Tangled

The World of Norm

Both Can Be True

My Gift for You

Nikhil Out Loud

I Am Perfectly Designed

Pride

The Deepest Breath

From the critically acclaimed author of Lies We Tell Ourselves comes an emotional, empowering story of what happens when love may not be enough to conquer all.

Toni and Gretchen are the couple everyone envied in high school. They've been together forever. They never fight. They’re deeply, hopelessly in love. When they separate for their first year at college—Toni to Harvard and Gretchen to NYU—they’re sure they’ll be fine. Where other long-distance relationships have fallen apart, theirs is bound to stay rock-solid.

The reality of being apart, though, is very different than they expected. Toni, who identifies as genderqueer, meets a group of transgender upperclassmen and immediately finds a sense of belonging that has always been missing, but Gretchen struggles to remember who she is outside their relationship.

While Toni worries that Gretchen won’t understand Toni’s new world, Gretchen begins to wonder where she fits in Toni's life. As distance and Toni’s shifting gender identity begins to wear on their relationship, the couple must decide—have they grown apart for good, or is love enough to keep them together?

Discover Your Child's Next Read

Tangled

Walt Disney Company, Lisa Ann Marsoli, 2015

The World of Norm

K.M. Soehnlein, 2000

Both Can Be True

Jules Machias, 2021

My Gift for You

V Moua, 2023

Nikhil Out Loud

Maulik Pancholy, 2022

I Am Perfectly Designed

Karamo Brown, Jason Brown, Anoosha Syed, Jason "Rachel" Brown, 2019

Pride

Lucy Daniels, 2003

The Deepest Breath

Meg Grehan, 2019