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  • I am J
    I am J
    by Cris Beam.
    J, who feels like a boy mistakenly born as a girl, runs away from his best friend who has rejected him and the parents he thinks do not understand him when he finally decides that it is time to be who he really is.
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  • Boyfriends with girlfriends
    Boyfriends with girlfriends
    Alex Sanchez.
    When Lance begins to date Sergio, who's bisexual, he's not sure that it'll work out, and when his best friend Allie, who has a boyfriend, meets Sergio's lesbian friend, she has unexpected feelings which she struggles to understand.
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  • Pink
    Pink
    Lili Wilkinson.
    Sixteen-year-old Ava does not know who she is or where she belongs, but when she tries out a new personality--and sexual orientation--at a different school, her edgy girlfriend, potential boyfriend, and others are hurt by her lack of honesty.
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  • Huntress
    Huntress
    Malinda Lo.
    Seventeen-year-olds Kaede and Taisin are called to go on a dangerous and unprecedented journey to Tanlili, the city of the Fairy Queen, in an effort to restore the balance of nature in the human world.
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  • Wildthorn
    Wildthorn
    by Jane Eagland.
    Seventeen-year-old Louisa Cosgrove is locked away in the Wildthorn Hall mental institution, where she is stripped of her identity and left to wonder who has tried to destroy her life.
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  • Will Grayson, Will Grayson
    Will Grayson, Will Grayson
    John Green & David Levithan.
    When two teens, one gay and one straight, meet accidentally and discover that they share the same name, their lives become intertwined as one begins dating the other's best friend, who produces a play revealing his relationship with them both.
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  • The vast fields of ordinary
    The vast fields of ordinary
    Nick Burd.
    The summer after graduating from an Iowa high school, eighteen-year-old Dade Hamilton watches his parents' marriage disintegrate, ends his long-term, secret relationship, comes out of the closet, and savors first love.
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  • Ash
    Ash
    Malinda Lo.
    In this variation on the Cinderella story, Ash grows up believing in the fairy realm that the king and his philosophers have sought to suppress, until one day she must choose between a handsome fairy cursed to love her and the King's Huntress whom she loves.
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  • My most excellent year : a novel of love, Mary Poppins & Fenway Park
    My most excellent year : a novel of love, Mary Poppins & Fenway Park
    by Steve Kluger.
    Three teenagers in Boston narrate their experiences of a year of new friendships, first loves, and coming into their own.
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  • Gravity
    Gravity
    written by Leanne Lieberman.
    Afraid that there is no way to be both gay and Jewish, Ellie Gold, an orthodox Jewish teenager feels forced to either alter her sexuality or leave her Jewish community until her mother and sister offer alternative concepts of God that help Ellie find a place for herself.
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  • Someday this pain will be useful to you
    Someday this pain will be useful to you
    Peter Cameron.
    Eighteen-year-old James living in New York City with his older sister and divorced mother struggles to find a direction for his life.
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  • Love & lies : Marisol's story
    Love & lies : Marisol's story
    Ellen Wittlinger.
    When Marisol, a self-confident eighteen-year-old lesbian, moves to Cambridge, Massachusetts to work and try to write a novel, she falls under the spell of her beautiful but deceitful writing teacher, while also befriending a shy, vulnerable girl from Indiana.
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  • Freak show
    Freak show
    James St. James.
    Having faced teasing that turned into a brutal attack, Christianity expressed as persecution, and the loss of his only real friend when he could no longer keep his crush under wraps, seventeen-year-old Billy Bloom, a drag queen, decides the only way to become fabulous again is to run for Homecoming Queen at his elite, private school near Fort Lauderdale, Florida.
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  • The Bermudez Triangle
    The Bermudez Triangle
    by Maureen Johnson.
    The friendship of three high school girls and their relationships with their friends and families are tested when two of them fall in love with each other.
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  • So hard to say
    So hard to say
    Alex Sanchez.
    Thirteen-year-old Xio, a Mexican American girl, and Frederick, who has just moved to California from Wisconsin, quickly become close friends, but when Xio starts thinking of Frederick as her boyfriend, he must confront his feelings of confusion and face the fear that he might be gay.
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  • Boy meets boy
  • Crush
    Crush
    Carrie Mac.
    Sent to live with her sister in New York while her parents travel for the summer, Hope starts a new friendship with a local girl that turns into something she didn't quite expect, in a tale about love, acceptance, and self-awareness.
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  • Empress of the world
    Empress of the world
    Sara Ryan.
    While attending a summer institute, fifteen-year-old Nic meets another girl named Battle, falls in love with her, and finds the relationship to be difficult and confusing.
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  • Parrotfish
    Parrotfish
    Ellen Wittlinger.
    Grady, a transgendered high school student, yearns for acceptance by his classmates and family as he struggles to adjust to his new identity as a male.
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  • Am I blue? : coming out from the silence
    Am I blue? : coming out from the silence
    edited by Marion Dane Bauer.
    A collection of short stories about homosexuality by such authors as Bruce Coville, M.E. Kerr, William Sleator, and Jane Yolen.
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Websites

The Trevor Project
24/7 crisis and suicide prevention helpline for LGBTQ youth. If you or a friend are feeling lost or alone, call 1-866-488-7386.
Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender Community Center of Greater Cleveland
Support and community right here in Cleveland
It Gets Better
Videos from people who have been there reminding GLBTQ youth that things get easier. Please don't give up.