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Pride Month 2024: Books for Teens

Celebrate LGBTQ+ Pride all year round by exploring these favorite books chosen by CPL's Rainbow Committee.

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  • Marquis Emile runs away from home to escape being married to a woman disguised as a servant, and begins to work for Count Montoni, a frightening man with a mysterious family secret that requires him to be sedated every full moon.
    Book, 2023Salem, MA : Page Street YA, 2023. — FIC FERRARO
  • Ariel struggles with her mental health and her parents’ expectations until new friends from her job at a local carnival helps her discover her true self and understand what it means to have OCD.
    Book, 2024New York : Labyrinth Road, 2024. — FIC COLE
  • Being Ace

    An Anthology of Queer, Trans, Femme, and Disabled Stories of Asexual Love and Connection

    Enjoy stories of love across the asexual spectrum in this collection of short stories that span several genres including sci-fi, fantasy, and contemporary romance.
    Book, 2023Salem, MA. : Page Street Kids Publishing Co., 2023. — FIC BEING AC
  • In this memoir, Walela Nehanda shares their story of being diagnosed with late-stage blood cancer at 23, and how that experience intersects with their identities as disabled, black, fat, queer, and nonbinary.
    Book, 2024New York : Kokila, [2024] — PS3614.E42B54 2024
  • In 1930s Mississippi, magic is only allowed to be used by certain people, but a team of unsanctioned broom racers are trying to follow their dreams and be their true selves.
    Paperback, 2023Montclair : Levine Querido, 2023. — PN6727.W276B76 2023
  • Léon Delafosse is the youngest student ever admitted to the Paris Conservatory for piano, but coming from an impoverished family, he’ll need a patron to help him pay his way through school, which he finds in the eccentric Count Robert de…
    Book, 2023New York, NY : Katherine Tegen Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, 2023. — FIC SCHREFER
  • As the only child in his family Ánte is being raised to work with reindeer, as per Sámi tradition, while he navigates his growing feelings for his best friend Erik.
    Book, 2023Montclair : LQ/Levine Querido, 2023. — FIC ASTOT
  • Gender Rebels

    30 Trans, Nonbinary, and Gender Expansive Heroes Past and Present

    Locke, Katherine,
    Learn the stories of 30 different transgender and gender nonconforming people throughout history from ancient Greece to modern day.
    Book, 2023Philadelphia : Running Press Teens, 2023. — HQ77.7.L63 2023
  • Gem Echolds struggles in the small town of Gracie, but when a new student claims they are both the reincarnations of old gods, their life is sent on an adventure they never expected.
    Book, 2023New York : Wednesday Books, 2023. — FIC EDGMON
  • Benji, a sixteen-year-old transgender boy, is on the run from the cult that raised him and infected him with a bioweapon that’s turning him into a monster.
    Book, 2022Atlanta, Georgia : Peachtree Teen, 2022. — FIC WHITE
  • College freshman and paranormal podcaster Kat Fields receives a strange tip to check out a small Texas town known for its haunting anomalies where she meets Mari Castillo who is in the town to attend her abuela’s funeral.
    Paperback, New York : Clarion Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, |c[2023] — PZ7.7.F7253Hil 2023
  • Aspiring actor Ponjirou is working hard to land his first major role, when a basket of sweets is delivered to him by his first fan ever, a baker named Konnosuke.
    Paperback, 2023[Santa Barbara, California] : Seven Seas Entertainment, [2023] — PZ7.7.N673Im 2023 v. 1
  • It's Totally Normal!

    An LGBTQIA+ Guide to Puberty, Sex, and Gender

    Mehta, Monica Gupta,
    Questions from real teens are answered along the topics of gender, sexuality and much more.
    Paperback, 2023London : Jessica Kingsley Publishers, 2023. — HQ73.2.M44 2023
  • Two nonbinary teens discover a magical world under the lake that starts to bleed into their reality as they struggle to keep their real life above water.
    Book, 2022New York : Feiwel Friends, 2022 — FIC MCLEMORE
  • When Margot Zimmerman realizes she’s gay, she enlists the help of the out-and-proud Abbie to tutor her in ‘Queer 101’.
    Book, 2023Toronto, Ontario : Inkyard Press, [2023] — FIC SHRUM
  • Most Ardently

    a Pride & Prejudice Remix

    Novoa, Gabe Cole,
    This Pride & Prejudice remix follows Oliver Bennet, a transgender man who’s fighting against society’s expectations to present as female and be married off, while he begins forming a connection with Mr. Darcy.
    Book, 2024New York : Feiwel & Friends, 2024. — FIC NOVOA
  • It’s said that no one who falls into the waters of The Narrow survive, except for the fact that Eden saw Delphine White do exactly that, and now she must act as Delphine’s caretaker while she unravels the secrets of what the Narrow did to her.
    Book, 2023New York : Viking, 2023. — FIC MARSHALL
  • This graphic novel explains what asexuality is and isn’t as taught by the two authors who are themselves, asexual.
    Paperback, 2022Portland : Limerence Press, an imprint of Oni-Lion Forge Press Publishing Group, LLC, 2022. — HQ21.M91 2022
  • Three teens’ lives collide in the woods of Saint Juniper, Vermont at an abandoned house that has one of them trapped with a ghost and unable to escape.
    Book, 2023Atlanta, Georgia : Peachtree Teen, an imprint of Peachtree Publishing Company, [2023] — FIC CRESPO
  • Four flesh-eating best friends take a graduation road trip to a festival where someone is trying to frame others like them for murder.
    Paperback, 2023Naperville, Illinois : Sourcebooks Fire, [2023] — TEEN FIC COTTINGH