Showing titles in LGBTQ+

Sixteen-year-old Alonda loves professional wrestling. So when she meets a group of teens with aspirations of wrestling fame in her Coney Island neighborhood, she couldn’t be happier. So as the ragtag team works to put on a show to remember, Alonda leaves behind her old self and becomes Alondra―the Fearless One. But with her conflicting feelings for King, the handsome leader of their group, and Lexi, the girl with the beautiful smile, Alonda has to ask herself: can she be as fearless outside of the ring as she is inside of it?

It's only for a year. That's what sixteen-year-old Zel keeps telling herself after moving to Sydney for her dad's work. She'll just wait it out until she gets back to New York and Prim, her epic crush/best friend, and the unfinished subway project. Even if Prim hasn't spoken to her since that day on Coney Island. But Zel soon finds life in Sydney won't let her hide. There's her art teacher, who keeps forcing her to dig deeper. There's the band of sweet, strange misfits her cousin has forced her to join for a Drama project. And then there's the curiosity that is the always-late Stella.

»Keine Ahnung, du wirkst eher wie so ein... Punto-Typ.« »Ein Punto-Typ?« »Ja, weißt schon. Ein kleines Auto, sieht irgendwie süß aus, mit diesen großen Kulleraugen. Aber eben nichts Aufregendes.« Henning kann es nicht fassen. Er soll die ganzen Sommerferien über in seinem Zimmer hocken und fürs Abi lernen? Nicht mit ihm. In einer kopflosen Aktion trampt er von Berlin bis zur Ostsee. Wenigstens für ein paar Tage will er dem Druck seiner strengen Eltern entgehen, abschalten und alles um sich herum vergessen. John erfüllt sich nach dem bestandenen Abitur einen langgehegten Traum.

Georgia is nog nooit verliefd geweest en ze heeft ook nog nooit iemand gekust – maar als fanfic-geobsedeerde romanticus weet ze zeker dat ze ooit iemand zal vinden. Als ze met haar beste vrienden Pip en Jason naar de universiteit gaat, is Georgia klaar om de liefde te vinden. En met haar extraverte kamergenoot aan haar zijde en een plaats in de Shakespeare Society, lijkt haar tienerdroom steeds dichterbij te komen. Maar door haar romantische plan drijft ze steeds verder van haar vrienden af. Ze vraagt zich af waarom liefde zo gemakkelijk lijkt voor anderen, maar niet voor haar.

16-year-old Raquel lives in a small town in Portugal, the kind of place where everyone knows everyone else’s business. Her parents are divorced and she’s just been suspended for cursing out a school aide asking about her father’s new marriage. She has two best friends, Luísa and Fred, but wants something more. Then, from afar, she sees Pardalita, a senior and a gifted artist who’s moving to Lisbon to study in the fall. The two girls get to know each other while working on a play. And Raquel falls in love.

Felicity Becker loves watching an event come together. There’s something magical about crafting an experience people will remember. So when her mom gets engaged, Felicity sees the wedding as the perfect opportunity to show off her skills. After Felicity’s friend Nancy offers up her family’s apple orchard as a venue, wedding planning gets even better. But the more time Felicity and Nancy spend together dress shopping and hunting for mismatched china, the more it starts to seem like there might be something besides friendship between them.

Mein Name ist Nicolas Schäfer, und ich fresse die Sünden von Verbrechern. Klingt absurd? Du hast ja keine Ahnung, das ist noch gar nichts. Auf der To-Do-List der nächsten zwei Wochen steht: Mächtig düsteren Komplott aufdecken, der Europa zerstören könnte; Bren, den Vater meines Sohns, der mich nach einem One-Night-Stand geghostet hat, nicht umbringen; Falls ich Bren, den Kronprinzen der königlichen Fae, doch töte, dann falsche Pässe besorgen und auswandern. Alaska klingt gut.

"Ich weiß, dass du Angst hast. Aber diese Angst könnte verhindern, dass wir etwas richtig Gutes erleben." Lark Winters größter Traum ist es, Autor*in zu werden. Aber dey erhält eine Agenturabsage nach der anderen. Zu jung, zu queer, zu emotional - niemand will die Relevanz der Geschichte für nichtbinäre Menschen wie Lark erkennen. Doch als plötzlich ein Tweet von Lark über unerwiderte Liebe viral geht, ist deren Traum zum Greifen nah. Endlich bekommt Lark die Aufmerksamkeit, die dey sich die ganze Zeit gewünscht hat. Einziges Problem: Lark hat den Tweet nie geschrieben.

Danielle Silver is a Philadelphia high school senior at the dawn of the ’90s. Ever since her parents split up, she has known her father was gay, but she never expected to be hit with the bombshell that he is HIV positive. As he sickens, and AIDS starts to claim the lives of his friends, Danielle searches for silver linings while trying to balance paralyzing fear, grief, her social life, and schoolwork—capturing all the feelings as adolescence and some hard facts collide.

Fifteen-year-old Kermit Sanders knows grief and its all-encompassing shadows. After losing his beloved older sister in a tragic car accident, nothing quite punctures through the feelings of loss. Everywhere Kermit goes, he is reminded of her. But then Kermit finds a mysterious invitation in his locker, signed anonymously with “-1.” He has no idea what he’s in for, but he shows up to find out. Dubbed the “Minus-One Club,” a group of his school-mates has banded together as a form of moral support. The members have just one thing in common—they have all suffered the tragic loss of a loved one.

Der sechzehnjährige Randy Kapplehoff freut sich schon sehr auf die Sommerferien in Camp Outland, einem Ferienlager für queere Teenager. Dort hat er seine besten Freunde kennengelernt. Dort stand er zum ersten Mal in einem Musical auf der Bühne. Und dort hat er sich in Hudson Aaronson-Lim verliebt. Allerdings steht Hudson nur auf maskuline Macho-Jungs, der sensible, exzentrische Randy ist für ihn so gut wie unsichtbar. Dieses Jahr soll jedoch alles anders werden. Randy hat sich als Del neu erfunden. Del ist muskulös, männlich und Single.

A deeply polarized and ungovernable United States of America has separated into two nations—the God Fearing States (GFS) and the United Progressive Regions (UPR). Judith Braverman, a teenager living in an Orthodox Jewish community in the GFS, is not only a talented artist accomplished in the ancient craft of papercutting, she also has the gift of seeing into peoples' souls—and can tell instantly if someone is good or evil. Jeffrey Schwartz has no love for religion or conformity and yearns to escape to the freedom of the UPR.

From Michael L. Printz Award winner A.S. King and an all-star team of contributors including Anna-Marie McLemore and Jason Reynolds, an anthology of stories about remarkable people and their strange and surprising collections. From David Levithan’s story about a non-binary kid collecting...

For most of her life, Aaliyah's home situation hasn't been great, but she's at least had her childhood best friend and role as a cross-country star to balance it out. But once she got outed by a church elder last spring, everything came undone—including Aaliyah. Now senior year is about to start and she is determined to come back faster and wiser. No more letting other people define her. No more losing herself to their expectations.

Illustros is a cursed realm ruled by the ruthless Gods of Fate, and no one understands the Fates' wrath more than Calliope Rosewood. Blessed with unspeakable powers that terrify even the most dangerous witches and fae, Calla hides her forbidden magic in shame and fear that one wrong touch could send her to her death.

This queer YA psychological thriller from the author of Some Girls Do is now in paperback! “Shocking, captivating, and utterly chilling. A delicious thriller that will have you tearing through pages to get to the end, where you won’t be disappointed.” —Jessica Goodman, bestselling author...

Tutti sanno che "Nick e Charlie" sono la coppia perfetta, semplicemente inseparabili. Ma adesso Nick sta per andare all’università mentre Charlie rimarrà al liceo e tutti si chiedono se continueranno a stare insieme. Che domanda stupida: sono Nick e Charlie, santo cielo! Eppure, mano a mano che il giorno della separazione si avvicina, anche loro iniziano a chiedersi se il loro amore sarà abbastanza forte da sopravvivere. O stanno solo rimandando l’inevitabile? Perché si sa, quasi mai il primo amore dura per sempre…

Shy foster kid Jonas and self-assured vlogger Shani met online, and so far, that's where their relationship has stayed, sharing memes and baring their souls from behind their screens. Shani is eager to finally meet up, but Jonas isn't so sure - he's not confident Shani will like the real him...if he's even sure who that is. Jonas knows he's trapped himself in a lie with Shani - and wants to dig himself out. But Shani, who’s been burned before, may not give him a chance: she talks her best friend Ash into playing spy and finding out the truth.

Setting the stage for her appearance in Life Is Strange: True Colors, this official Steph Gingrich novel sheds light on the Drugstore Makeup years and the story of how Steph crash-landed in Haven Springs, Colorado. Steph Gingrich has finally run out of couches to surf. Now she’s back at her dad’s place in Seattle to figure out what she wants to do with the rest of her life. When running an RPG session for her local gamer café, Steph meets Izzie. Izzie is electric: a punk, a girl who likes girls, and a hella good guitarist.

Desperate to pay for college, Bridger Whitt is willing to overlook the peculiarities of his new job—entering via the roof, the weird stacks of old books and even older scrolls, the seemingly incorporeal voices he hears from time to time—but its pretty hard to ignore being pulled under Lake Michigan by... mermaids? Worse yet, this happens in front of his new crush, Leo, the dreamy football star who just moved to town. Fantastic.