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  • As Nature Made Him: The Boy Who was Raised as a Girl by John Colapinto

    As Nature Made Him: The Boy Who was Raised as a Girl

    John Colapinto

    In 1967, after a baby boy suffered a botched circumcision, his family agreed to a radical treatment. On the advice of a renowned expert in gender identity and sexual reassignment, the boy was surgically altered to live as a girl. This book is the human drama of one man's - and one family's - amazing survival in the face of odds.

  • A Solitary Blue by Cynthia Voigt

    A Solitary Blue

    Cynthia Voigt

    Jeff's mother, who deserted the family years before, reenters his life and widens the gap between Jeff and his father, a gap that only truth, love, and friendship can heal.

  • A Step Toward Falling by Cammie McGovern

    A Step Toward Falling

    Cammie McGovern

    When their inaction during an attack on a disabled girl earns them community service at a center for people with disabilities, Emily and Lucas bond while trying to make up for their mistake, and wonder if they can make it right with the girl who suffered because of them.

  • As the Crow Flies by Melanie Gillman

    As the Crow Flies

    Melanie Gillman

    Charlie Lamonte is thirteen years old, queer, black, and questioning what was once a firm belief in God. So, she's spending a week of her summer vacation at an all-white Christian backpacking camp. And she can't help but poke holes in the pious obliviousness of this storied sanctuary with little regard for people like herself...or her fellow camper, Sydney.

  • A Tale of Two Daddies by Vanita Oelschlager

    A Tale of Two Daddies

    Vanita Oelschlager

    A young girl describes how her two daddies help her through her day, including her poppa cooking eggs and toast, her daddy fixing her knee when she is hurt, and both fathers being there for her when she needs love.

  • A Tale of Two Mommies by Vanita Oelschlager

    A Tale of Two Mommies

    Vanita Oelschlager

    A young boy describes to two other children how his two mommies help him with all his needs.

  • A Taste of Colored Water by Matt Faulkner

    A Taste of Colored Water

    Matt Faulkner

    LuLu and Jelly are very excited to see the "colored" water they heard about in the city's water fountain, but are surprised to learn what "colored" water actually means.

  • A Thirst for Home by Christine Leronimo

    A Thirst for Home

    Christine Leronimo

    Alemitu lives with her mother in a poor village in Ethiopia, where she must walk miles for water and hunger roars in her belly. Even though life is difficult, she dreams of someday knowing more about the world. When her mother has no choice but to leave her at an orphanage to give her a chance at a better life, an American family adopts Alemitu.

  • A Time of Fire by Robert Westall

    A Time of Fire

    Robert Westall

    In England during World War II, with his mother dead from a German bomb and his father off in training and action but keeping him informed by letter, Sonny tries to understand the darkest truths of war and retribution.

  • A Time to Dance by Padma Venkatraman

    A Time to Dance

    Padma Venkatraman

    In India, a girl who excels at Bharatanatyam dance refuses to give up after losing a leg in an accident.

  • At My House What Makes a Family is Love by Dee Dee Walter

    At My House What Makes a Family is Love

    Dee Dee Walter

    What makes a family? A single mom? Two Dads? This book talks about all the different families. Families are ever changing in today's society. This shows that all families should be embraced and celebrated. Families are what makes them and the ultimate connecting factor is love.

  • A Trick of the Light by Lois Metzger

    A Trick of the Light

    Lois Metzger

    Fifteen-year-old Mike desperately attempts to take control as his parents separate and his life falls apart.

  • At the Bottom of the World (Jack and the Geniuses Series #1) by Bill Nye and Gregory Mone

    At the Bottom of the World (Jack and the Geniuses Series #1)

    Bill Nye and Gregory Mone

    Traveling to Antarctica for a prestigious science competition, twelve-year-old Jack and his genius foster siblings, Ava and Matt, become caught up in a mystery involving a missing scientist.

  • Aunt Minnie McGranahan by Mary Skillings Prigger

    Aunt Minnie McGranahan

    Mary Skillings Prigger

    The townspeople in St. Clere, Kansas, are sure it will never work out when the neat and orderly spinster, Minnie McGranahan, takes her nine orphaned nieces and nephews into her home in 1920.

  • Aunt Pearl by Monica Kulling

    Aunt Pearl

    Monica Kulling

    Aunt Pearl arrives one day pushing a shopping cart full of her worldly goods. Her sister Rose has invited her to come live with her family. Six-year-old Marta is happy to meet her aunt, who takes her out to look for treasure on garbage day, and who shows her camp group how to decorate a coffee table with bottle caps. But almost immediately, Pearl and Rose start to clash ― over Pearl’s belongings crammed into the house, and over Rose’s household rules. As the weeks pass, Pearl grows quieter and more withdrawn, until, one morning, she is gone. Acclaimed author Monica Kulling brings sensitivity to this story about homelessness, family and love, beautifully illustrated in Irene Luxbacher’s rich collage style.

  • Autism and Me: Sibling Stories by Ouisie Shapiro

    Autism and Me: Sibling Stories

    Ouisie Shapiro

    In these moving essays, children tell their stories of what it is like to live with a sibling who has autism.

  • Autoboyography by Christina Lauren

    Autoboyography

    Christina Lauren

    High school senior Tanner Scott has hidden his bisexuality since his family moved to Utah, but he falls hard for Sebastian, a Mormon mentoring students in a writing seminar Tanner's best friend convinced him to take.

  • A Very Important Day by Maggie Rugg Herold

    A Very Important Day

    Maggie Rugg Herold

    Two-hundred nineteen people from thirty-two different countries make their way to downtown New York in a snowstorm to be sworn in as citizens of the United States.

  • A Very Special Critter by Gina Mayer and Mercer Mayer

    A Very Special Critter

    Gina Mayer and Mercer Mayer

    In this wise and funny picture-book adventure, a special student joins Little Critter's class at school. The new student uses a wheelchair, and Little Critter is worried. Will his classmate be very different? Will the class know how to act around him? It's an honest, realistic look at ways kids deal successfully with the unknown -- mixed with a big dollop of Mercer Mayer humor for good measure.

  • A Very, Very Bad Thing by Jeffrey Self

    A Very, Very Bad Thing

    Jeffrey Self

    Marley is comfortable with being gay in Winston-Salem, but he never had any real passions until he met Christopher, son of a bigoted television evangelist; the two become an inseparable couple until Christopher's parents send him to a religious program intended to "cure" him of being gay, and outraged Marley tells a very big lie--and then has to deal with the repercussions.

  • A Vigil for Joe Rose: Stories of Being Out in High School by Michael Whatling

    A Vigil for Joe Rose: Stories of Being Out in High School

    Michael Whatling

    A Vigil for Joe Rose is a collection of stories told with empathy and humour about the experience of being out in high school. As a unified collection, these eight short stories and a novella chart the journey of the main characters from first coming out to their growth into confident young gay men, and the challenges, triumphs, and losses along the way.

  • A Visit to the Big House by Oliver Butterworth

    A Visit to the Big House

    Oliver Butterworth

    When Willy, Rose, and their mother go to visit Daddy in prison, they are quite anxious. But once Daddy appears and they can talk and ask questions.

  • Away by Emil Sher

    Away

    Emil Sher

    A gentle tale told entirely through sticky notes between a mother and daughter as the girl's departure for her first summer camp draws near demonstrates how love can be found even in scribbled messages and other unlikely places.

  • Babu's Song by Stephanie Stuve-Bodeen

    Babu's Song

    Stephanie Stuve-Bodeen

    In Tanzania, Bernardi's mute grandfather makes him a wonderful music box and then helps him realize his dream of owning a soccer ball and going to school.

  • Baby's First Words by Stella Blackstone and Sunny Scribens

    Baby's First Words

    Stella Blackstone and Sunny Scribens

    Brief text relates the daily activities of a city baby with two daddies by featuring terms for objects, actions, and sounds. On die-cut board pages with tabs.

 

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