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What Makes You Beautiful (Lorimer Real Love)
By Bridget Liang. 2019
DAISY audio (Direct to player), DAISY audio (Zip)
Contemporary romance, General fiction
Human-narrated audio
Logan Osborne knows he likes boys, but has not come out to his family or at school, and no one…
knows that he likes to sometimes wear girls' clothes and makeup. When he starts at a school for the arts he finds a wider range of gender and orientation being accepted. Logan is attracted to Kyle, who has gay dads. But Kyle is straight. Logan finds he doesn't like the way gay boys treat him, and a disturbing hookup with a boy who is fetishistic about Logan's half-Asian background makes Logan even more confused about what he wants and who he is.Encouraged and supported by his friends at school, Logan experiments with nail polish and more feminine clothes in public. Logan begins questioning his gender and decides to use they pronouns while trying to figure things out. Logan meets a classmate's chosen mother, who is a transgender Chinese woman, and begins to come to terms with their gender identity. Realizing they are not a gay boy, but a transgender girl, Logan asks for people to call them Veronica. As a girl, does Veronica stand a chance with Kyle?
Pride: celebrating diversity & community
By Robin Stevenson. 2016
Electronic braille (Uncontracted), DAISY audio (Direct to player), DAISY audio (Zip), Braille (Uncontracted)
Canadian fiction, Canadian authors (Fiction)Social issues
Human-narrated audio, Human-transcribed braille
For lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people around the world, Pride is both protest and celebration. It's about embracing diversity.…
It's about fighting for freedom and equality. It's about history, and it's about the future. It's about all of us. Grades 4-7. 2016.
Girl mans up
By M-E Girard. 2016
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Award winning fiction, Canadian fiction, Canadian authors (Fiction), LGBTQ+ fiction
Human-narrated audio
All Pen Oliveira wants is to be the kind of girl she's always been. So why does everyone have a…
problem with it? They think the way she looks and acts means she's trying to be a boy--that she should quit trying to be something she's not. If she dresses like a girl and does what her folks want, it will show respect. If she takes orders and does what her friend Colby wants, it will show her loyalty. But respect and loyalty, Pen discovers, are empty words. Old-world parents, disintegrating friendships, and strong feelings for other girls drive Pen to see the truth--that in order to be who she truly wants to be, she'll have to man up. For junior and senior high readers. Winner of the 2017 Lambda LGBT Children’s/Young Adult Award. 2016.
A family is a family is a family
By Sara O'Leary. 2016
Electronic braille (Uncontracted), DAISY audio (Direct to player), DAISY audio (Zip), Braille (Uncontracted)
Canadian fiction, Canadian authors (Fiction), Family stories
Human-narrated audio, Human-transcribed braille
When a teacher asks the children in her class to think about what makes their families special, the answers are…
all different in many ways, but the same in the one way that matters most of all. Grades K-3. 2016.