Bisexual
Leah On The Offbeat
Author: Becky Albertalli
Description: Leah On The Offbeat is a contemporary novel about a girl who is coming to terms with coming out as bisexual.
Includes: #bisexual #LGBTQIA #interraciallove #contemporary #femaleprotagonist
Citation: Albertalli, B. (2018). Leah On The Offbeat. HarperCollins/ Brazer + Bray.
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Little & Lion
Author: Brandy Colbert
Description: Little & Lion is about a bisexual Jewish Black girl coming to terms with her identity and her white step brother who is dealing with his recently diagnosed bipolar disorder. Both are falling for the same girl. This book also has lesbian characters, a prominent biracial Korean/Black character who wears a hearing aid, interracial relationships, references to abortion, and discussions around what it means to be loyal and what it means to care.
Includes: #bisexual #LGBTQIA #africanamerican #black #femaleprotagonist #contemporary #mentalhealth #bipolar #judaism #youngadultliterature
Citation: Colbert, B. (2017). Little & Lion. Little, Brown.
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Labyrinth Lost
Author: Zoraida Córdova
Description: Labyrinth Lost is a fantasy novel set in contemporary Brooklyn and the fantasy underworld of Los Lagos. The story follows a bisexual Latina girl who is from a family of brujas/witches. She doesn’t want her power and when she tries to banish it, she accidentally sends her family to the underworld and only she can save them.
Includes: #latinx #magic #fantasy #LGBTQIA #bisexual #femaleprotagonist
Citation: Córdova, Z. (2016).Labyrinth Lost. Sourcebooks Fire.
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Let’s Talk About Love
Author: Claire Kann
Description: Let’s Talk About Love is a contemporary love story between an African American bi-romantic asexual girl and a Japanese American boy.
Includes: #bisexual #asexual #biromantic #LGBTQIA #africanamerican #black #asianamerican #japanese #femaleprotagonist #contemporary #interraciallove
Citation: Kann, C. (2018). Let’s Talk About Love. Swoon Reads.
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Not Your Sidekick
Author: C.B. Lee
Description: Not Your Sidekick is a superhero story about a bisexual Asian girl and her internship with a horrible supervillain.
Includes: #bisexual #LGBTQIA #asianamerican #femaleprotagonist #superhero
Citation: Lee, C.B. (2016). Not Your Sidekick. Duet Books.
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The Gentleman’s Guide to Vice and Virtue
Author: Mackenzi Lee
Description: The Gentleman’s Guide to Vice and Virtue is an adventure story set in the 1800s about a bisexual teen, his biracial best friend who has Epilepsy, and his asexual sister.
Includes: #bisexual #LGBTQIA #interraciallove #maleprotagonist #historical #disability #epilepsy #asexual
Citation: Lee, M. (2017). The Gentleman’s Guide to Vice and Virtue. Katherine Tegen Books.
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Home and Away
Author: Candice Montgomery
Description: Home and Away is a contemporary coming of age novel about a Black teen girl from a wealthy family. She goes through a journey of thinking about her identity as Black and what that means to her. She also builds a friendship and relationship with an artsy bisexual boy.
Includes: #black #bisexual #africanamerican #black #asianamerican #contemporary #femaleprotagonist
Citation: Montgomery, C. (2018). Home and away. Page Street Kids.
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Ramona Blue
Author: Julie Murphy
Description: Ramona Blue is a contemporary novel about a girl living in the rural south who thinks she is a lesbian until her childhood friend returns to town and she has to question what her feelings for him might mean about her sexuality.
Includes: #bisexual #LGBTQIA #femaleprotagonist #contemporary
Citation: Murphy, J. (2017). Ramona Blue. Blazer + Bray.
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Radio Silence
Author: Alice Oseman
Description: Radio Silence is the story of a bisexual teen girl in rural England who has spent her whole life working towards getting accepted to her dream university. When she meets the demi-sexual boy who runs her favorite sci-fi audio drama podcast called Radio Silence, the two become fast friends and she begins to question whether or not she should keep pursuing academia or follower her secret dreams of being an artist.
Includes: #LGBTQIA #femaleprotagonist #contemporary #asexual
Citation: Oseman, Alice. (2016). Radio Silence. Harper Collins Children’s Books.
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Like Water
Author: Rebecca Podos
Description: Like Water is a love story about a Latina girl in New Mexico who works as a performing mermaid at a waterpark and deals with the possibility that she may have Huntington's Disease as she starts to date a girl for the first time and realizes she is bisexual.
Includes: #bisexual #LGBTQIA #latinx #interraciallove #disability #huntingtonsdisease #grief #contemporary #femaleprotagonist
Citation: Podos, R. (2017). Like Water. Blazer + Bray.
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They Both Die At The End
Author: Adam Silvera
Description: They Both Die at the End is an adventure story about two strangers who are Cuban, Puerto Rican, bisexual, and gay, and who connect over the fact that they were both told that they will die today.
Includes: #bisexual #gay #LGBTQIA #maleprotagonist #dystopian #latinx
Citation: Silvera, A. (2017). They Both Die at the End. HarperTeen.
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Odd One Out
Author: Nic Stone
Description: Odd One Out is a contemporary novel about three friends and their complicated love triangle. The triangle includes bisexual love interests and three alternating perspectives.
Includes: #bisexual #lovetriangle #interraciallove #africanamerican #black #asianamerican #latinx #contemporary #femaleprotagonist #maleprotagonist
Citation: Stone, N. (2018). Odd One Out. Crown Books for Young Readers.
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The Brightsiders
Author: Jen Wilde
Description: The Brightsiders is a contemporary novel with multiple bisexual characters. It includes more than one bisexual female character, one pansexual female character, and a bisexual male character. The story follows a teen rockstar after a night of partying gone wrong.
Includes: #bisexual #pansexual #LGBTQIA #femaleprotagonist #contemporary
Citation: Wilde, J. (2018). The Brightsiders. Swoon Reads.
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