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The Miseducation of Cameron Post
Author: Emily M. Danforth
Description: The Miseducation of Cameron Post is a novel set in the late 1980s and early 1990s about a lesbian teen growing up in a Christian community in rural Montana.
Includes: #lesbian #LGBTQIA #femaleprotagonist #gayconversion #rural
Citation: Danforth, E. M. (2012). The Miseducation of Cameron Post. Blazer + Bray.
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If You Could Be Mine
Author: Sara Farizan
Description: If You Could Be Mine is a novel set in Iran where homosexuality is a sin. It follows a female protagonist who is in love with her female best friend. When her friend’s parents decide to plan an arranged marriage for her friend, she decides she will complete gender reassignment surgery in order to become a man so that she can legally marry her true love.
Includes: #lesbian #nonbinary #LGBTQIA #femaleprotagonist #asianamerican #iranian #contemporary
Citation: Farizan, S. (2013). If You Could Be Mine. Alqonquin Young Readers.
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Tell Me Again How A Crush Should Feel
Author: Sara Farizan
Description: Tell Me Again How A Crush Should Feel is a coming of age story about a young Persian American girl who realizes she is a lesbian.
Includes: #lesbian #LGBTQIA #asianamerican #iranian #interraciallove #femaleprotagonist #contemporary
Citation: Farizan, S. (2014). Tell Me Again How A Crush Should Feel. Algonquin Young Reader.
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Run
Author: Kody Keplinger
Description: Run is a contemporary novel with alternating perspectives between two girls. Both girls have been put into boxes by their peers and everyone thinks they know who these girls truly are: One girl has a reputation for being a wild child and the other is legally blind. This book, by a blind author, follows their adventure of running away from their community together.
Includes: #femaleprotagonist #disability #blind #LGBTQIA #bisexual #contemporary
Citation: Keplinger, K. (2016). Run. Scholastic Press.
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The Love & Lies of Rukhsana Ali
Author: Sabina Khan
Description: The Love & Lies of Rukhsana Ali is a contemporary novel about a lesbian Bengali Muslim teen. When her parents catch her with her girlfriend, her plans to move away for college and become an Engineer all start to fall apart. Sent away to Bangladesh, she realizes that she needs to find the courage to fight for her identity and her love.
Includes: #muslim #asianamerican #bengali #LGBTQIA #lesbian #contemporary #femaleprotagonist
Citation: Khan, S. (2019). The Love & Lies of Rukhsana Ali. Scholastic Press.
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We Are Okay
Author: Nina LaCour
Description: We Are Okay is a story about a white lesbian girl who is simultaneously dealing with the grief of losing both her grandfather who raised her and her first love at the same time.
Includes: #lesbian #LGBTQIA #contemporary #femaleprotagonist #grief #mentalhealth
Citation: LaCour, N. (2017). We Are Okay. Dutton Books for Young Readers.
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A Line In The Dark
Author: Malinda Lo
Description: A Line In The Dark a contemporary young adult novel about a Asian American girl who has unrequited feelings for her female best friend. When her best friends starts to have feelings for another girl from a nearby boarding school, trouble descends and the characters are sent into a thriller mystery.
Includes: #asianamerican #eastasian #LGBTQIA #lesbian #femaleprotagonist #contemporary
Citation: Lo, M. (2017). A Line In The Dark. Dutton Books for Young Readers.
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Huntress
Author: Malinda Lo
Description: Huntress is a fantasy novel about a young Asian lesbian girl who must save her kingdom.
Includes: #lesbian #LGBTQIA #femaleprotagonist #asianamerican #fantasy #magic
Citation: Lo, M. (2011). Huntress. Little, Brown Books for Young Readers.
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Wild Beauty
Author: Anna-Marie McLemore
Description: Wild Beauty is a magical realism novel about a family of Latina sisters that tend to a magical garden and hide a dark secret; whoever they love vanishes. The protagonist must fight to ensure that the girl she loves does not disappear.
Includes: #lesbian #LGBTQIA #femaleprotagonist #latinx #magicalrealism #magic #fantasy
Citation: McLamore, A. (2017). Wild Beauty. Feiwel & Friends.
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Juliet Takes A Breath
Author: Gabby Rivera
Description: Juliet Takes A Breath is about a Latina teen who comes out to her parents and then runs away to the other side of the country to intern for a white feminist writer.
Includes: #lesbian #LGBTQIA #femaleprotagonist #latinx #privilege
Citation: Rivera, G. (2016). Juliet Takes A Breath. Riverdale Avenue Books.
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It’s Not Like It’s A Secret
Author: Misa Sugiura
Description: It’s Not Like It’s A Secret is a contemporary coming of age novel about an Asian American female protagonist who is coming to terms with the fact that she might be a lesbian because she starts to realize that she might have feelings for her Latina friend.
Includes: #lesbian #LGBTQIA #femaleprotagonist #asianamerican #latinx #interraciallove #contemporary
Citation: Sugiura, M. (2017).It’s Not Like It’s A Secret. HarperTeen.
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The House You Pass On The Way
Author: Jacqueline Woodson
Description: The House You Pass On The Way is a coming of age story about a biracial African American lesbian girl in the rural south.
Includes: #lesbian #LGBTQIA #femaleprotagonist #biracial #africanamerican #black #historical #rural
Citation: Woodson, J. (2003). The House You Pass On The Way. Speak.
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