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Downers Grove Public Library - 2nd Floor - Teen
TEEN FICTION LEVITHAN, D.
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TEEN FICTION LEVITHAN, D.
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A collection of fiction, nonfiction, and a story in verse celebrating love.
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Downers Grove Public Library - 1st Floor - Kids
J FICTION GEPHART, D.
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J FICTION GEPHART, D.
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Abby Braverman strives to navigate seventh grade without her best friend, keep up her older brother's spirits while he undergoes cancer treatment, and figure out her surprising new feelings for the boy next door. Includes facts about testicular cancer in author's note.--
3) ABC pride
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Downers Grove Public Library - 1st Floor - Kids
JE STOWELL
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JE STOWELL
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ABC Pride introduces little readers to the alphabet through the colorful world of Pride. Children can discover letters and words while also learning more about the LGBTQIA+ community and how to be inclusive.
4) All out
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Downers Grove Public Library - 2nd Floor - Teen
TEEN FICTION SHORT STORIES ALL
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TEEN FICTION SHORT STORIES ALL
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From a retelling of Little Red Riding Hood set in war-torn 1870s Mexico featuring a transgender soldier, to an asexual girl discovering her identity amid the 1970s roller-disco scene, this collection of short stories crosses cultures and time periods to shed light on a world where queer figures live, love and shape the world round them.
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Downers Grove Public Library - 2nd Floor - Teen
TEEN FICTION WILLIAMSON, L.
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TEEN FICTION WILLIAMSON, L.
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"David Piper has always been an outsider. His parents think he's gay. The school bully thinks he's a freak. Only his two best friends know the real truth, David wants to be a girl. On the first day at his new school Leo Denton has one goal, to be invisible. Attracting the attention of the most beautiful girl in Year 11 is definitely not part of that plan. When Leo stands up for David in a fight, an unlikely friendship forms. But things are about to...
6) Ash
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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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"Astrid Jones copes with her small town's gossip and narrow-mindedness by staring at the sky and imagining that she's sending love to the passengers in the airplanes flying high over her backyard. Maybe they'll know what to do with it. Maybe it'll make them happy. Maybe they'll need it. Her mother doesn't want it, her father's always stoned, her perfect sister's too busy trying to fit in, and the people in her small town would never allow her to love...
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Downers Grove Public Library - 1st Floor - Kids
JE MCGINTY
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JE MCGINTY
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Dad has posted a list of chores for the family to do before grandma comes, including bathing the cat; but the cat does not want a bath, so she mixes up the instructions, and soon the family is mowing the floor, vacuuming the lawn, mopping the baby--and the house is in chaos.
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"The dream of a queer separatist town. The life of a gay, Jewish Nazi-fighter. A gender reveal party that tears reality apart. These are just some of the comics you'll find in this massive queer comics anthology from The Nib. [This book] is filled with dozens of comics about LGBTQIA + experiences, ranging from personal stories to queer history to cutting satire about pronoun panic and brands desperate to co-opt pride."--Page 4 of cover.
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Downers Grove Public Library - 1st Floor - Kids
JB JENNINGS
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JB JENNINGS
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Downers Grove Public Library - 2nd Floor - Teen
TEEN 306.768 JEN
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TEEN 306.768 JEN
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Jazz Jennings is one of the youngest and most prominent voices in the national discussion about gender identity. At the age of five, Jazz transitioned to life as a girl, with the support of her parents. A year later, her parents allowed her to share her incredible journey in her first Barbara Walters interview, aired at a time when the public was much less knowledgeable or accepting of the transgender community. This groundbreaking interview was followed...
11) The best man
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Downers Grove Public Library - 1st Floor - Kids
J FICTION PECK, R.
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J FICTION PECK, R.
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"Archer has four important role models in his life--his dad, his grandfather, his uncle Paul, and his favorite teacher, Mr. McLeod. When Uncle Paul and Mr. McLeod get married, Archer's sixth-grade year becomes one he'll never forget"--
Archer Magill has spent a lively, funny five years of elementary school on the lookout for role models. Three of the best are in his own family: his grandpa, the great architect; his dad, the great car remodeler; and...
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Downers Grove Public Library - 2nd Floor - Teen
TEEN 306.768 KUK
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TEEN 306.768 KUK
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Six teens tell what it is like for them to be members of the transgender community"--Dust jacket flap.
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JE PATTERSON
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JE PATTERSON
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Just before his fifth birthday, Penelope lets his mother know he is a boy and, with her support and his ninja powers, faces the rest of his family and his classmates. Drawn from the author's memoir, The bold world.
14) Boy meets boy
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Downers Grove Public Library - 2nd Floor - Teen
TEEN FICTION LEVITHAN, D.
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TEEN FICTION LEVITHAN, D.
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Love is never easy. Especially if you're Paul. He's a sophomore at a high school like no other, and these are his friends: Infinite Darlene, the homecoming queen and star quarterback. Joni, Paul's best friend who may not be his best friend anymore. Tony, his other best friend, who can't leave the house unless his parents think he's going on a date ... with a girl. Kyle, the ex-boyfriend who won't go away. Rip, the school bookie, who sets the odds...
15) Calvin
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Downers Grove Public Library - 1st Floor - Kids
JE FORD
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JE FORD
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"A transgender boy prepares for the first day of school and introduces himself to his family and friends for the first time"--
16) Camp
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Downers Grove Public Library - 2nd Floor - Teen
TEEN FICTION ROSEN, L.A.C.
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TEEN FICTION ROSEN, L.A.C.
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At Camp Outland, a camp for LGBTQIA teens, sixteen-year-old Randall "Del" Kapplehoff's plan to have Hudson Aaronson-Lim fall in love with him succeeds, but both are hiding their true selves.
17) Cemetery boys
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TEEN FICTION THOMAS, A.
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TEEN FICTION THOMAS, A.
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"When his traditional Latinx family has problems accepting his true gender, Yadriel becomes determined to prove himself a real brujo. With the help of his cousin and best friend Maritza, he performs the ritual himself, and then sets out to find the ghost of his murdered cousin and set it free. However, the ghost he summons is actually Julian Diaz, the school's resident bad boy, and Julian is not about to go quietly into death. He's determined to find...
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Every person is unique, so assigning characteristics to everyone in a group, regardless of whether it's by race, religion, gender, or sexual preference, is a fool's errand. This book helps students put aside stereotypes and prejudices so that they can treat everybody as the individual they are.
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TEEN FICTION BAYRON, K.
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TEEN FICTION BAYRON, K.
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"Queer black girls team up to overthrow the patriarchy in the former kingdom of Cinderella"--
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Downers Grove Public Library - 1st Floor - Kids
J FICTION LEALI, M.
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J FICTION LEALI, M.
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"Amos Abernathy lives for history. Literally. He's been a historical reenactor nearly all his life. But when a cute new volunteer arrives at his Living History Park, Amos finds himself wondering if there's something missing from history: someone like the two of them. Amos is sure there must have been LGBTQ+ people in nineteenth-century Illinois. His search turns up Albert D. J. Cashier, a Civil War soldier who might have identified as a trans man...