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New Books to Celebrate Pride!

Check out these brand new teen novels featuring LGBTQIA+ protagonists and authors! Historical fiction, fantasy, action, romance - we've got you covered! The only struggle will be finding the time to read them all!!

Palo Alto City Library

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  • Suffering from agoraphobia after witnessing a scene of police brutality, Sadie discovers, with the help of family, friends and online activists, that she can build a safe place inside herself.
    Book, 2023New York : Farrar Straus Giroux, 2023. — TEEN FICTION LOCKINGTON
  • Penny and Tate have often clashed, despite their mothers' epic friendship; but now that they are living in the same house, beset by medical crises and Penny's problems dealing with the trauma of her father's death, they have to come to terms with…
    Book, 2023New York : Little, Brown and Company, 2023. — TEEN FICTION SHARPE
  • Nonbinary teen Ander is ready to leave their family's taqueria and focus on their art, but when Santi, an undocumented immigrant from Mexico, begins to work at the restaurant, the two teens spark a romance made complicated by immigration police.
    Book, 2023New York : Wednesday Books, 2023. — TEEN FICTION GARZA VILLA
  • When seventeen-year-old Avery moves to rural Georgia to live with her ailing grandmother, she encounters decade-old family secrets and a mystery surrounding the town's racist past.
    Book, 2022New York : Roaring Brook Press, 2022. — TEEN FICTION HAMMONDS
  • Shireen Malik is still reeling from the breakup with her ex-girlfriend, Chris, when she receives news that she’s been accepted as a contestant on a new televised baking competition show. This is Shireen’s dream come true! Because winning will not…
    Book, 2023New York : Feiwel and Friends, 2023. — TEEN FICTION JAIGIRDAR
  • My Dear Henry

    a Jekyll & Hyde Remix

    Bayron, Kalynn,
    After being expelled from London Medical School along with his best friend Henry Jekyll in 1885 London, 17-year-old Gabriel Utterson is overcome by jealousy when a mysterious and magnetic stranger arrives, capturing all of Henry’s attention and…
    Book, 2023New York : Feiwel and Friends, 2023. — TEEN FICTION BAYRON
  • Seventeen-year-olds Kat Finn and Taylor Sanger, two queer bloodsuckers at an elite vampire-only boarding school, must go up against all of Vampirdom when they uncover a frightening conspiracy on campus.
    Book, 2022New York : Razorbill, [2022] — TEEN FICTION LAURENS
  • Seventeen-year-old Alonda finds friendship, fame, and love on the streets of Coney Island when she befriends a group of teen wrestlers.
    Book, 2023New York : Farrar Straus Giroux, 2023. — TEEN FICTION FEMIA
  • Taylor Parker isn't out yet, but she's keeping an even bigger secret: she entered a sketch contest where the grand prize is an internship at SNL.
    Book, 2022Salem, MA : Page Street Publishing Co., 2022. — TEEN FICTION THOMSON
  • Seventeen-year-old Aaliyah is trying to survive her last years of high school, but things become much more complicated after she is outed by a church elder and Aaliyah must navigate new friends, old flames, and nosy school counselors during her…
    Book, 2023New York : Feiwel and Friends, 2023. — TEEN FICTION TURNER
  • While vying for the title of Musik--one of five musicians in the country licensed to compose and perform original songs--Sofi begins to doubt her family, her music and the girl she thought was her enemy.
    Book, 2022New York : Margaret K. McElderry Books, an imprint of Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing Division, [2022] — TEEN FICTION TOOLEY
  • Grappling with an ever-growing list of fears, nonbinary teen Bianca Torre, an avid birder, finds themselves investigating the murder of her neighbor with the help of their best friend, their crush, and a fellow birding aficionado.
    Book, 2023New York, NY : Clarion Books, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, [2023] — TEEN FICTION WINANS
  • Two teen vigilantes set off on an action-packed investigation to expose corruption and deliver justice in this historical fiction novel inspired by real seventeenth century Latinx teenagers.
    Book, 2022New York : Feiwel and Friends, 2022. — TEEN FICTION GREY
  • Seventeen-year-old queer adoptee Manny, now homeless, sets out to find his sister Elena, who is still enmeshed in Christ's Dominion, the community that abandoned him, but the journey is fraught with danger, as he is forced to confront the religious…
    Book, 2023New York : Tor Publishing Group, 2023. — TEEN FICTION OSHIRO
  • Told in alternating timelines, Jewish seventeen-year-old Natalya spends one summer in New York with her dad, trying to muster the courage to talk to her girl crush, and the other in Los Angeles with her estranged mom, going for a guy she never saw…
    Book, 2023New York : Wednesday Books, 2023. — TEEN FICTION ADLER
  • Arek has managed to fulfill the prophecy and save the Kingdom of Ere from its evil ruler, but the quest is not over because until they free the princess locked in one of the towers he has to asssume the crown himself; only the princess proves to be…
    Book, 2022New York : Margaret K. McElderry Books, [2022] — TEEN FICTION LUKENS
  • Seventeen-year-old neurodivergent and nonbinary Lark pretends that they are the creator of a viral thread that their ex-best friend, Kasim, accidentally posted onto their Twitter account, declaring his unrequited love, but living a lie takes its…
    Book, 2022New York : Amulet Books, 2022 — TEEN FICTION CALLENDER
  • Hiding a magical ability to manipulate fire and ice, transmasculine nonbinary teen pirate Mar teams up with the most unlikely allies to reverse a wicked bargain made by their father and retrieve his soul from el Diablo.
    Book, 2023New York : Random House Children's Books, [2023] — TEEN FICTION NOVOA
  • Margo Zimmerman is gay, but she didn't know until now. An overachiever at heart, Margo is determined to ace her newly discovered gayness. All she needs is the right tutor. Abbie Sokoloff has her own gayness down to a science. But a flunking grade in…
    Book, 2023Toronto, Ontario, Canada : Inkyard Press, [2023] — TEEN FICTION SHRUM
  • In need of a date for her sister's quinceaänera, Maggie Gonzalez confronts new and old feelings for her best friend Amanda, her ex-boyfriend Matthew, and Dani, a new girl with her own romantic baggage.
    Book, 2022New York : Feiwel Friends, 2022 — TEEN FICTION MOSQUEDA