It’s a phenomenal thing that some of the biggest titles of the last couple of years have been LGBTQ, from Scott Westerfeld’s Afterworlds, to Nina LaCour’s Everything Leads to You, to Andrew Smith’s Printz Honor–winning Grasshopper Jungle, to Jandy Nelson’s Printz Award–winning I’ll Give You the Sun—not to mention some of this year’s most highly lauded […]
Hannah Moskowitz’s A History of Glitter and Blood is singular and sad, a disordered, deeply personal history of interspecies conflict in the fairy town of Ferrum. It’s half story and half love letter, full of crossouts, digressions, and occasional stabs at seriousness (quotes from other, drier works, visual aids). Fairy girl Beckan and her tribe, boys Cricket, Josha, […]
Welcome to another edition of YAs That Get it Right, which is all about YAs that truly nail an element of the teen experience. In honor of Pride Month, today is all about LGBTQIAP+ YA, brought to you by those who know it best. A few of these were pulled from earlier posts to make […]
Literature with transgender main characters is undergoing a much-needed evolution. Gone are the days when the only trans lit you could find in YA still had cisgender main characters, and all the books were by cis authors. And now, not only are we seeing trans main characters and trans authors in the spotlight and winning […]
Finding LGBTQIA books that weren’t about coming out used to be like finding a needle in a haystack, especially when I was a teen. YA books were all about either how awful it was to come out, or an idealistic representation that didn’t live up to real life. Nowadays, LGBTQIA books extend beyond that experience, […]