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.

Showing 81 - 100 of 290  There are a total of 290 valid entries on the list.
Book cover for "Glad, glad Bear!"
Star rating for Glad, glad Bear!
Average Rating:
5 stars
Description:
Bear is very glad about going to ballet class today, gets somewhat anxious before the music starts, then joyously begins to dance.
Book cover for "Grandad's camper"
Star rating for Grandad's camper
Average Rating:
3.5 stars
Description:
A child who enjoys Grandad's stories of his travels and adventures with Gramps persuades him to fix up their old camper and take another trip, in honor of Gramps.
Book cover for "Grandad's pride"
Star rating for Grandad's pride
Average Rating:
3 stars
Description:
"After Milly discovers a pride flag in Grandad's attic, this adorable pair are motivated by the past to start a pride parade in their small town. Activism and celebration go hand in hand as the town gathers to help build a world where everyone is proud to be themselves"--
Book cover for "The great big book of families"
Star rating for The great big book of families

85. Green

Book cover for "Green"
Star rating for Green
Author:
Average Rating:
3.3 stars
Description:
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.
Book cover for "Happy in our skin"
Star rating for Happy in our skin
Average Rating:
3 stars
Description:
Depicts families of different colors and orientations as they play at a park, swim, and celebrate at a block party.
Book cover for "Harriet gets carried away"
Star rating for Harriet gets carried away
Author:
Average Rating:
3.2 stars
Description:
While shopping with her two dads for supplies for her birthday party, Harriet, who is wearing a penguin costume, is carried away by a waddle of penguins and must hatch a plan in order to get herself back to the store in the city.
Book cover for "Hazel Bly and the deep blue sea"
Star rating for Hazel Bly and the deep blue sea
Average Rating:
4 stars
Description:
For two years, twelve-year-old Hazel has coped with her Mum's accidental death by overprotecting her sister and Mama, but when Mama reconnects with her first love, roles begin to shift.
Book cover for "Heather has two mommies"
Star rating for Heather has two mommies
Average Rating:
3 stars
Description:
When Heather goes to playgroup, at first she feels bad because she has two mothers and no father, but then she learns that there are lots of different kinds of families and the most important thing is that all the people love each other.
Book cover for "A high five for Glenn Burke"
Star rating for A high five for Glenn Burke
Average Rating:
5 stars
Description:
After researching Glenn Burke, the first major league baseball player to come out as gay, sixth-grader Silas Wade slowly comes out to his best friend Zoey, then his coach, with unexpected consequences.
Book cover for "Home at last"
Star rating for Home at last
Average Rating:
4 stars
Description:
After Lester is adopted from his foster home by Daddy Albert and Daddy Rich, he can't fall asleep in his new bed. What will it take to make Lester feel home at last?
Book cover for "A home for goddesses and dogs"
Star rating for A home for goddesses and dogs
Average Rating:
5 stars
Description:
After the death of her mother, Lydia moves in with her aunts and learns to find a new family of inspiring women and loving dogs.
Book cover for "Ho'onani"
Star rating for Ho'onani
Average Rating:
5 stars
Description:
An empowering celebration of identity, acceptance and Hawaiian culture based on the true story of a young girl in Hawai'i who dreams of leading the boys-only hula troupe at her school. Ho'onani feels in-between. She doesn't see herself as wahine (girl) OR kane (boy). She's happy to be in the middle. But not everyone sees it that way. When Ho'onani finds out that there will be a school performance of a traditional kane hula chant, she wants to be part...
Book cover for "The house that whispers"
Star rating for The house that whispers
Description:
"Simon, an eleven-year-old coming to terms with his gender identity, is convinced that his grandmother's house is haunted"--
Book cover for "How to become a planet"
Star rating for How to become a planet
Description:
"After an entire summer trying to figure out how to go back to being the person she was before her depression and anxiety diagnosis, twelve-year-old Pluto finds out--with the help of the Hayden Planetarium hotline, a new tutor, and a new friend--that there is no old or new Pluto, there's just Pluto, growing up"--
Book cover for "Hurricane Child"
Star rating for Hurricane Child
Average Rating:
5 stars
Description:
Born on Water Island in the Virgin Islands during a hurricane-- which is considered bad luck--twelve-year-old Caroline falls in love with another girl and together they set out in a hurricane to find Caroline's missing mother.
Book cover for "I am Billie Jean King"
Star rating for I am Billie Jean King
Average Rating:
5 stars
Description:
Billie Jean King is one of the greatest tennis players of all time. Read about this amazing woman athlete in the seventeenth picture book in the New York Times bestselling series of biographies about heroes.
Book cover for "I am Jazz"
Star rating for I am Jazz
Average Rating:
2.5 stars
Description:
From the time she was two years old, Jazz knew that she had a girl's brain in a boy's body. She loved pink and dressing up as a mermaid and didn't feel like herself in boys' clothing. This confused her family, until they took her to a doctor who said that Jazz was transgender and that she was born that way.
Book cover for "I am perfectly designed"
Star rating for I am perfectly designed
Average Rating:
5 stars
Description:
In this empowering ode to modern families, a boy and his father take a joyful walk through the city, discovering all the ways in which they are perfectly designed for each other.
Book cover for "I love you because I love you"
Star rating for I love you because I love you
Author:
Average Rating:
5 stars
Description:
"Author Mượn Thị Văn and Stonewall Book Award-winning artist Jessica Love detail all the big and small reasons why we love the people we do within a call-and-response picture book that features families across the spectrum"--