Bad Apple

Bea Is for Blended

Where Is Grandpa's Smile?

The Whatif Monster Chapter Book Series: A New Friend for Jonathan James

Just Jaime

While I Was Away

Born Ready: The True Story of a Boy Named Penelope

Lily's Promise

Winner of the Lambda Literary Award for LGBT Children’s/Young Adult
One of Rolling Stone’s 40 Best YA Novels
A 2014 ALA Rainbow List Top 10 Title
A Booklist Top 10 First Novels for Youth 2013
A Chicago Public Library “Best of the Best” 2013

This Forbidden Romance Could Cost Them Their Lives

Seventeen-year-old Sahar has been in love with her best friend, Nasrin, since they were six. They’ve shared stolen kisses and romantic promises. But Iran is a dangerous place for two girls in love--Sahar and Nasrin could be beaten, imprisoned, even executed. So they carry on in secret until Nasrin’s parents suddenly announce that they’ve arranged for her marriage. Then Sahar discovers what seems like the perfect solution: homosexuality may be a crime, but to be a man trapped in a woman’s body is seen as nature’s mistake, and sex reassignment is legal and accessible. Sahar will never be able to love Nasrin in the body she wants to be loved in without risking their lives, but is saving their love worth sacrificing her true self?

 

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Bad Apple

T. R. Burns, 2012

Bea Is for Blended

Lindsey Stoddard, 2021

Where Is Grandpa's Smile?

Maria Keane Pascuzzi, Dasha Hamit, 2023

The Whatif Monster Chapter Book Series: A New Friend for Jonathan James

Michelle Nelson-Schmidt, 2019

Just Jaime

Terri Libenson, 2019

While I Was Away

Waka T. Brown, 2021

Born Ready: The True Story of a Boy Named Penelope

Charnelle Pinkney Barlow, Jodie Patterson, 2021

Lily's Promise

Kathryn Erskine, 2021