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• Gender Queer

  a Memoir

  Kobabe, Maia,

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  "In 2014, Maia Kobabe, who uses e/em/eir pronouns, thought that a comic of reading statistics would be the last autobiographical comic e would ever write. At the time, it was the only thing e felt comfortable with strangers knowing about em. Now,…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Lawn Boy

  a Novel

  Evison, Jonathan,

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  "Mike Muñoz is a young Mexican American not too many years out of high school--and just fired from his latest gig as a lawn boy on a landscaping crew. Though he tries time and again to get his foot on the first rung of that ladder to success, he…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• All Boys Aren't Blue

  a Memoir-manifesto

  Johnson, George M. (George Matthew), 1985-

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  "In a series of personal essays, prominent journalist and LGBTQIA+ activist George M. Johnson explores his childhood, adolescence, and college years in New Jersey and Virginia. From the memories of getting his teeth kicked out by bullies at age…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Out of Darkness

  Pérez, Ashley Hope,

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  "'This is East Texas, and there's lines. Lines you cross, lines you don't cross. That clear?' New London, Texas. 1937. Naomi Vargas and Wash Fuller know about the lines in East Texas as well as anyone. They know the signs that mark them. They know…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Hate U Give

  Thomas, Angie,

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  "After witnessing her friend's death at the hands of a police officer, Starr Carter's life is complicated when the police and a local drug lord try to intimidate her in an effort to learn what happened the night Kahlil died" --Number #5 on ALA's…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• A Day in the Life of Marlon Bundo

  Bundo, Marlon (Rabbit),

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  "Meet Marlon Bundo, a lonely bunny who lives with his Grampa, Mike Pence - the Vice President of the United States. But on this Very Special Day, Marlon's life is about to change forever... With its message of tolerance and advocacy, this charming…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• I Am Jazz!

  Herthel, Jessica,

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  "Presents the story of a transgender child who traces her early awareness that she is a girl in spite of male anatomy and the acceptance she finds through a wise doctor who explains her natural transgender status" --Challenged for LGBTQ+ content

• The Paper Bag Princess

  Munsch, Robert N., 1945-

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  "A fearsome dragon leaves Elizabeth only a paper bag to clothe herself. But unswayed, she will chase after the dragon and get back what is hers. What about the Prince?" --Banned for being "anti-family" because the princess isn't interested in…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• And Tango Makes Three

  Richardson, Justin, 1963-

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  "At New York City's Central Park Zoo, two male penguins fall in love and start a family by taking turns sitting on an abandoned egg until it hatches" --Challenged for LGBTQ+ content

• Drama

  Telgemeier, Raina,

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  "Callie rides an emotional roller coaster while serving on the stage crew for a middle school production of Moon over Mississippi as various relationships start and end, and others never quite get going" --Challenged for LGBTQ+ content and going…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• New Kid

  Craft, Jerry,

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  "Seventh grader Jordan Banks loves nothing more than drawing cartoons about his life. But instead of sending him to the art school of his dreams, his parents enroll him in a prestigious private school known for its academics, where Jordan is one of…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Front Desk

  Yang, Kelly,

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  "Mia Tang has a lot of secrets. Number 1: She lives in a motel, not a big house. Every day, while her immigrant parents clean the rooms, ten-year-old Mia manages the front desk of the Calivista Motel and tends to its guests. Number 2: Her parents…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret

  Blume, Judy

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  "Faced with the difficulties of growing up and choosing a religion, a twelve-year-old girl talks over her problems with her own private God" --Challenged for being "amoral"

• Ana on the Edge

  Sass, A. J.,

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  "Twelve-year-old figure skater Ana strives to win her competitions while learning about gender identity--Ana's own and that of a new friend--and how to navigate the best path forward" -Challenged for LGBTQ+ content

• The Diary of a Young Girl

  Frank, Anne, 1929-1945

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  "In 1942, with the Nazis occupying Holland, a thirteen-year-old Jewish girl and her family fled their home in Amsterdam and went into hiding. For the next two years, until their whereabouts were betrayed to the Gestapo, the Franks and another family…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Paper Towns

  Green, John, 1977-

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  "One month before graduating from his Central Florida high school, Quentin "Q" Jacobsen basks in the predictable boringness of his life until the beautiful and exciting Margo Roth Spiegelman, Q's neighbor and classmate, takes him on a midnight…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Speak

  Anderson, Laurie Halse,

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  "'Speak up for yourself--we want to know what you have to say.' From the first moment of her freshman year at Merryweather High, Melinda knows this is a big fat lie, part of the nonsense of high school. She is friendless, outcast, because she busted…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Me and Earl and the Dying Girl

  a Novel

  Andrews, Jesse

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  "Seventeen-year-old Greg has managed to become part of every social group at his Pittsburgh high school without having any friends, but his life changes when his mother forces him to befriend Rachel, a girl he once knew in Hebrew school who has…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Maus I

  a Survivor's Tale : My Father Bleeds History

  Spiegelman, Art

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  "The author-illustrator traces his father's imprisonment in a Nazi concentration camp through a series of disarming and unusual cartoons arranged to tell the story as a novel" --Challenged for its explicit depiction of the violence in the…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Maus II

  a Survivor's Tale : and Here My Troubles Began

  Spiegelman, Art,

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