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Electronic braille (Uncontracted), DAISY audio (CD), DAISY audio (Direct to player), DAISY audio (Zip), Braille (Uncontracted)
Canadian fiction, Canadian authors (Fiction), LGBTQ+ fiction
Human-narrated audio, Human-transcribed braille
Chinese immigrant Ray Liu is having a tough time getting grades that please his father, speaking English, and connecting to…
the other Chinese kids at his school who seem to have adjusted more easily. When his father discovers Ray has been cruising gay websites, he’s kicked out and ends up in downtown Toronto, where he gets robbed, beaten up, and seduced. Soon Ray has to decide if, to survive, he could sell himself for sex. If no one gets hurt, why should anyone care? For senior high readers. Some descriptions of sex and violence, strong language. 2011.
Electronic braille (Uncontracted), DAISY audio (CD), DAISY audio (Direct to player), DAISY audio (Zip), Braille (Uncontracted)
Canadian fiction, Canadian authors (Fiction), LGBTQ+ fiction
Human-narrated audio, Human-transcribed braille
Trapped somewhere between growing up and being grown-ups, three twentysomethings hide behind excessive drinking and partying, and use text messages…
to relay their emotions. Meet Billy, a former teen pop starlet who suffers from severe panic attacks; Josh, a paramedic whose ability to patch up injured patients parallels his inability to repair his own emotional damages; and Amy, a rich kid trying to live the Bohemian indie life while dealing with her first broken heart. Strong language and some descriptions of sex. 2009.
Electronic braille (Uncontracted), Braille (Uncontracted)
LGBTQ+ fiction
Human-transcribed braille
As a school assignment, a thirteen-year-old boy writes an alphabiography--life from A to Z--and explores issues of friendship, family, school,…
and the challenges of being a gay teenager. Grades 5-8. 2007, c2005.
Electronic braille (Uncontracted), DAISY audio (CD), DAISY audio (Direct to player), DAISY audio (Zip), Braille (Uncontracted)
Award winning fiction, Canadian fiction, Canadian authors (Fiction), LGBTQ+ fiction
Human-narrated audio, Human-transcribed braille
School is just like a film set: there's The Crew, who make things happen, The Extras who fill the empty…
desks, and The Movie Stars, whom everyone wants tagged in their Facebook photos. But Jude doesn't fit in; he's not part of any of those. As the director calls action, Jude is the flamer that lights the set on fire. Before everything turns to ashes from the resulting inferno, Jude drags his best friend Angela off the casting couch and into enough melodrama to incite the paparazzi, all while trying to fend off the haters and win the heart of his favourite co-star Luke Morris. It's a total train wreck! But train wrecks always make the front page. For junior and senior high readers. 2014 Governor General's Literary Award for children's literature. Canada Reads 2015. 2014.
Electronic braille (Uncontracted), Braille (Uncontracted)
LGBTQ+ fiction
Automated braille
High school sophomore Paul lives in a present-day gaytopia, where boys come out of the closet to become class president,…
and the Gay-Straight Alliance has more members than the football team. When Paul meets artistic Noah in the bookstore, they pass notes rife with meaningful detail; paint in Noah's psychedelic, art-covered room; and fall in sweet, realistic teenage love, unencumbered by gay bashing, sexual-identity crises, and parental rejection. For junior and senior high readers. 2003.
Electronic braille (Uncontracted), DAISY audio (CD), DAISY audio (Direct to player), DAISY audio (Zip), DAISY text (Direct to player), DAISY text (Zip), Word (Zip), ePub (Zip), Braille (Uncontracted)
LGBTQ+ fiction, Friendship stories, Adventure stories
Human-narrated audio, Human-transcribed braille
The literary scavenger hunt of a lifetime, starring an endlessly endearing non-binary tween Zed Watson loves a few things: their…
name (which they chose themself!), their big rambunctious family, and—oh yeah—monsters. When Zed discovered the mystery surrounding an unpublished novel called The Monster’s Castle, they were completely hooked. Now Zed is a member of a small but dedicated legion devoted to finding the long-buried text. When a breakthrough discovery leads Zed to the route that they are sure will take them to the treasure, they know it’s time for a road trip. And with the help of their shy, flora-loving neighbour, Gabe, and his sister, Sam, a geologist who is driving back to college in Arizona, Zed and company are soon off on a wild adventure following cryptic clues. But it’s not all fun and games. Gabe doesn’t like Zed’s snacks, Sam is a bossy driver with total command of the ancient Impreza’s stereo, and Zed is often misgendered. It’s a good thing they also encounter kind strangers, potato-themed dance-offs and lots and lots of ice cream along the way. If Zed and Gabe can combine their strengths, survive Sam’s wrath and best the greedy historian who’s also hot on the book’s trail, they just might find the greatest treasure of all. Co-authored by child-parent duo Basil Sylvester and Kevin Sylvester, this is a vibrant and enormous-hearted story about friendship, identity and belonging. It features illustrations by celebrated author and illustrator Kevin Sylvester, and an Own Voices perspective based on Basil’s experience.
Electronic braille (Uncontracted), DAISY audio (CD), DAISY audio (Direct to player), DAISY audio (Zip), DAISY text (Direct to player), DAISY text (Zip), Word (Zip), ePub (Zip), Braille (Uncontracted)
Family stories, Sports fiction, LGBTQ+ fiction
Human-narrated audio, Human-transcribed braille
In this novel for middle readers, thirteen-year-old basketball star Jordan Ryker learns that his father is gay.
Electronic braille (Uncontracted), DAISY audio (CD), DAISY audio (Direct to player), DAISY audio (Zip), DAISY text (Direct to player), DAISY text (Zip), Word (Zip), ePub (Zip), Braille (Uncontracted)
Serious and literary fiction, LGBTQ+ fiction
Human-narrated audio, Human-transcribed braille
A runaway bestseller in Québec, where it has captured the hearts of readers and pushed trans-identity into the mainstream conversationDandelion…
Daughter is an intimate, courageous portrait of what it's like to grow up having been assigned the wrong sex at birth. Set against the windswept countryside of the remote Charlevoix region some five hours north of Montreal, Gabrielle Boulianne-Tremblay's autobiographical novel immortalizes her early years as an alienated boy trapped in a world of small-town values and her parents' dissolving marriage, through complex adolescent years of self-discovery and first loves, to the harrowing episodes that fuel the growing realization that she must transition and give birth to her new self if she is to continue living at all. One of the first novels of its kind to appear in Québec, this inspiring story has already connected with a wide readership, and has been adopted by many schools to help expand worldviews and curriculums.