With June finally here that means two things. It’s finally summer! And it’s also Pride month!
Whether it’s resources or a good sappy romance, we’ve got you covered
(and if we don’t have a specific item, don’t forget we can always try and request an item to be
ordered through MelCat)!
Below are some recommendations from our collection and a surprise book specifically from
MelCat:
Just introduced to the world of Pride and LGBTQ+?
Well, A Quick and Easy Guide to Queer Identities might just be the book for you!
Told from the perspective of talking snails, this book can guide you through the sometimes
confusing menagerie of orientations and gender identities.
It may not seem apparent with how and what we’re taught in school, but all kinds of people on
the LGBTQ+ spectrums have existed throughout history! Queer There and Everywhere
goes tells the stories of many historic people we were never told were LGBTQ+
(including the inventor of the high five).
My Rainbow is an adorable picture book about a mother who will do anything to make her
transgender daughter happy, going as far as to make a custom wig so she can happily show off
her rainbow.
Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World and Freeing Finch are two LGBTQ+ books geared towards
students in the middle school ages. The first, is about Ivy, a young girl whose house was just
demolished by a tornado. When her precious drawing journal goes missing, Ivy secretly thinks...
and hopes that her crush was the one that took it, a fellow student, her new friend, a girl.
The latter book is a story about a transgender girl the struggles to find her sense of belonging.
With the help of a dog and her neighbor animal rescuer, Finch discovers that people she can
trust most to bring out the best in her, might be the last people she ever imagined to believe in.
Prefer graphic novels? Perhaps Bloom is right for you! Bloom is about Ari, a boy trying to
escape his father’s struggling bakery. But while interviewing for his replacement, he meets an
easy-going boy that loves baking almost as much as Ari wants to get away from it.
Recently the star of our teen book club over the spring, The Grief Keeper is about an immigrant
girl that gets caught trying to cross the border. In a desperate attempt to stay, she jumps at the
chance to participate in an experimental study with unknown and risky side effects. She just
never imagined that one of the side effects would be falling in love.
Last but not least, it’s the surprise book from MelCat! The Invisible Orientation is an introduction
and thorough guide to everything about asexuality. It provides resources and tips for anyone
that knows an asexual person (or just ace for short) and for people who are ace. Please
remember, this book is not available at our library. If you wish to get this item through us,
it must be requested through MelCat.
Of course, these aren’t all of the LGBTQ+ books we have, but only a sneak peek.
