LGBTQ Children's Books (Baby to Middle Grade)

Juvenile / Middle Grade / School Age / Young Reader books featuring lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender or trans, queer, questioning, asexual, nonbinary, genderfluid, genderqueer, pansexual, two spirit, demisexual, or other romantic and sexual orientations and gender identities. Not exhaustive or complete.
 

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1. Alice Austen lived here

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Author:
Gino, Alex
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"Middle school student Sam is comfortable with his nonbinary identity, and his family has accepted it too (as long as he does his homework and chores), so when his history teacher assigns as a project coming up with a proposal for the new statue honoring a historical Staten Islander (there is a contest involved) he and his friend TJ decide to focus on Alice Austen, a lesbian photographer, whose house on Staten Island is a museum--but they have to...

2. Green

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Author:
Gino, Alex
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J GINO
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J GINO
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J GINO
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Green, a non-binary middle-schooler, comes into their own in no small part by fighting for gender-free casting in their school's production of The Wizard of Oz.

3. The Insiders

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Author:
Oshiro, Mark
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4 stars
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Twelve-year-old Héctor Muñoz, fleeing from bullies, discovers a magical closet that not only provides him sanctuary, but also unites him with two other kids facing similar problems at their own schools, helping them find friendship and strength in each other.

4. Jasmine is haunted

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Author:
Oshiro, Mark
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J OSHIRO
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J OSHIRO
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Twelve-year-old Jasmine has been haunted by a ghost ever since her father passed away, and her new supernaturally inclined friends are determined to help her figure out why.

5. Joy, to the world

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Author:
Shappley, Kai
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J SHAPPLEY
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J SHAPPLEY
Description:
Joy, a twelve-year-old transgender girl, fights for her right to cheer in Texas.

6. Martin McLean, middle school queen

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Author:
Zaczek, Alyssa
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J ZACZEK
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Seventh-grader Martin McLean has trouble expressing himself except at Mathletes competitions and, now, as a female impersonator, but his first-ever drag show falls on the same night as an important Mathletes tournament.

7. Nell of Gumbling: my extremely normal fairy-tale life

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Author:
Steinkellner, Emma
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Nell of Gumbling volume 1.
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J NELL
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J NELL
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Seventh-grader Nell lives an ordinary life in the magical town of Gumbling, but yearns to land her dream apprenticeship and become an artist.

8. The pants project

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Author:
Clarke, Cat
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J CLARKE
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Eleven-year-old Liv fights to change the middle school dress code requiring girls to wear a skirt and, along the way, finds the courage to tell his moms he is meant to be a boy.

9. Picture day

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Author:
Sax, Sarah
Series:
Brinkley yearbooks volume 1.
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5 stars
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"Everyone knows the most stressful day of middle school is picture day! And that's exactly where this yearbook-worthy graphic novel series opener begins: with reinventing yourself, drama, popularity, and the friends who see you through."--

10. The Vanquishers

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Author:
Bayron, Kalynn
Series:
Vanquishers volume 1.
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J BAYRON
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J BAYRON
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J BAYRON
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In an alternate San Antonio, there have been no known cases of vampirism since a group of masked vampire hunters called the Vanquishers wiped out the last horde of the undead twenty years ago, but twelve-year-old Malika "Boog" Wilson's parents are not taking any chances, especially when Boog's new classmate Aaron goes missing.

11. Vivian Lantz's second chances

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Author:
Ormsbee, Kathryn
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After trying and failing to break her years-long curse of bad first days of school, eighth grader Vivian Lantz wishes for a do-over--and gets stuck reliving this year's horrible first day over and over again.

12. The year my life went down the toilet

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Arlow, Jake Maia
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Twelve-year-old Al, short for Alison, navigates an overprotective mother, growing apart from her best friend, and her first girl crush, all while her recent Crohn's diagnosis puts a knot in her stomach.

13. You only live once, David Bravo

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Author:
Oshiro, Mark
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J OSHIRO
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J OSHIRO
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"After eleven-year-old David Bravo wishes for a do-over of a disastrous day of middle school, he and a shapeshifting spirit guide try to right a wrong in his past"--