Matteo

Girl Hearts Girl

My Selma: True Stories of a Southern Childhood at the Height of the Civil Rights Movement

And We Rise

Go with the Flow

Soldier's Heart: Being the Story of the Enlistment and Due Service of the Boy Charley Goddard in the First Minnesota Volunteers

The Hired Girl

Child of the Civil Rights Movement

A heartfelt debut novel about a boy's attempt to find himself in the history he loves--perfect for fans of Dear Sweet Pea and From the Desk of Zoe Washington.

Amos Abernathy lives for history. Literally. He's been a historical reenactor nearly all his life. But when a cute new volunteer arrives at his Living History Park, Amos finds himself wondering if there's something missing from history: someone like the two of them.

Amos is sure there must have been LGBTQ+ people in nineteenth-century Illinois. His search turns up Albert D. J. Cashier, a Civil War soldier who might have identified as a trans man if he'd lived today. Soon Amos starts confiding in his newfound friend by writing letters in his journal--and hatches a plan to share Albert's story with his divided twenty-first century town. It may be an uphill battle, but it's one that Amos is ready to fight.

Told in an earnest, hilarious voice, this love letter to history, first crushes, and LGBTQ+ community will delight readers of Ashley Herring Blake, Alex Gino, or Maulik Pancholy.

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Michael Leali, 2023

Girl Hearts Girl

Lucy Sutcliffe, 2016

My Selma: True Stories of a Southern Childhood at the Height of the Civil Rights Movement

Willie Mae Brown, 2023

And We Rise

Erica Martin, 2022

Go with the Flow

Lily Williams, Karen Schneemann, 2020

Soldier's Heart: Being the Story of the Enlistment and Due Service of the Boy Charley Goddard in the First Minnesota Volunteers

Gary Paulsen, 1998

The Hired Girl

Laura Amy Schlitz, 2015

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Paula Young Shelton, 2009