now a divorced caregiver looking after his sick father. But when a local game collector offers to sell him a rare edition game of Monopoly for cheap, Ben turns down the suspicious deal. Then Clive turns up dead in the dumpster behind Ben's shop ... ..... View the full summary and rep info on wordpress!

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What the Woods Took by Courtney Gould: When Devin Green is woken in the middle of the night, shoved in a van, and driven deep into the Idaho woods, she isn't murdered but instead dropped off with a cohort of equally confused teens. Two camp counselors inform them that they've all been enrolled in an experimental therapy program. ..... View the full summary and rep info on wordpress!

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When the Stars Alight by Camilla Andrew: Princess Laila Rose is a fallen star in human form. A beloved guardian to humanity. Yet in spite of these fantastical origins, she has never much believed in prophecies. That’s why when a demon of apocalyptic legend is presented to her in a block of ice, she feels fascination rather than fright. ..... View the full summary and rep info on wordpress!

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Cinderella Boy by Kristina Meister: When sixteen-year-old Declan's sister comes home to find him trying on her clothes, he fears her judgment, but she only fears his fashion choices. One quick makeover later, Declan is transformed into their mysterious cousin Layla and dragged to the party of the year, hosted by Carter, the most popular boy in school. ..... View the full summary and rep info on wordpress!

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BenBee and the Teacher Griefer by K. A. Holt: BenBee and the Teacher Griefer stars Ben Bellows—who failed the Language Arts section of the Florida State test—and three classmates who get stuck in a summer school class. But these kids aren't dumb—they're divergent thinkers, as Ms. J tells them: they simply approach things in a different way than traditional school demands. ..... View the full summary and rep info on wordpress!

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Brave Face by Shaun David Hutchinson: Shaun David Hutchinson was nineteen. Confused. Struggling to accept who he was and how he fit into a community in which he couldn’t see himself. Depression told him that he would never be loved or wanted, while powerful and hurtful messages from society told him that being gay meant love and happiness weren’t for him. ..... View the full summary and rep info on wordpress!

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If You Liked ... A High Five for Glenn Burke: Check out these five titles to try next! The vibes are Middle Grade Fiction books with main characters questioning their sexuality, with a little help from adult role models along the way 🔎❓🏳️‍🌈 ..... View the full summary and rep info on wordpress!

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Mazeltov by Eli Zuzousky: In a glorious debut, a boy confronts queer lust, shame, the threat of war, and the plague of family on the day he becomes a man. At once tender and lustful, a work of scathing satire and piercing insight, Mazeltov is a wholly original vision of a young man’s quest to know his own heart. ..... View the full summary and rep info on wordpress!

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Slow Heat by Leta Blake: As a mid-thirties unbonded omega, Professor Vale Aman has given up hope he'll meet a compatible alpha, let alone his destined mate. He's fulfilled by his career, his cat, and his friends. When Jason Sabel, a much younger alpha, imprints on Vale in a shocking and public way, longings are ignited that can't be ignored. ..... View the full summary and rep info on wordpress!

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The Black Coast by Mike Brooks: When the citizens of Black Keep see ships on the horizon, terror takes them; for generations, they've been raided by the clanspeople of Iwernia. The Naridans saddle their war-dragons only to discover that the clanspeople haven't come to pillage at all. They've been driven from their own homeland by the rise of a daemonic despot ... ..... View the full summary and rep info on wordpress!

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Your Shadow Half Remains by Sunny Moraine: One look can kill. Riley has not seen a single human face in longer than she can reckon. No faces, no eyes. Not if you want to survive. But when a new neighbor moves in down the road, Riley’s overwhelming need for human contact makes her throw caution to the wind. ..... View the full summary and rep info on wordpress!