Finding LGBTQIA+ Books for Children and Young Adults
You can search for LGBTQIA+ Children's and young adult books using various different tools. Some of these include:
- LGBTQIA+ TeachingBooks CollectionBrowse LGBTQIA+ books identified by TeachingBooks. Use filters such as grade level, cultural experience, and curricular area to narrow results.
- CCBC Diversity Statistics Book SearchBrowse books published since 2018 using their advanced search to identify relevant LGBTQIA+ titles.
- NoveList PlusFull text book reviews for children's and young adult literature (fiction and non-fiction). Also includes reading level indicators (Lexiles) for readability.
Examples of LGBTQIA+ EASY Books
My Moms Love Me
TMC Easy MEM
Grandad's Pride
TMC Easy WOO
The Wishing Flower
TMC Easy IRV
Dad and Daddy's Big Big Family
TMC Easy KIR
Good Hair Day
TMC Easy TRI
Out of the Blue
TMC Easy TRE
Love, Violet
TMC Easy WIL
Mama and Mommy and Me in the Middle
TMC Easy LAC
Auntie Uncle : drag queen hero
TMC Easy ROY
Not He or She, I'm Me
TMC Easy WIL
Big Wig
TMC Easy HIL
Jacob's School Play : starring he, she, and they
TMC Easy HOF
From Archie to Zack
TMC Easy KIR
Calvin
TMC Easy FOR
A Church for All
TMC Easy PIT
My Parents Won't Stop Talking!
TMC Easy HUN
Phoenix Goes to School
TMC Easy FIN
Old MacDonald Had a Baby
TMC Easy SNA
Julian at the Wedding
TMC Easy LOV
costume for charly
TMC Easy MAL
Aaron Slater, Illustrator
TMC Easy BEA
When Aidan Became a Brother
TMC Easy LUK
I Love You Because I Love You
TMC Easy VAN
My Rainbow
TMC Easy NEA
The Best Bed for Me
TMC Easy COR
Who's Your Real Mom?
TMC Easy GRE
Plenty of Hugs
TMC Easy MAN
Rainbow Hands
TMC Easy NAI
Ritu Weds Chandni
TMC Easy NAR
Phoenix Gets Greater
TMC Easy WIL
My Mommies Built a Treehouse
TMC Easy PET
Sam is my Sister
TMC Easy RHO
Grandad's Camper
TMC Easy WOO
This Day in June
TMC Easy PIT
Julián Is a Mermaid
TMC Easy LOV
Bathe the Cat
TMC MCG
Ho'onani : hula warrior Gale
TMC Easy GAL
Strong
TMC Easy KEA
Jack (Not Jackie)
TMC Easy SIL
Payden's Pronoun Party
TMC Easy JAR
My Sister Daisy
TMC Easy KAR
Adventures with My Daddies
TMC Easy PET
What are Your Words?
TMC Easy LOC
My Footprints
TMC Easy PHI
The Rainbow Parade
TMC Easy NEI
Mr. Watson's Chickens
TMC Easy DAP
Jacob's New Dress
TMC Easy HOF
Carlos the Fairy Boy
TMC Easy RIO
Zak's Safari
TMC Easy TYN
And Tango Makes Three
TMC Easy RIC
Jerome By Heart
TMC Easy SCO
Introducing Teddy
TMC Easy WAL
Mom and Mum Are Getting Married!
TMC Easy SET
Mommy, Mama, and Me
TMC Easy NEW
Our Subway Baby
TMC Easy MER
A Tale of Two Daddies
TMC Easy OEL
Pink Is for Boys
TMC Easy PEA
Morris Micklewhite and the Tangerine Dress
TMC Easy BAL
The Gripper Slipper
TMC Easy ALE
The Little Library
TMC Easy MCN
Daddy, Papa, and Me
The story of a toddler's daily activities with two loving fathers.
Rainbow
TMC Easy GEN
Aalfred and Aalbert
TMC Easy HOO
Stella Brings the Family
TMC Easy SCH
Ogilvy
TMC Easy UND
Made by Raffi
TMC Easy POM
Examples of LGBTQIA+ Fiction Books
She Is A Haunting
TMC Fiction TRA
The Queer Girl is Going to Be Okay
TMC Fiction WAL
Only This Beautiful Moment
TMC Fiction NAZ
Welcome to St. Hell : my trans teen misadventure
TMC 741.5 HAN
Home Field Advantage
TMC Fiction ADL
Heartstopper
TMC Fiction OSE
Gay Club!
TMC Fiction GRE
Loveless
TMC Fiction OSE
Blackwater
TMC 741.5 ARR
You Only Live Once, David Bravo
TMC Fiction OSH
We Deserve Monuments
TMC Fiction HAM
The Lesbiana's Guide to Catholic School
TMC Fiction REY
Nikhil Out Loud
TMC Fiction PAN
Messy Roots : a graphic memoir of a Wuhanese American
TMC 741.5 GAO
As You Walk on By
TMC Fiction WIN
The Civil War of Amos Abernathy
TMC Fiction LEA
Camp Quiltbag
TMC Fiction MEL
In the Key of Us
Fiction LOC
Obie is Man Enough
TMC Fiction BAI
All That's Left in the World
TMC Fiction BRO
Man o'War
TMC Fiction MCC
How to Succeed in Witchcraft
TMC Fiction BRO
The One True Me and You
TMC Fiction ENG
Icebreaker
TMC Fiction GRA
Kings of B'more
TMC Fiction THO
The Honeys
TMC Fiction LAS
Across a Field of Starlight
TMC 741.5 DEL
Almost Flying
TMC Fiction ARL
Lakelore
TMC Fiction MCL
Juliet Takes a Breath
TMC Fiction RIV
Pumpkin
TMC Fiction MUR
I kissed Shara Wheeler
TMC Fiction MCQ
Love & Other Natural Disasters
TMC Fiction SUG
Felix Ever After
TMC Fiction CAL
Before We Disappear
TMC Fiction HUT
Different Kinds of Fruit
TMC Fiction LUK
Self-Made Boys
TMC Fiction MCL
Flamer
TMC 741.5 CUR
Pet
TMC Fiction EME
Fifteen Hundred Miles from the Sun
TMC Fiction GAR
The Magic Fish
TMC 741.5 TRU
Sasha Masha
TMC Fiction BOR
You Should See Me In a Crown
TMC Fiction JOH
Frankie & Bug
TMC Fiction FOR
The Black Flamingo
TMC Fiction ATT
Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe
TMC Fiction SAE
I'll Give You the Sun
TMC Fiction NEL
Too Bright To See
TMC Fiction LUK
The Darkness Outside Us
TMC Fiction SCH
If I Was Your Girl
TMC Fiction RUS
Spin Me Right Round
TMC Fiction VAL
The Stars and the Blackness Between Them
TMC Fiction PET
Cinderella is Dead
TMC Fiction BAY
Fascinators
TMC Fiction ELI
Some Girls Bind
TMC Fiction JAM
As the Crow Flies
TMC 741.5 GIL
I Wish You All the Best
TMC Fiction DEA
Tell Me How You Really Feel
TMC Fiction SAF
Girl Mans Up
TMC Fiction GIR
Like Other Girls
TMC Fiction LUN
The Love & Lies of Rukhsana Ali
TMC Fiction KHA
We Are Okay
TMC Fiction LAC
The Miseducation of Cameron Post
TMC Fiction DAN
Examples of LGBTQIA+ Dewey Books
Gender swapped fairy tales
TMC 398.2 FRA
Being You
TMC 305.3 MAD
Two Grooms On a Cake
TMC 306.76 SAN
Born Ready: the true story of a boy named Penelope
TMC 306.76 PAT
Be Amazing: a history of Pride
TMC 306.76 DUN
Gender Queer: A Memoir
TMC 741.5 KOB
Sewing the Rainbow: A Story About Gilbert Baker
TMC 306.76 PIT
Queer, There, and Everywhere
TMC 920 PRA
Our Gay History in Fifty States
TMC 306.76 STO
Rainbow Revolutions
TMC 306.76 LAW
The Rainbow Flag
TMC 306.76 FIS
Stonewall Riots
TMC 306.76 PIT
Who Are You?
TMC 305.3 PES
Writing out of the closet : LGBTQ voices from high school
TMC 811.008 WRI
If You're a Kid Like Gavin
TMC 921 GRI
Laverne Cox
TMC 921 COX
Gay America
TMC 306.76 ALS
Understanding Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity
TMC 306.76 ROD
Beyond Magenta
TMC 306.76 KUK
Brave Face
TMC 921 HUT
High School
TMC 920 QUI
The Early History of the Gay Rights Movement
TMC 306.76 BAL
It Gets Better
TMC 306.76 IT
Striving for Equality
TMC 796.086 CRO
The 57 Bus
TMC 364.15 SLA
The Imitation Game: Alan Turing Decoded
TMC 741.5 OTT
Speaking Out: LGBTQ Youth Stand Up
TMC 808.3 SPE
LGBTQ Families
TMC 306.874 APE
Feeling Wrong in Your Own Body
TMC 306.76 SEB
How Beautiful the Ordinary
TMC 808.3 HOW
The Stonewall Riots: a Documentary History
TMC 306.76 STO
The Full Spectrum
TMC 306.76 FUL
Sorted
TMC 306.76 BIR
Top 250 LGBTQ Books for Teens
TMC 011.62 CAR
My Princess Boy
TMC 305.3 KIL
I Am Jazz
TMC 306.76 HER
GLBTQ
TMC 306.76 HUE
Far from the Tree
TMC 362.4 SOL