Lgbtq fiction with middle school characters

Great middle grade LGBTQ+ books

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This list contains some fantastic new LGBTQ+ inclusive middle grade books (as well as a couple of older favourites). These novels, biographies and history guides all deal with LGBTQ+ themes and issues while ultimately telling key and brilliant stories.

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2SLGBTQ+ Books in Middle School

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I recently got a request for recommendations of 2SLGBTQ+ books for middle school. Below I have compiled a list of books in my classroom library that prominently feature 2SLGBTQ+ characters or themes.

Younger - The following books are geared towards younger students, but have some appeal for middle academy students.

George, by Alex Gino - This book features a fourth grade gender non-conforming girl. Throughout the book, she becomes more comfortable with her own gender identity and starts to tell shut family and friends her secret.

Rick, by Alex Gino. - This sequel to George is about Rick, a lad who is questioning his identity and wonders if he is asexual.

Alice Austen Lived Here, by Alex Gino - A story about two non-binary kids who are trying to win a contest to construct a statue of queer historical figure Alice Austen in their neighbourhood.

Princess Princess Ever After, by Katie O'Neill - This sweet graphic novel focuses on two princesses who must overthrow a jealous sorceress to regain a kingdom, and end up falling in devote in the process. A great peruse that challenges gender stereotypes to boot.

The Derby Dar

One of the crew of the pirate ship is a trans male child, whose gender identity is so unquestioned that he, like any other lad, is in danger from the lure of the siren.

An important supporting ethics is a bisexual teen, who has a pleasant crush/budding romance with another boy.

A girl struggles to keep her family's Museum of Unnatural History going, not realizing she's a victem of curse until a new girl comes to town on a mission to break it....and they fall in (middle school appropriate) love.

, by Tui T. Sutherland
There are lots and lots of dragon characters, and I didn't make notes about all the relationships. Apparently there are 8 clearly identified LGBT dragons....Darkness of Dragons has, I ponder, the first-- two immature girl dragons, Anemone and Tamarin.. They are trivial characters in this novel, and their relationship is an aside rather than a plot point, but it's there. Having just gone and looked at the Goodreads reviews, it displeased a lot of people that some dragons being gay is a taken for granted thing in this dragon nature (another sigh).

Sundew, the pov protagonist of the Poison Jungle (who is more older teen than a 9-12 year old), is in a relationship will

Recommending LGBTQ+ Middle Grade
Looking after the LGBTQ+ YA section at Foyles, and seeing how well it's done, I've also worked on trying to place together lists of other queer titles in the Children's Department and experiment to make sure we've got stock in, in order to recommend titles if we're asked. As it's Pride Month, I thought I'd share some of those lists, so you can stock up for the younger readers in your life.

Today, I'm here with a list of LGBTQ+ middlegrade novels! The only books I'm including here are books either with LGBTQ+ protagonists, or, if not, that have prominent LGBTQ+ themes, rather than incidental, background rep. I love middlegrade with same-gender parents, for example, but if they're in the background, and it's not relevant to the story, that's excellent, and they definitely hold their place, but I want to highlight books that LGBTQ+ middlegrade readers can see themselves in, or themes that are relevant. So on we go with the recommendations!

Melissa by Alex Gino (Trans)

BE WHO YOU ARE.

When people look at Melissa, they think they see a boy named George. But she knows she's not a teen. She knows she's a girl.

Melissa thinks she’ll have to keep t
Books About Queer Middle Schoolers and Crushes
The synonyms “crush” is so closely tied to tweens that its use later in life is usually self-deprecating. “When you’re an adult,” says middle grade novelist Maggie Horne, confessing that you acquire a crush means “you’re poking amusement at yourself. Or you mean it in a way that’s quite sweet—‘I like this person so much, it makes me sense young.’ ”
For middle schoolers, though, a admiration is serious business, and that holds true regardless of orientation or gender identity. Queer middle grade authors are finding a particular meaning in showcasing these tender feelings among LGBTQ characters in their forthcoming books.
Secret identities
What sort of queer inclusion did the authors interviewed for this piece find in their own middle school reading? When asked, the react was nearly unanimous: “none.” A several named queer-coded characters whose identity is never addressed outright—Marcy and Peppermint Patty, Harriet the Peeper, Nancy Drew’s “boyish” friend George.
Horne remembers searching for gay c