Recommended Book Pairs to Double Your LGBTQ Reading Fun!

If one LGBTQ-inclusive book is good, two are better! Here are some pairs of middle-grade books with common themes—if you like one, you (or the young readers in your life) might like the other, too!

Click images for reviews—and stay tuned: I’ll showcase more pairs soon, for both middle-grade and other ages!

Time loops to get things right

You Only Live Once, David Bravo
Vivian Lantz's Second Chances

Queer teens with Crohn’s disease

Will on the Inside
The Year My Life Went Down the Toilet

Nonbinary figure skaters

Ana on the Edge
Skating on Mars

Soon-to-be stepfamilies

To Nightowl from Dogfish
The Sister Split

Queer kids discovering queer history

Alice Austen Lived Here
The Civil War of Amos Abernathy
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