Books with Trans Teen Characters/Themes

Cheer Up! Love and Pom Poms – a Queer Teen Graphic Novel Lesbian + Trans Girl Romance

Cheer Up! Love and Pom Poms – a Queer Teen Graphic Novel Lesbian + Trans Girl Romance

Cheer Up! Love and Pom Poms by Crystal Frasier, illustrated by Val Wise Annie is a smart, antisocial lesbian starting her senior year of high school who's under pressure to join the cheerleader squad to make friends and round out her college applications. Her former...

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The Passing Playbook – A Trans Teen Gets Benched by a new ‘no trans kids in sports’ Law and has to decide if he’ll come out as Trans and fight to play soccer… or keep passing at his new school.

The Passing Playbook – A Trans Teen Gets Benched by a new ‘no trans kids in sports’ Law and has to decide if he’ll come out as Trans and fight to play soccer… or keep passing at his new school.

The Passing Playbook by Isaac Fitzsimons Fifteen-year-old Spencer Harris is a proud nerd, an awesome big brother, and a David Beckham in training. He's also transgender. After transitioning at his old school leads to a year of isolation and bullying, Spencer gets a...

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It Feels Good To Be Yourself: A Book About Gender Identity – A Picture Book I Wish Had Been Read To Me When I Was a Little Kid

It Feels Good To Be Yourself: A Book About Gender Identity – A Picture Book I Wish Had Been Read To Me When I Was a Little Kid

The cover of "It Feels Good to Be Yourself: A Book About Gender Identity" It Feels Good to Be Yourself: A Book About Gender Identity by Theresa Thorn, Illustrated by Noah Grigni Some people are boys. Some people are girls. Some people are both, neither, or somewhere...

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Publishing Can – And IS – Doing Better: Alex Gino’s Groundbreaking Book About a Trans 5th Grader Is Now Going to Be Titled “Melissa”

Publishing Can – And IS – Doing Better: Alex Gino’s Groundbreaking Book About a Trans 5th Grader Is Now Going to Be Titled “Melissa”

screen shot from the Publishers Weekly article "Alex Gino Debuts New Title and Cover for Groundbreaking Trans Novel" alongside the new cover, "Melissa" with the words "Previously Published as "George" above Alex Gino's name. This news made me feel both happy and...

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Sylvia and Marsha Start a Revolution – a Picture Book I wish Had Been Read to Me When I Was a Little Kid

Sylvia and Marsha Start a Revolution – a Picture Book I wish Had Been Read to Me When I Was a Little Kid

Sylvia and Marsha Start a Revolution: The Story of the Trans Women of Color Who Made LGBTQ+ History by Joy Michael Ellison, Illustrated by Teshika Silver Someday girls like us will be able to wear whatever we want. People will call us by the names we choose. They'll...

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Cover of Lee Wind's "No Way, They Were Gay?" featuring Mahatma Gandhi, We Wha, Eleanor Roosevelt, and Abraham Lincoln with a swirling diversity pride rainbow

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