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Romance With Pride

Titles from our Young Adult collection featuring LGBTQIA+ characters and their love lives!

Wood Buffalo Regional Library

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  • Hollis Beckwith isn't trying to get a girl--she's just trying to get by. For a fat, broke girl with anxiety, the start of senior year brings enough to worry about. And besides, she already has a boyfriend: Chris. Their relationship isn't…
    Book, 2024New York : Atheneum, [2024] — YA RANDALL
  • Eric, a lonely nineteen-year-old grappling with the loss of his best friend, retreats into his imagination and finds solace in a memory of a day spent with a boy named Haru, but Eric's imagination and reality blur together when he walks into a…
    Book, 2024New York : Wednesday Books, 2024. — YA THAO
  • In a land where the supernatural is believed to be real, non-believer Ellery and familiar Knox from the Other World form an unexpected alliance to strike a deal that could alter their lives forever.
    Book, 2024New York : Margaret K. McElderry Books, 2024. — YA LUKENS
  • Stonebridge High's resident bad boy, Wesley "Big Mac" Mackenzie, is failing senior year--thanks to his unchecked anger, rowdy friends, and a tendency to ditch his homework for skateboarding and a secret photography obsession. So when his mom drags…
    Book, 2024New York, New York : Soho Teen, [2024] — YA NERADA
  • When disheartened Pittsburgh teen Audrey transports back to 1812 England, she expects to find love as a Regency romance heroine, but surprisingly, sparks fly when she meets Lucy Sinclair.
    Book, 2023New York, New York ; Toronto : Simon and Schuster BFYR, [2023] — YA LIPPINCO
  • Sixteen-year-old queer Indian American, Maya, who falls for her white, wealthy, and complicated female classmate, Juneau, is asked to join a secret society of artists, vandals, and mischief-makers who fight for justice at their school.
    Book, 2023New York : Little, Brown and Company, 2023. — YA KANNAN
  • Anthony "Ant" Stevenson isn't sure when he stopped being a virgin. Or even if he has. The rules aren't always very clear when it comes to boys who like boys. In fact, relationships of all kinds feel complicated, even with Ant's oldest friends.…
    Book, 2023Somerville, Massachuestts : Walker Books, 2023. — YA NESS
  • 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 : Inkyard Press, 2023. — YA SHRUM
  • When fate -- in the form of a party that gets busted -- brings together two very different track-and-field athletes, each trying to figure out what they want out of life, they find a love for which they'd risk everything.
    Book, 2023Toronto, Ontario : Inkyard Press, 2023. — YA ACKER
  • After not being able to have a sweet sixteen party, Mahalia decides to throw a coming out party to celebrate love and herself
    Book, 2023New York : Alfred A. Knopf, [2023] — YA GARRETT
  • Imogen Scott may be hopelessly heterosexual, but shes got the Worlds Greatest Ally title locked down. . . . She even has two queer best friends. There's Gretchen, a fellow high school senior, who helps keep Imogen's biases in check. And then there's…
    Book, 2023New York : Balzer+Bray, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2023] — YA ALBERTAL
  • Alex Blackwood is really good at getting the girl she wants, but coming from a broken home with an alcoholic mother she finds commitment difficult, even when she thinks she is in love; impossibly awkward Molly Parker has a crush on the cool Cora…
    Book, 2022New York : Simon & Schuster BFYR, [2022] — YA LIPPINCO
  • Fifteen-year-old Stevie and Nora's plan to abandon their conservative small town for California so they can be together is shattered when a terrible fall steals every trace of Stevie's relationship with Nora from her memory.
    Book, 2023New York : Simon and Schuster BFYR, [2023] — YA DERRICK
  • Two seventeen-year-old trans boys in Kutztown, Pennsylvania, struggling to understand themselves and their love for each other, are inspired by an online story about trans soldiers who fell in love during the American Revolution.
    Book, 2022New York : Farrar Straus Giroux, 2022. — YA GOW
  • The shadow of Godolia's tyrannical rule is spreading, aided by their giant mechanized weapons known as Windups. War and oppression is an everyday constant for the people of the Badlands.Eris Shindanai is a Gearbreaker, a brash young rebel who…
    Book, 2021New York : Feiwel and Friends, 2021. — MIKUTA
  • Seventeen-year-old Lily Hu can't remember exactly when the question took root, but the answer was in full bloom the moment she and Kathleen Miller walked under the flashing neon sign of a lesbian bar called the Telegraph Club. America in 1954 is not…
    Book, 2021New York : Dutton Books, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC, 2021. — LO
  • Felix Love, a transgender seventeen-year-old, attempts to get revenge by catfishing his anonymous bully, but lands in a quasi-love triangle with his former enemy and his best friend.
    Book, 2020New York : Balzer + Bray, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2020] — CALLENDE
  • After coming out as nonbinary, Ben must leave home and goes to live with a sister and her husband to finish the last year of high school.
    Book, 2019New York : PUSH, 2019. — DEAVER
  • Amber McCloud's dream is to become cheer captain at the end of the year, but after the football team's quarterback dies in an accident and is replaced by a girl, Amber knows she should work against this unliked Jaclyn to keep her cheer status but…
    Book, 2022New York : Wednesday Books, 2022. — YA ADLER
  • After Hana lands the lead role on the K-drama Fated Destiny and moves her family from their Florida hometown to Seoul, she's sure that her dreams have come true. But the show's ratings are lower than anticipated, so the producer decides to drum up…
    Book, 2022New York, NY : Katherine Tegen Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, 2022 — YA LEE