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!
It’s International Cat Day, so let’s celebrate with these LGBTQ-inclusive board, picture, and middle-grade books involving our feline friends—including a brand-new board book with a two-mom family that’s not “about” being a two-mom family!
Yes, this thorough, graphic-style guide to menstruation from the authoritative Mayo Clinic is fully inclusive of people of all genders who get periods! Read on for my review and how it compares to some similar titles.
The Mombian Database of LGBTQ Family Books now has more than 1300 items in it, up from 1200 this past March! It is, I believe, the largest, most current searchable database of LGBTQ books for ages 0 to 12, and also includes LGBTQ parenting books, kids’ music, and more.
A terrific new series by one of the best middle-grade writers around stars a two-mom, five-kid blended family formed in multiple ways and living by a lagoon on the Jersey Shore.
A spooky tale about a trans girl and an autistic girl who are their town’s last hope. A gentle tale about a fox-girl trying to prove herself worthy of an important role in her nocturnal village. Two new graphic novels offer readers two very different tones, but similar themes of found family and community.
Queer kids save the world (or the kingdom) in these great recent middle-grade books set in fantasy realms or fantastical versions of our own world. If you’re looking for books of action, adventure, and magic, starring queer kids with a variety of intersecting identities, check them out!
There’s something for little kids, middle graders, and grown-ups in three great new LGBTQ-inclusive books out today! Check them out—especially because the queer content in the kids’ books isn’t immediately obvious!
The first must-read, LGBTQ-inclusive middle grade novel of 2023 is set in 1987 at the height of the AIDS epidemic in the U.S., and centers on a girl whose father is dying from complications of AIDS.
As a red-headed, queer, former fencer with a graduate degree in medieval history, I knew I was probably going to like the new sword-swinging, redhead- and queer-led middle grade fantasy novel from Esme Symes-Smith. This joyous, nuanced story with a nonbinary protagonist exceeded even my expectations.
