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Jones Library - Trans YA Fiction
Shrewsbury - If You Liked Hunger Games (For Teens)
Webster - YA Spooktober
Shrewsbury - If You Liked Hunger Games (For Teens)
Webster - YA Spooktober
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"Sixteen-year-old trans boy Benji is on the run from the cult that raised him--the fundamentalist sect that unleashed Armageddon and decimated the world's population. Desperately, he searches for a place where the cult can't get their hands on him, or more importantly, on the bioweapon they infected him with. But when cornered by monsters born from the destruction, Benji is rescued by a group of teens from the local Acheson LGBTQ+ Center, affectionately...
22) Stage dreams
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In 1861, Grace, a runaway, and Flor, a stagecoach robber, join forces to thwart a plan by the Confederate Army in the New Mexico Territory.
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A personal and culture-driven exploration of the most pressing questions facing the transgender community today, from a leading activist, musician, and academic. In Trans Like Me, CN Lester takes readers on a measured, thoughtful, intelligent yet approachable tour through the most important and high-profile narratives around the trans community, turning them inside out and examining where we really are in terms of progress. From the impact of the...
24) Frankie & Bug
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In the summer of 1987 in Venice, California, ten-year-old Bug and her new friend Frankie learn important lessons about life, family, being your true self, and how to navigate in a world that is not always just or fair.
25) Transmutation
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"Building on the success of All City, here is a wry, and at the same time dark and risk-taking, story collection from author (and baker) Alex DiFrancesco that pushes the boundaries of transgender awareness and filial bonds. Here is the hate between 16-year-old Junie, who is transitioning, and their mom's boyfriend Chad when the family moves into Chad's house on Lake Erie. And here is the love being tested between Sawyer and his dad, who named his...
26) Meet cute diary
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"Noah Ramirez thinks he's an expert on romance. He has to be for his popular blog, the Meet Cute Diary, a collection of trans happily ever afters. There's just one problem; all the stories are fake ... When a troll exposes the blog as fiction, Noah's world unravels. The only way to save the Diary is to convince everyone that the stories are true, but he doesn't have any proof. Then Drew walks into Noah's life, and the pieces fall into place"-- Provided...
28) The sapling cage
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Daughters of the empty throne volume 1
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"In the first novel in the Daughters of the Empty Throne trilogy, Lorel, a young trans girl, disguises herself in order to join a coven of witches and travels the kingdom in search of a solution to the magical blight that plagues it"-- Provided by publisher.
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W. W. Norton & Company
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[2017]
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Fitchburg - Pride Month at FPL
Jones Library - Kids (& Caregiver) Trans Nonfiction
WILBRAHAM Pride Month
Jones Library - Kids (& Caregiver) Trans Nonfiction
WILBRAHAM Pride Month
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The story of Christine Jorgensen, Americas first prominent transsexual, famously narrated trans embodiment in the postwar era. Her celebrity, however, has obscured other mid-century trans narratives-ones lived by African Americans such as Lucy Hicks Anderson and James McHarris. Their erasure from trans history masks the profound ways race has figured prominently in the construction and representation of transgender subjects. C. Riley Snorton identifies...
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"An electrifying and vulnerable memoir that invites readers into an intimate conversation about our digital and physical selves, gender, and belonging. In My Body Is Distant, Paige Maylott writes about her life--both virtual and IRL--as she explores her authentic self and sexuality through dream-like virtual worlds. While Paige dances in online BDSM clubs and hurls spells on virtual battlefields, she is swept into a fairy tale romance that pushes...
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"Hey I'm Jamie, a trans guy from the UK. I've been transitioning since I was 16, after realising I was trans (by accident!) and finally finding the words to express who I was. Since then. I've been on testosterone for more than a decade, had top and bottom surgery, and legally changed my sex, so I know a few things about the transitioning process and being trans! Welcome to The T in LGBT. From realising you're trans and coming out to friends and family,...
33) The Danish girl
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Universal Studios Home Entertainment
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[2016]
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The remarkable love story inspired by the lives of artists Lili Elbe and Gerda Wegener. Lili and Gerda's marriage and work evolve as they navigate Lili's groundbreaking journey as a transgender pioneer.
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Goes beyond transgender to question the need for gender classification. Beyond Trans pushes the conversation on gender identity to its limits: questioning the need for gender categories in the first place. Whether on birth certificates or college admissions applications or on bathroom doors, why do we need to mark people and places with sex categories? Do they serve a real purpose or are these places and forms just mechanisms of exclusion? Heath Fogg...
35) Calvin
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G.P. Putnam's Sons
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[2021]
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"A transgender boy prepares for the first day of school and introduces himself to his family and friends for the first time"-- Provided by publisher.
36) Stay Gold
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Told in two voices, Pony, who is concealing his transgender identity at his new Texas high school, and Georgia, a cisgender cheerleader counting the days until she graduates, develop a complicated relationship.
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Sunbearer duology volume 1
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Clinton Library Pride Month - Teens
Jones Library - Trans YA Fiction
Northampton Summer Reading 2024: Tales of Metamorphosis for Teens
Northampton Teen Book Club Picks
Jones Library - Trans YA Fiction
Northampton Summer Reading 2024: Tales of Metamorphosis for Teens
Northampton Teen Book Club Picks
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Transgender demigod Teo is unexpectedly selected for the Sunbearer Trials, a fierce competition among demigod heroes where the winner sacrifices the loser to Sol, their blood fueling the Sun Stones that protect Reino del Sol.
"Only the most powerful and honorable semidioses get chosen. I'm just a Jade. I'm not a real hero." As each new decade begins, the Sun's power must be replenished so that Sol can keep traveling along the sky and keep the evil...
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"Set in the eighteenth century London underworld, this bawdy, genre-bending novel reimagines the life of thief and jailbreaker Jack Sheppard to tell a profound story about gender, love, and liberation. Recently jilted and increasingly unhinged, Dr. Voth throws himself into his work, obsessively researching the life of Jack Sheppard, a legendary eighteenth century thief. No one knows Jack's true story--his confessions have never been found. That is,...
39) Dreadnought
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Nemesis (April Daniels) volume 1
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Jones Library - Trans YA Fiction
Jones Library Staff YA Picks -- Jenny
Shrewsbury - Grade 11: Exploring Your Dreams
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Jones Library Staff YA Picks -- Jenny
Shrewsbury - Grade 11: Exploring Your Dreams
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"Danny Tozer has a problem: she just inherited the powers of Dreadnought, the world's greatest superhero. Until Dreadnought fell out of the sky and dies right in front of her, Danny was trying to keep people from finding out she's transgender. But before he expired, Dreadnought passed his mantel to her, and those secondhand superpowers transformed Danny's body into what she's always thought it should be. Now there's no hiding that she's a girl. It...
40) Bellies: a novel
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"It begins as your typical boy meets boy. While out with friends at their local university drag night, Tom buys Ming a drink. Confident and witty, a magnetic young playwright, Ming is the perfect antidote to Tom's awkward energy, and their connection is instant. Tom finds himself deeply and desperately drawn into Ming's orbit, and on the cusp of graduation, he's already mapped out their future together. But shortly after they move to London to start...
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