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An autistic nonbinary eighteen-year-old moves to a new town and school with the support of their loving father and finds friends in an LGBTQ-plus club, but they all must come together to solve the decades-old murder of a teenage boy and confront the demons lurking in Sam's past.

Despite being a huge unathletic nerd, Jonah decides to join the baseball team in ninth grade because it means he'll get to spend more time with his crush, Elliot. Jonah must navigate the highs and lows of high school as he deals with bullies, coming out, schoolwork, friendships, and being honest with who he really is.

James, a senior in high school, channels his energy into aiding a struggling LGBTQ+ youth support group and going to punk shows with his friends, until he falls for Orsino, a telepathic trans boy whose visions of impending doom challenge James's limited perception of what is possible.

Fifteen-year-old Madison has big dreams of becoming a political campaign manager, and she has everything planned out to make it happen. But when her girlfriend dumps her and fires Madison as her campaign manager to become their school's next junior class president, her plans are in jeopardy. Madison becomes her classmate Victoria's campaign manager instead, and as they spend more time together, they also find themselves falling for one another.

With his reputation in tatters after his confrontation with another gay student is posted on social media, openly gay high schooler Peter Thompkins needs something big to fix his image. To prove he's not a self-hating gay, he agrees to help his best friend Alan produce a drag show in their rural hometown. As a result, Peter must find a way to deal with catty drag queens, homophobia, protesters, and a cute boy, and soon he's uncertain if his friendship with Alan will survive until the curtain falls.

When she was in middle school, Charlotte Illes' uncanny detective abilities actually made her a minor celebrity in her town, but that was before she graduated high school and no longer accepted calls on her little blue phone in her garage-office. Now twenty-five, she feels stuck, having no romantic or professional prospects to speak of--and her old blue phone has started ringing again. Solving a case as an adult, though, is far different than her cases as a kid: for one, there were no dead bodies or missing persons back then. Also, the villains now see her as a threat, and could set their sights on her next.

Rhyming text and colorful illustrations present an ABCs book of words and ideas important to the LGBTQ+ movement--from A for Ally to Z for the concept of Zero Tolerance for bigotry and hatred anywhere.

Set against the backdrop of Tehran and Los Angeles, this intergenerational story, examining queer identity at the end of different decades, follows three boys in the same Iranian family as they each gain a new understanding of their history, their culture, and themselves.

"Less than a year away from graduation, seventeen-year-old Joy is too busy overachieving to be worried about relationships. She's determined to be Caldwell Prep's first disabled valedictorian. And she only has one person to beat, her academic rival Nathaniel. But it's senior year and everyone seems to be obsessed with pairing up. One of her best friends may be developing feelings for her and the other uses Caldwell's anonymous love-letter writer to snag the girl of her dreams. Joy starts to wonder if she has missed out on a quintessential high school experience. She is asexual, but that's no reason she can't experience first love, right? She writes to Caldwell Cupid to help her sort out these new feelings and, over time, finds herself falling for the mysterious voice behind the letters. But falling in love might mean risking what she wants most, especially when the letter-writer turns out to be the last person she would ever expect"--Provided by publisher.

Mikira, a seventeen-year-old daughter of a famous horse breeder, takes part in a magical horse race to save her family, and enlists the help of Arielle, a talented, black-market enchanter, and Damien, a young lord involved in a succession battle, who both have their own motives for helping her.