"Sixteen years ago, six girls were born on the same day-and now, on their birthday, one of them is missing. From the author of Starlings comes a story about small-towns, friendships, and the terrifying things your parents don't tell you, perfect for fans of Yellowjackets
For most of her life, Isabeau and her five best friends were inseparable-amazingly enough, the six girls even share a birthday. Then a rift caused their friendships to fracture, and Iz lost everyone except Reuel.
Until now. The morning after their sixteenth birthday, Reuel is missing. She's gone for two days, and when she reappears, there's something wrong with her. She's sick. Really sick. And she doesn't remember anything that happened while she was gone.
Then it happens again. A second girl from their sisterhood disappears and comes back wrong. Now all the girls can feel it. Something's been waiting for them, and it's only a matter of time until they're all taken."
"Alfie Parker has bagged the hottest date to prom … hasn’t he? Bestselling LGBTQ+ writer Simon James Green makes his Barrington Stoke debut with a life-affirming teen romance.
Harvey is popular, cool, plays football and has been in a relationship with his girlfriend Summer for as long as anyone can remember. Alfie is not popular, not cool, has a sick note so he doesn’t have to play any sport, and has been in a relationship with his Xbox since forever.
So when Summer dramatically dumps Harvey just a few days before the school prom, no one is expecting Alfie to ask Harvey to be his date. Least of all Alfie. But sometimes amazing things can happen when you take a chance …
Particularly suitable for readers aged 13+ with a reading age of 8."
"One hot summer afternoon, Rex Ogle’s sexuality is found out and his father gives him an ultimatum: you can be gay, or you can live here, but not both—and you have twenty-four hours to decide. Rex desperately hopes for a reprieve that doesn’t come, and the following day, he leaves. With no place to go, he drives to New Orleans, where he has the phone number of a man he met briefly and kissed once.
This is a story of coming out, a first love that turns to betrayal, assault, and homelessness. Road Home vividly depicts a teenager falling through the net of family and society into a world of hunger, danger, and despair, and reaching a moment of desperate choice on a highway bridge above the Mississippi River. But this is also a story of survival. Intimate, honest, and compelling, it joins Rex Ogle’s award-winning memoirs Free Lunch and Punching Bag in mapping a young adulthood scarred by trauma and illuminated by strength and compassion."
"Sam conoce a su hermana Jessica de toda la vida, pero hoy se encontrarán por primera vez.
Mi hermano se llama Jessica es una conmovedora historia de John Boyne, autor del fenómeno literario El niño con el pijama de rayas, que no puede llegar en un momento más oportuno. Con esta novela intensa, emotiva, escrita con empatía, ligereza e ironía, el escritor retrata el viaje de una familia hacia la aceptación.
Sam Waver es un chico solitario al que le cuesta hacer amigos, y sus padres están tan ajetreados que a veces se siente invisible. Por suerte, cuenta con su hermano mayor, Jason, quien parece tener una vida perfecta: no sólo es encantador y popular, también es la estrella del equipo de fútbol, y todas las chicas están deseando salir con él. Sam lo idolatra.
Sin embargo, un día, Jason reúne a su familia para contarle un secreto que lleva guardando mucho tiempo: en realidad se llama Jessica. Sus padres no dan crédito y Sam descubre que no son las personas abiertas y tolerantes que creía. Las vidas de todos dan un vuelco y parece que las cosas nunca volverán a ser como antes.
La crítica ha dicho:
«Tan divertida como conmovedora... Es de lectura obligada para todas las edades.»
Irish Independent
«Esta historia cautivadora y emotiva no te dejará indiferente.»
Attitude Magazine
«Sobresaliente.»
Irish Examiner
«John Boyne se hizo un nombre con El niño con el pijama de rayas y en Mi hermano se llama Jessica está en plena forma. Un relato oportuno, escrito con delicadeza.»
Daily Express"
"Als Ben De Backer sich gegenüber den Eltern als nicht-binär outet, wird Ben aus dem Haus geworfen und hat keine andere Wahl, als bei der entfremdeten älteren Schwester einzuziehen. Ben kämpft mit einer Angststörung, die durch die Ablehnung der Eltern noch verstärkt wird, und offenbart sich nur einer Handvoll von Menschen.
Aber Bens Versuche, unbemerkt die letzte Hälfte des Abschlussjahres zu überstehen, werden vereitelt, als Nathan Allan, ein lustiger und charismatischer Student, beschließt, Ben unter seine Fittiche zu nehmen. Während die Freundschaft von Ben und Nathan wächst, entwickeln sie Gefühle füreinander, und was als Katastrophe begann, sieht so aus, als könnte es nun eine Chance sein, ein glücklicheres neues Leben zu beginnen.
Ich wünsch' dir nur das Beste ist ein Roman, der abwechselnd herzzerreißend und fröhlich ist. Es ist ein kraftvolles Buch über Freundschaft und Liebe und ein leuchtendes Zeichen der Hoffnung für alle, die manchmal am Leben verzweifeln könnten.
Lukas von Horbatschwesky hat genau das richtige Einfühlungsvermögen, sich in die Rolle Bens zu versetzen. Mit viel Verständnis interpretiert Lukas diese Outing-Geschichte und lässt sie nachempfinden und verstehen."
"Van Heartstopper-auteur Alice Oseman nu nog een herkenbaar coming-of-age verhaal!
Frances heeft haar hele leven gewijd aan school: ze is klassenoudste en haalt uitstekende cijfers. Haar enige hobby die niet aan school gerelateerd is, is fan art tekenen voor haar favoriete podcast. Als ze op een dag door de maker van die podcast wordt benaderd, blijkt ze hem tot haar verrassing te kennen: Aled Last woont tegenover haar. Ze beginnen een hechte vriendschap, waarin Frances begint te twijfelen aan haar keuzes: waarom werkt ze eigenlijk zo hard? En is studeren wel écht wat ze wil?
Radiostilte is een boek voor jongeren vanaf 15 jaar over iemand vinden die naar je wil luisteren, maar ook over hoe het is om eindelijk gehoord te worden. Belangrijk, authentiek en ook nog eens ontzettend grappig, met herkenbare personages die je nog lang zullen bijblijven."
"Ben heeft een plan voor het ultieme kerstcadeau voor Nathan. Het enige wat nodig is, is een grote golden retriever van de ene kant van het land naar de andere zien te krijgen. No pressure…
Maar wanneer een sneeuwstorm de oostkust sneller dan verwacht teistert, komt Ben vast te zitten op het vliegveld en plotseling staan al hun plannen voor een perfecte eerste kerst met Nathan op losse schroeven."
"Alex knows what it's like to be invisible. He has gone through his entire life not being noticed by those around him. Even his own college roommate Xavier treats him like he isn't even there.
That is until Alex creates an alternate persona on social media, Xander. Suddenly his life is full of likes and friend requests, and even Xavier takes notice. Having no idea Alex is behind the Xander account, Xavier develops an intimate and steamy relationship with a person who is only a fiction.
Except Xander starts to feel less like a fiction every day, feeling more real and more full of life than Alex himself. Has he created a persona so strong that it has the power to step out of social media and live the life that Alex has always been too afraid to live?"
"2025 YALSA Best Fiction for Young Adults
2025 ALA Rainbow Book List
This irresistible and hilarious rom-com from acclaimed author Alex Crespo is a whirlwind of telenovela-level drama and hijinks when Joaquin Zoido finds himself fake-dating his childhood crush and newly minted date to his queerceañera.
Joaquin Zoido is out and proud of it. And while he knew his dad and sister, Carmen, would be super supportive, he wasn’t quite ready for them to surprise him with a queerceañera, a coming-out party to celebrate him. Between all the talks of tastings and venues and the chirping of his family’s RSVP texts, the question of who will be his chambelán is on everyone’s minds.
What Joaquin is decidedly trying to not think about is whether his mom is going attend or if she’s finally replaced him with her favorite godson, Felix—the boy who made Joaquin realize he was gay and who was his first kiss. But when an impromptu lie snowballs into a full-fledged family-group-chat rumor, every Zoido from Texas to Mexico starts believing that Felix is not only Joaquin’s chambelán but also his brand-new boyfriend.
To avoid the pity and sympathies of an ill-timed breakup, Joaquin and Felix strike a deal—they’ll stay fake boyfriends until the party. Yet, as the day draws nearer and old feelings spark anew, Joaquin will have to decide whether a picture-perfect queerceañera with a fake boyfriend is worth giving up the chance of something real."
"2020 ALA Alex Award Winner
2020 Stonewall - Israel Fishman Non-fiction Award Honor Book
The ground-breaking, bestselling graphic novel is now available on audio.
In 2014, Maia Kobabe, who uses e/em/eir pronouns, thought that a comic of reading statistics would be the last autobiographical comic e would ever write. At the time, it was the only thing e felt comfortable with strangers knowing about em. Then e created Gender Queer. Maia's intensely cathartic autobiography charts eir journey of self-identity, which includes the mortification and confusion of adolescent crushes, grappling with how to come out to family and society, bonding with friends over erotic gay fanfiction, and facing the trauma and fundamental violation of pap smears.
Started as a way to explain to eir family what it means to be nonbinary and asexual, Gender Queer is more than a personal story: it is a useful and touching guide on gender identity-what it means and how to think about it-for advocates, friends, and humans everywhere.
'It's also a great resource for those who identify as nonbinary or asexual as well as for those who know someone who identifies that way and wish to better understand.' - SLJ (starred review)"
"*Selected for the Whippoorwill All Read List 2025
“Emotional and empowering, The Redemption of Daya Keane is full of the kind of heart and truth that vibrates off the page.” —Amber Smith, New York Times bestselling author of The Way I Used to Be
We Are Okay meets The Lesbiana’s Guide to Catholic School in this heartfelt, queer coming-of-age story set against the backdrop of a small town’s evangelical megachurch culture.
The end of Daya Keane’s junior year in Escondido, Arizona, is anything but expected.
And it starts when her longtime swoon-worthy crush, Beckett Wild, actually talks to her at a party neither of them should’ve been at.
But as Daya’s best friends, Stella and B’Rad, are quick to point out, smart, cute, artistic Beckett is also the poster girl for the wildly popular youth group at Grace Redeemer, the megachurch Daya’s mom prays at and pushes her daughter to attend.
Amid the concert-worthy light shows, high-energy live band, and pastor preaching to love thy neighbor so long as thy neighbor “gets right with God” first, Daya struggles to find her place in a house of worship that doesn’t seem to create space for someone like her. Then again, she never planned to fall this hard for a girl like Beckett Wild.
Now Daya has to decide how far she’s willing to surrender to Beckett’s world of Grace Redeemer, and who she’s willing to become to be with her.
A fearless and profound tale ideal for readers of Jeff Zentner and Jennifer Dugan, The Redemption of Daya Keane gives an intimate and unforgettable look into a world that demands to be seen. "
"They Both Die at the End meets You've Reached Sam, in this "superb…thought-provoking" (Booklist, starred review) speculative young adult novel from New York Times bestselling author Robbie Couch that explores all the different ways love can live on after tragedy.
It's been one year since eighteen-year-old River Lang's best friend died in a car accident. And every day since, he's had to pass by the depressing billboard that appeared as a result: a texting and driving PSA that reduces Dylan to a cautionary tale. Dylan was so much more than a statistic, though, and River hates that everyone in town seems to have forgotten.
When he's caught improving (a.k.a. vandalizing) Dylan's billboard, River is blackmailed into joining the Affinity Trials—a research study that's observing teens who are "struggling socially." As soon as he arrives though, River is thrown together with the last person he wants to spend an entire week with: his ex-best friend and Dylan's former girlfriend, Mavis, who's the only one who knows the truth about the night Dylan died.
During the Trials, River befriends a charming quarterback named Nash, and it doesn't take long for romantic feelings to start bubbling to the surface. But bizarre developments within the Trials make him wonder what the researchers are actually studying as they monitor his every move. And when suspicions lead him to a bombshell discovery, River will have to decide just how far he's willing to go for another chance at first love."
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