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Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7 - AR Pts: 15
Lexile measure
970L
Language
English
Description
Le Guin's Hainish series begins with the assumption that centuries ago humanoids from the planet Hain ventured through the solar system establishing colonies on various planets including Earth. For mysterious reasons these colonies lose all contact and knowledge of each other until the 21st century when an attempt is made to establish a galactic league. Individual stories in this loosely organized series explore the inherent communication difficulties...
Author
Language
English
Description
"This is how a family keeps a secret...and how that secret ends up keeping them. This is how a family lives happily ever after...until happily ever after becomes complicated. This is how children change...and then change the world. When Rosie and Penn and their four boys welcome the newest member of their family, no one is surprised it's another baby boy. At least their large, loving, chaotic family knows what to expect. But Claude is not like his...
Author
Publisher
Acre
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
A dreamlike novel set in Pennsylvania in the 1990s, Here Is a Game We Could Play is the story of Claudia, an intelligent eccentric trapped in the rundown industrial town she grew up in--a place plagued with troubling memories and hidden threats. Seeking escape from tedium, loneliness, and her obsessive fear of poisoning, Claudia retreats into books. . . and into a fantasy life with her perfect lover, to whom she addresses letters about her life, all...
6) Tomboy
Publisher
Wolfe Video LLC
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
Français
Description
Laure is 10 years old and a tomboy. On arrival in a new neighborhood, she lets Lisa and her crowd believe that she is a boy. Summer becomes a big playground and Laure pretends to be "Mikael", a boy like the others, different enough to get the attention of Lisa, who falls in love with him. Laure takes advantage of her new identity as if the end of the summer would never reveal her unsettling secret.
7) George
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 4
Lexile measure
790L
Language
English
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Description
Knowing herself to be a girl despite her outwardly male appearance, George is denied a female role in the class play before teaming up with a friend to reveal her true self.
Author
Series
Love hope give volume 1
Publisher
Gates McKibbin
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"Meet Grace and Luke, created in Atlantis when one spirit is split into two using crystal technology and powerful spiritual rituals. Differentiated only by gender, they know everything about each other and nothing at all. After arriving in a culture as dark and corrupt as it is magical and enlightened, they become catalysts for the expansion of divine love throughout humanity and risk their togetherness to expose perverse manipulation of the masses."--Amazon.com...
10) Mask of shadows
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 12
Lexile measure
HL 690L
Language
English
Description
Gender fluid Sallot Lean is a thief who wants nothing more than to escape the drudgery of life as a highway robber and get closer to the upper-class, and the nobles who destroyed their home. Sal auditions to become a member of The Left Hand, the Queen's personal assassins, named after the rings she wears, in order to infiltrate the court and get revenge. But the audition is a fight to the death filled with clever circus acrobats, lethal apothecaries,...
11) It's Pat
Publisher
Touchstone Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
Pat, the sexually ambiguous character from Saturday Night Live, contends with a cast of nutty characters obsessed with discovering Pat's true secret, and finds romance with a person named Chris.
Author
Publisher
Pgw
Pub. Date
2014.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
AD 530L
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Morris faces taunts and criticism when he wears an orange dress to school, but things begin to change for him after he uses his imagination to paint a fantastic picture that he shares with his classmates.
Author
Publisher
Tachyon
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"Despite his ability to control the ambient digital cloud, a foster teen falls for a clever con man. Luring bullies to a quarry, a boy takes revenge through unnatural powers of suggestion. After an alien invasion, a survivor fears that he brought something infectious back from the Arctic. A rebellious group of queer artists create a new identity that transcends even the anonymity of death. In Shirley Jackson and Nebula Award-winning author Sam J....
15) Middlesex
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 31
Lexile measure
830L
Language
English
Description
Spanning eight decades and chronicling the wild ride of a Greek-American family through the vicissitudes of the twentieth century, Jeffrey Eugenides' novel on one level tells a traditional story about three generations of an immigrant family -- blessed and cursed with generous doses of tragedy and high comedy. But there's a provocative twist. Cal, the narrator -- also Callie -- is an hermaphrodite. And the explanation for this takes us spooling back...
17) Every day
Author
Series
Every Day volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 11
Lexile measure
HL 650L
Language
English
Description
Every morning A wakes in a different person's body, in a different person's life, learning over the years to never get too attached, until he wakes up in the body of Justin and falls in love with Justin's girlfriend, Rhiannon.
18) Chef's kiss
Author
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
"A high-strung pastry chef's professional goals are interrupted by an unexpected career transition and the introduction of her wildly attractive nonbinary kitchen manager in this deliciously fresh and witty queer rom-com. Simone Larkspur is a perfectionist pastry expert with a dream job at The Discerning Chef, a venerable cookbook publisher in New York City. All she wants to do is create the perfect loaf of sourdough and develop recipes, but when...
Author
Publisher
Free Spirit Publishing
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
600L
Language
English
Description
Jamie is excited about making friends at a new school, but after playing with dolls and action figures, trying ballet and fixing a toy car, his classmates wonder if Jamie is a girl or a boy. Includes tips for adults.
20) The unbalancing
Author
Series
Publisher
Tachyon
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Beneath the waters by the islands of Gelle-Geu, a star sleeps restlessly. The celebrated new starkeeper Ranra Kekeri, who is preoccupied by the increasing tremors, confronts the problems left behind by her predecessor. Meanwhile, the poet Erdgra Lilun, who merely wants to be left alone, is repeatedly asked by their ancestor Semberi to take over the starkeeping helm. Semberi insists upon telling Lilun mysterious tales of the deliverance of the stars...