Lists and Suggestions for Kids
List: Pride Books for Tweens (4th-6th grade)
A High Five for Glenn Burke
Bildner, Phil, author.
After researching Glenn Burke, the first major league baseball player to come out as gay, sixth-gra... More
Alan Cole is Not a Coward
Bell, Eric, 1985- author.
Alan Cole can't stand up to his cruel brother, Nathan. He can't escape the wrath of his d... More
Drum Roll, Please
Bigelow, Lisa Jenn, author.
Melissa only joined the school band because her best friend, Olivia, begged her to. But it turns ou... More
Hazels Theory of Evolution
Bigelow, Lisa Jenn, author.
Hazel knows a lot about the world. That's because when she's not hanging with her best fr... More
Ivy Aberdeens Letter to the World
Blake, Ashley Herring, author.
Twelve-year-old Ivy Aberdeen's house is destroyed in a tornado, and in the aftermath of the st... More
The mighty heart of Sunny St. James
Blake, Ashley Herring, author.
Twelve-year-old Sunny St. James must navigate heart surgery, reconnections with a lost mother, the b... More
Zenobia July
Bunker, Lisa, author.
The critically acclaimed author of Felix Yz crafts a bold, heartfelt story about a trans girl solvin... More
Hurricane Child
Callender, Kacen, author.
Born on Water Island in the Virgin Islands during a hurricane, which is considered bad luck, twelve... More
King and the Dragonflies
Callender, Kacen, author.
In a small but turbulent Louisiana town, one boy's grief takes him beyond the bayous of his ba... More
Oddity
Cannon, Sarah, author.
Eleven-year-old Ada and her friends face zombie rabbits, alien mobs, and Puppet Cartels as they exp... More
The Pants Project
Clarke, Cat, author.
Technically, Olivia is not a girl, even though he was born as a girl. He's transgender. Liv kn... More
A Home for Goddesses and Dogs
Connor, Leslie, author.
After the death of her mother, Lydia moves in with her aunts and learns to find a new family of ins... More
Three Pennies
Crowder, Melanie, author.
In San Francisco, eleven-year-old Marin desperately searches for her birthmother knowing time is ru... More
Star-Crossed
Dee, Barbara, author.
When Mattie is cast as Romeo in an eighth-grade play, she is confused to find herself increasingly ... More
The Lotterys Plus One
Donoghue, Emma, 1969- author.
Once upon a time, two couples with Jamaican, Mohawk, Indian, and Scottish ethnic roots won the lott... More
Ashes to Asheville
Dooley, Sarah
Two sisters take off on a wild road trip in this poignant tale for fans of Counting by 7s and Fish i... More
Better Nate Than Ever
Federle, Tim.
An eighth-grader who dreams of performing in a Broadway musical concocts a plan to run away to New ... More
Lily and Dunkin
Gephart, Donna, author.
Lily Jo McGrother, born Timothy McGrother, is a girl. But being a girl is not so easy when you look... More
George
Gino, Alex, author.
When people look at George, they think they see a boy. But she knows she's not a boy. She knows... More
The Other Boy
Hennessey, M. G., author.
Twelve-year-old Shane Woods is just a regular boy. He loves pitching for his baseball team, working ... More
One True Way
Hitchcock, Shannon, author.
From the moment she met Samantha, star of the school basketball team, on her first day at Daniel Bo... More
The Whispers
Howard, Greg (Gregory Steven), author.
Eleven-year-old Riley's mom has disappeared and Riley knows that if he leaves tributes for the... More
When You Trap a Tiger
Keller, Tae, author.
When Lily, her sister Sam, and their mother move in with her sick grandmother, Lily traps a tiger a... More
The Misadventures of the Family Fletcher
Levy, Dana Alison, author.
Relates the adventures of a family with two fathers, four adopted boys, and a variety of pets as th... More
The Stars Beneath our Feet
Moore, David Barclay, author.
Unable to celebrate the holidays in the wake of his older brother's death in a gang-related sh... More
The Best at It
Pancholy, Maulik, 1974- author.
Twelve-year-old Rahul Kapoor, an Indian-American boy growing up in small-town Indiana, struggles to... More
The Best Man
Peck, Richard, 1934-2018, author.
Archer has four important role models in his life--his dad, his grandfather, his uncle Paul, and hi... More
The Hammer of Thor
Riordan, Rick, author.
Thor's hammer is missing again. The thunder god has a disturbing habit of misplacing his weapo... More
To Night Owl from Dogfish
Sloan, Holly Goldberg, 1958- author.
Unhappy about being sent to the same summer camp after their fathers start dating, Bett and Avery, ... More
The List of Things That Will Not Change
Stead, Rebecca, author.
Despite her parents' divorce, her father's coming out as gay, and his plans to marry his ... More
The Breakaways
Johnson, Cathy G., author, artist.
When a popular student encourages her to join the soccer team, Faith signs up even though she has n... More
Princess Princess
ONeill
When the heroic princess Amira rescues the kind-hearted princess Sadie from her tower prison, the t... More
The Witch Boy
Ostertag, Molly, author, illustrator.
In thirteen-year-old Aster's family, all the girls are raised to be witches, while boys grow up... More
The Deep & Dark Blue
Smith, Niki, author, artist.
After a terrible political coup usurps their noble house, Hawke and Grayson flee to stay alive and ... More
Lumberjanes. Volume One, Beware the Kitten Holy
Stevenson, Noelle, author.
Best friends Jo, April, Mal, Molly, and Ripley spend a fun summer at Lumberjane scout camp where th... More
Drama
Telgemeier, Raina.
Callie rides an emotional roller coaster while serving on the stage crew for a middle school produc... More
Intersection Allies : We Make Room for All
Johnson, Chelsea, author.
A handy book about intersectionality that depicts the nuances of identity and embraces difference a... More
Queer Heroes
Sicardi, Arabelle, author.
Profiles notable LGBTQ figures and highlights their contributions to society and their community, i... More
The Stonewall Riots : Coming Out in the Streets
Pitman, Gayle E., author.
This book is about the Stonewall Riots, a series of spontaneous, often violent demonstrations by mem... More
Pride : Celebrating Diversity & Community
Stevenson, Robin, 1968- author.
This work of nonfiction for middle readers examines what -- and why -- gay, lesbian, bisexual and t... More
Stonewall : A Building, An Uprising, A Revolution
Sanders, Rob, 1958- author.
From Rob Sanders, author of the acclaimed Pride- The Story of Harvey Milk and the Rainbow Flag, come... More
¡Mi Familia es de Otro Mundo! : Una Nueva Mirada Sobre los Modeles Familiares
Blanco, Cecilia, author.
A normal family used to be formed by a mother, father and children. However, it's a common situ... More
El Movimiento por los Derechos Humanos de la Comunidad LGBT
Morlock, Theresa, author.
Provides an insight into the injustices faced by LGBTQ individuals, and the activists and groups th... More
Pride : The Story of Harvey Milk and the Rainbow Flag
Sanders, Rob, 1958- author.
Traces the life of the Gay Pride Flag, from its beginnings with social activist Harvey Milk and des... More
Code-Breaker and Mathematician Alan Turing
Schwartz, Heather E., author.
A straightforward biography of famous British mathematician and computer scientist Alan Turing. ... More
The Tea Dragon Society / written & illustrated by Katie O'Neill ; lettered by Saida Temofonte ; designed by Hilary Thompson ; edited by Ari Yarwood.
O'Neill, Katie (Cartoonist), author, illustrator.
After discovering a lost Tea Dragon in the marketplace, apprentice blacksmith Greta learns about th... More