YA Pride!

YA Pride!

Come commemorate Pride with these fantastic YA books from amazing queer authors! We're pleased to be hosting ANDREW KEENAN-BOLGER, Broadway star and author of Limelight, BRIAN SELZNICK, Caldecott Medalist and author-illustrator of Run Away With Me, MIA SIEGERT, author of The Names We Buried, and DUSTIN THAO, New York Times bestselling author of You've Found Oliver. Join us as we celebrate these can't-miss queer YA reads!

About the Books

Limelight by ANDREW KEENAN-BOLGER

New York City, 1996. For fifteen years, Staten Islander Danny Victorio has kept his head down, his mouth shut, and everyone out. Now, as a new student at LaGuardia High School of Performing Arts, he's thrust into a world of fierce talent and fiery ambition. As he navigates overwhelming expectations, the ghosts of his past, and, for the first time, real friendship, Danny can’t shake the question: Where do I belong…if I belong at all? This is a story about discovering your voice, finding your family, and figuring out who, and where, you’re really meant to be.

Run Away With Me written and illustrated by BRIAN SELZNICK

Danny is spending his sixteenth summer in Rome. As his mother spends the day at work in a mysterious museum, he wanders the ancient sites and streets. There, he encounters a shadow... who becomes a voice... who becomes a boy his age. Angelo.

Soon, Danny and Angelo are spending as much time as they can together, piecing together stories of the city while only gradually letting their own histories be shared. Attraction leads to affection, and affection leads to intimate closeness and a profound fear of what happens next. Danny has never really had a home, or known the love of another boy. Angelo seems to have more experience, but he also has secrets just out of Danny’s reach.

The Names We Buried by MIA SIEGERT

Jaden's seventeenth birthday was meant to be monumental. As a surprise, his dad and Jaden’s boyfriend, Andy, arranged to take him to the courthouse to get his name changed to reflect his gender. But, horrifyingly, the clerk accuses Jaden's dad of forging Jaden's original birth certificate, and due to his criminal past, he's arrested.

Heartbroken but also suspicious, Jaden secretly takes a DNA test and makes an even more shocking discovery: he's not biologically related to his dad. Jaden can't imagine his mother cheating, but the truth might be worse -- further DNA testing also identifies Jaden as a perfect genetic match for a couple who have spent the last seventeen years searching for their kidnapped child.

Their kidnapped daughter.

After years of struggling to come to terms with his gender identity as well as his parents' complicated pasts, Jaden is forced to re-evaluate everything. Who is he really? And where does he belong? With the dad who raised and loved him, and supported his transition without question? Or with the parents Jaden's never met, who might never be able to accept Jaden as their son?

You've Found Oliver by DUSTIN THAO

It’s been a year since his best friend, Sam, died. Even though Oliver knows he won’t get a response, he can’t stop texting Sam’s number, especially as the anniversary of his death approaches.

Then one day he accidentally hits the call button, and someone picks up.

The voice on the other end isn’t Sam. Sam’s number was reassigned and a stranger has been receiving Oliver’s private and vulnerable messages for months. But Ben, a college student in Seattle, won’t remain a stranger for long. Oliver knows he should stop communicating now that he knows the truth—but he can’t get Ben out of his head.

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