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6th, 7th, and 8th grade can be tough.
Especially with no books to read about anyone else like you. Anyone who thinks they might be Gay. Or Lesbian. Or Bi. Or doesn't really act like a boy "should." Or a girl "should." Or whose parent, or family member, or friend, is GLBTQ.
But wait!
There ARE some books out there... And here's a list to get you started:
Books About & Where the Kid is Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender, Questioning or Gender Non-Conforming:
The Boy In The Dress
Letters In The Attic
My Most Excellent Year: A Novel of Love, Mary Poppins, and Fenway Park
If You Believe In Mermaids... Don't Tell
From Alice To Zen and Everyone In Between
50 Ways of Saying Fabulous
The Boys and The Bees
The Misfits
Totally Joe
Choir Boy
Blue Boy
Wandering Son, book 1
Wandering Son, book 2
Books About & Where someone in the Kid's life is GLBTQ
The Popularity Papers (series)
No Big Deal
Box Girl
The Manny Files
Hit The Road, Manny
Holly's Secret
Luv Ya Bunches *
My Mixed-Up Berry Blue Summer
The Skull Of Truth
Sonny's House Of Spies
Royally Jacked (a.k.a. Royally Crushed)
The Terrible Thing That Happened To Barnaby Brocket
(*5th grade characters, one of whom has Two Moms, so it's elementary school, really. And, controversy aside, it's not really ABOUT the Two Moms.)
Did I miss any YOU know of? Help me make this GLBTQ Middle Grade Bookshelf comprehensive!
And hey, now you have 19 books to check out!
Namaste and Happy Reading,
Lee
**last update: May, 2013**
5 comments:
Thanks for this list, Lee. We can put it to good use!
Slob by Ellen Potter.
The main character's little sister is a member of Girls Who Are Boys (GWAB) They go by boys names, wear boys clothes with short hair and fight gender conformity
How about Waiting for Normal? The main character befriends an older gay couple who run a restaurant near her trailer.
I just blogged about Ignatow's The Popularity Papers (due out in March). Julia's family is made up of two dads. No big deal, just a fact.
Hi, Lee. I see this Middle-grade thread hasn't been updated in a while. Two more recent ones I can think of that include LGBTQ characters in the kids' life are "Waiting for Normal" by Leslie Connor and "The Name of This Book Is Secret" by Pseudonymus Bosch.
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