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In 2014, Maia Kobabe, who uses e/em/eir pronouns, thought that a comic of reading statistics would be the last autobiographical comic e would ever write. At the time, it was the only thing e felt comfortable with strangers knowing about em. Now, Gender Queer is here. Maia's intensely cathartic autobiography charts eir journey of self-identity, which includes the mortification and confusion of adolescent crushes, grappling with how to come out to family...
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Edwardsville Public Library - Young Adult Non-Fiction - Teen Room
Y 306.76 JOH
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Y 306.76 JOH
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4 copies, 2 people are on the wait list.
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4 copies, 2 people are on the wait list.
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In a series of personal essays, prominent journalist and LGBTQIA+ activist George M. Johnson explores his childhood, adolescence, and college years in New Jersey and Virginia. From the memories of getting his teeth kicked out by bullies at age five, to flea marketing with his loving grandmother, to his first sexual relationships, this young-adult memoir weaves together the trials and triumphs faced by Black queer boys.
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Edwardsville Public Library - Young Adult Non-Fiction - Teen Room
Y 306.76 DAW
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Y 306.76 DAW
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A book for everyone, regardless of gender or sexual preference, who's ever wondered about the subject of being gay. Inside you'll find the answers to all the questions: from sex to politics, hooking up to stereotypes, coming out and more. This candid, funny, and uncensored exploration of sexuality and what it's like to grow up LGBT also includes real stories from people across the gender and sexual spectrums, for "coming out," as a lesbian, gay guy,...
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Edwardsville Public Library - Young Adult Fiction - Teen Room
Y FIC CHBOSKY
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Y FIC CHBOSKY
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A haunting coming of age novel told in a series of letters to an unknown correspondent reveals the life of Charlie, a freshman in high school who is a wallflower, shy and introspective, and very intelligent, it's a story of what it's like to grow up in high school, tracing a course through uncharted territory in the world of first dates, family dramas and new friends.
5) Flamer
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Edwardsville Public Library - Young Adult Graphic Novel - Teen Room
Y GRAPHIC CURATO
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Y GRAPHIC CURATO
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It's the summer between middle school and high school, and Aiden Navarro is away at camp. Everyone's going through changes--but for Aiden, the stakes feel higher. As he navigates friendships, deals with bullies, and spends time with Elias (a boy he can't stop thinking about), he finds himself on a path of self-discovery and acceptance.
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Edwardsville Public Library - Audiobook, CD - Adult Library
CD FIC MORRISON
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CD FIC MORRISON
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Eleven-year-old Pecola Breedlove, an African-American girl in an America whose love for blonde, blue-eyed children can devastate all others, prays for her eyes to turn blue, so that she will be beautiful, people will notice her, and her world will be different. Shunned by the town's prosperous black families, as well as its white families, Pecola lives with her alcoholic father and embittered, overworked mother in a shabby two-room storefront that...
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Edwardsville Public Library - Young Adult Fiction - Teen Room
Y FIC ANDREWS
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Y FIC ANDREWS
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It is a universally acknowledged truth that high school sucks. But on the first day of his senior year, Greg Gaines thinks he's figured it out. The answer to the basic existential question: How is it possible to exist in a place that sucks so bad? His strategy: remain at the periphery at all times. Keep an insanely low profile. Make mediocre films with the one person who is even sort of his friend, Earl. This plan works for exactly eight hours. Then...
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A graphic novel about sex, sexuality, gender, body, consent, and many other topics for teens.
10) Sold
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Thirteen-year-old Lakshmi leaves her poor mountain home in Nepal thinking that she is to work in the city as a maid only to find that she has been sold into the sex slave trade in India and that there is no hope of escape.
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Edwardsville Public Library - Young Adult Fiction - Teen Room
Y FIC ALEXIE
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Y FIC ALEXIE
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4 copies, 10 people are on the wait list.
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Budding cartoonist Junior leaves his troubled school on the Spokane Indian Reservation to attend an all-white farm town school where the only other Indian is the school mascot.
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Captain Underpants volume 1
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Edwardsville Public Library - Juvenile Fiction - Popular Juvenile Series
J PILKEY
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J PILKEY
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The adventures of Captain Underpants: When George and Harold hypnotize their principal into thinking that he is the superhero Captain Underpants, he leads them to the lair of the nefarious Dr. Diaper, where they must defeat his evil robot henchmen.
Captain Underpants and the perilous plot of Professor Poopypants: When Professor Pippy P. Poopypants comes to Jerome Horwitz Elementary School to teach science, he goes off the deep end because students...
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When high school student Clay Jenkins receives a box in the mail containing thirteen cassette tapes recorded by his classmate Hannah, who committed suicide, he spends a bewildering and heartbreaking night crisscrossing their town, listening to Hannah's voice recounting the events leading up to her death.
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Edwardsville Public Library - Young Adult Fiction - Teen Room
Y FIC GREEN
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Y FIC GREEN
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Before. Sixteen-year-old Miles “Pudge” Halter is done with his safe life at home. His whole life has been one big non-event, and his obsession with famous last words has only made him crave “the Great Perhaps” even more. He heads off to the sometimes crazy and anything-but-boring world of Culver Creek Boarding School, and his life becomes the opposite of safe. Because down the hall is Alaska Young. The gorgeous, clever, funny, sexy, self-destructive,...
15) George
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Edwardsville Public Library - Juvenile Fiction - Children's Library
J GINO
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J GINO
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"When people look at George, they think they see a boy. But she knows she's not a boy. She knows she's a girl. George thinks she'll have to keep this a secret forever. Then her teacher announces that their class play is going to be Charlotte's Web. George really, really, REALLY wants to play Charlotte. But the teacher says she can't even try out for the part ... because she's a boy. With the help of her best friend, Kelly, George comes up with a plan....
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Edwardsville Public Library - Easy Fiction - Children's Library
E RICHARDSON
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E RICHARDSON
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At New York City's Central Park Zoo, two male penguins fall in love and start a family by taking turns sitting on an abandoned egg until it hatches. Based on a true story.
17) Drama
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5 copies, 16 people are on the wait list.
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Edwardsville Public Library - Young Adult Graphic Novel - Teen Room
Y GRAPHIC TELGEMEIER
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Y GRAPHIC TELGEMEIER
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5 copies, 16 people are on the wait list.
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Designing sets for her middle school's play, Callie tries to overcome limited carpentry skills, low ticket sales, and squabbling crew members only to find her efforts further complicated by the arrival of two cute brothers.
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Edwardsville Public Library - Adult Fiction - Adult Library
FIC HOSSEINI
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FIC HOSSEINI
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Edwardsville Public Library - Audiobook, CD - Adult Library
CD FIC HOSSEINI
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CD FIC HOSSEINI
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11 copies, 12 people are on the wait list.
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9 copies, 7 people are on the wait list.
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9 copies, 7 people are on the wait list.
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Edwardsville Public Library - Large Print - Adult Library
LP FIC HOSSEINI
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LP FIC HOSSEINI
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An epic tale of fathers and sons, of friendship and betrayal, that takes us from Afghanistan in the final days of the monarchy to the atrocities of the present day. The unforgettable, heartbreaking story of the unlikely friendship between a wealthy Afghan youth and the son of his father's servant, The Kite Runner is a beautifully crafted novel set in a country that is in the process of being destroyed. It is about the power of reading, the price of...
19) I am Jazz!
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Edwardsville Public Library - Easy Fiction - Children's Library
E HERTHEL
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E HERTHEL
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Presents the story of a transgender child who traces her early awareness that she is a girl in spite of male anatomy and the acceptance she finds through a wise doctor who explains her natural transgender status.
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To kill a mockingbird volume 1
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Edwardsville Public Library - Audiobook, CD - Adult Library
CD FIC LEE
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CD FIC LEE
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Edwardsville Public Library - Audiobook, MP3 - Adult Library
MP3-CD FIC LEE
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MP3-CD FIC LEE
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41 copies, 1 person is on the wait list.
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5 copies, 6 people are on the wait list.
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5 copies, 6 people are on the wait list.
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"Shoot all the bluejays you want, if you can hit 'em, but remember it's a sin to kill a mockingbird." A lawyer's advice to his children as he defends the real mockingbird of Harper Lee's classic novel--a black man charged with the rape of a white girl. Through the young eyes of Scout and Jem Finch, Harper Lee explores with rich humor and unswerving honesty the irrationality of adult attitudes toward race and class in the Deep South of the 1930s. The...