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1) The 57 bus
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Brooks Memorial Library - Nonfiction - Young Adult
YA 364.15 SLA
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YA 364.15 SLA
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"One teenager in a skirt. One teenager with a lighter. One moment that changes both of their lives forever. If it weren't for the 57 bus, Sasha and Richard never would have met. Both were high school students from Oakland, California, one of the most diverse cities in the country, but they inhabited different worlds. Sasha, a white teen, lived in the middle-class foothills and attended a small private school. Richard, a black teen, lived in the crime-plagued...
2) Afterworlds
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Brooks Memorial Library - Fiction - Young Adult
YA WES
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YA WES
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In alternating chapters, eighteen-year-old Darcy Patel navigates the New York City publishing world and Lizzie, the heroine of Darcy's novel, slips into the "Afterworld" to survive a terrorist attack and becomes a spirit guide, as both face many challenges and both fall in love.
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Brooks Memorial Library - Fiction - Young Adult
YA SHORT STORIES ALL
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YA SHORT STORIES ALL
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A collection of 17 stories from the best young adult authors across the queer spectrum. From a retelling of "Little Red Riding Hood" set in war-torn 1870s Mexico featuring a transgender soldier, to two girls falling in love while mourning the death of Kurt Cobain, forbidden love in a sixteenth-century Spanish convent or an asexual girl discovering her identity in the 1970s roller-disco scene, "All Out" tells a diverse range of stories across cultures,...
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Brooks Memorial Library - Fiction - Young Adult
YA OSH
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YA OSH
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Moss Jeffries is many things: considerate student, devoted son, loyal friend and affectionate boyfriend, enthusiastic nerd. But sometimes Moss still wished he could be someone else, someone without panic attacks, someone whose father were still alive, someone who hadn't become a rallying point for a community because of one horrible night. Moss can't even escape from trouble at school. He and his friends are subject to the lack of funds and crumbling...
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Brooks Memorial Library - Fiction - Young Adult
YA GAR
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YA GAR
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Liza puts aside her feelings for Annie after the disaster at school, but eventually she allows love to triumph over the ignorance of people.
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Aristotle and Dante volume 2
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Brooks Memorial Library - Fiction - Young Adult
YA SAE
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YA SAE
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"Aristotle and Dante continue their journey to manhood in this achingly romantic, tender tale set against the backdrop of the AIDS epidemic in 1980s America. In Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe, two boys fell in love. Now they must learn what it means to stay in love-and to build their relationship in a world that doesn't seem to want them to exist. In their senior year at two different schools, the boys find ways to spend...
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A teen who has always been an outsider forms an unlikely friendship with a new student, who wants only to be invisible, but things get messy for both when word gets out that one is transgender.
8) Ash
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Brooks Memorial Library - Fiction - Young Adult
YA LO
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YA LO
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In this variation on the Cinderella story, Ash grows up believing in the fairy realm that the king and his philosophers have sought to suppress, until one day she must choose between a handsome fairy cursed to love her and the King's Huntress whom she loves.
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When his best friend-turned-boyfriend goes missing and seems to be remembered by nobody else, Ozzie begins to believe that the universe is shrinking and forges ties with a new friend while struggling to figure out what is happening.
10) Beast
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Brooks Memorial Library - Fiction - Young Adult
YA SPA
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YA SPA
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After falling off the roof, fifteen-year-old misfit Dylan must attend a therapy group for self-harmers where he meets Jamie, a beautiful and amazing person he does not know is transgender.
11) Beauty queens
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Brooks Memorial Library - Fiction - Young Adult
YA BRA
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YA BRA
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When a plane crash strands thirteen teen beauty contestants on a mysterious island, they struggle to survive, to get along with one another, to combat the island's other diabolical occupants, and to learn their dance numbers in case they are rescued in time for the competition.
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Brooks Memorial Library - Graphic Novel - Young Adult
YA GRAPHIC LAY
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YA GRAPHIC LAY
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Twelve-year-old goblin and witch-in-training Beetle enlists her former best friend, Kat Hollowbones, to help stop Kat's sorceress aunt from demolishing the mall where Beetle's friend Blob Ghost is trapped.
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Brooks Memorial Library - Biography - Young Adult
YA B JENNINGS JEN
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YA B JENNINGS JEN
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Celebrate Pride every day with the teen advocate, trailblazer, and reality show star Jazz Jennings—one of Time Magazine's "25 Most Influential Teens" of the year. In this groundbreaking memoir, she inspires people to accept the differences in others while they embrace their own truths through sharing her very public transgender journey.
"Jazz is one of the transgender community's most important activists." —Cosmopolitan
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"Jazz is one of the transgender community's most important activists." —Cosmopolitan
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14) Bingo love
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Brooks Memorial Library - Graphic Novel - Young Adult
YA GRAPHIC FRA
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YA GRAPHIC FRA
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"When Hazel Johnson and Mari McCray met at church bingo in 1963, it was love at first sight. Forced apart by their families and society, Hazel and Mari both married young men and had families. Decades later, now in their mid-'60s, Hazel and Mari reunite again at a church bingo hall. Realizing their love for each other is still alive, what these grandmothers do next takes absolute strength and courage."--Amazon.com.
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"Michael is a mixed-race gay teen growing up in London. All his life, he's navigated what it means to be Greek-Cypriot and Jamaican-but never quite feeling Greek or Black enough. As he gets older, Michael's coming out is only the start of learning who he is and where he fits in. When he discovers the Drag Society, he finally finds where he belongs-and the Black Flamingo is born. Told with raw honesty, insight, and lyricism, this debut explores the...
16) The bone spindle
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Bone spindle novels volume 1
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Fi is a bookish treasure hunter with a knack for ruins and riddles, who definitely doesn't believe in true love. Shane is a tough-as-dirt girl warrior from the north who likes cracking skulls, pretty girls, and doing things her own way. Briar Rose is a prince under a sleeping curse, who's been waiting a hundred years for the kiss that will wake him. Cursed princes are nothing but ancient history to Fi--until she pricks her finger on a bone spindle...
17) Both sides now
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Brooks Memorial Library - Fiction - Young Adult
YA THO
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YA THO
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"A transgender teen grapples with his dreams for the future and a crush on his debate partner, all while preparing to to debate trans rights at Nationals"--
Taking home the gold at the National Speech & Debate Tournament would not only be the pinnacle of Finch Kelly's debating career, but the perfect way to launch himself into his next chapter: college in Washington, D.C. and a history-making career as the first trans congressman. What could possibly...
18) Boy meets boy
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Brooks Memorial Library - Fiction - Young Adult
YA LEV
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YA LEV
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When Paul falls hard for Noah, he thinks he has found his one true love, but when Noah walks out of his life, Paul has to find a way to get him back and make everything right once more.
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Brooks Memorial Library - Biography - Young Adult
YA B CHII CHI
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YA B CHII CHI
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20) Bruised
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Brooks Memorial Library - Fiction - Young Adult
YA BOT
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YA BOT
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Daya Wijesinghe sees a bruise as a mixture of comfort and control, but joining a roller derby team push her toward big truths about love, loss, strength, and healing.