Kao Studios

Summary: Although he was assigned female at birth, Max is your average trans man trying to get through high school as himself. But on top of classes, crushes, and coming out, Max's life is turned upside down when his mom reveals an eons old family secret: he's descended from a long line of Magical Girls tasked with defending humanity from a dark, ancient evil! With a sassy feline sidekick and loyal gang...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Graphix, an imprint of Scholastic 2021

Copies Available at East Bay

1 available in Young Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: YA 741.5 THE

McAdam, Tash

Summary: "Sixteen-year-old shy, socially awkward trans teen Bass reluctantly skips school and goes on a boat trip with his adventure-seeking girlfriend, Rosie. When a sudden storm smashes their boat on a rocky shore off a deserted island, Bass and Rosie struggle to make it to safety. Bruised and battling hypothermia, the pair have to seek shelter and work together to survive until they can be rescued....

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Publisher / Publication Date: Orca Book Publishers 2021

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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC MCA

Wilkes, Ally

Summary: "In the wake of the First World War, Jonathan Morgan stows away on an Antarctic expedition, determined to find his rightful place in the world of men. Aboard the expeditionary ship of his hero, the world-famous explorer James "Australis" Randall, Jonathan may live as his true self--and true gender--and have the adventures he has always been denied. But not all is smooth sailing: the war casts...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2022

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1 available in Adult, Call number: LP FIC WIL

Winterson, Jeanette

Summary: "Lake Geneva, 1816. Nineteen-year-old Mary Shelley is inspired to write a story about a scientist who creates a new life-form. In Brexit Britain, a young transgender doctor called Ry is falling in love with Victor Stein, a celebrated professor leading the public debate around AI and carrying out some experiments of his own in a vast underground network of tunnels. Meanwhile, Ron Lord, just...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Grove Press 2019

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WIN

Levy, E. J. (Ellen J.)

Summary: A novel inspired by the life of Dr. James Miranda Barry follows a penniless Irish girl who adopts the identity of a boy in order to enter medical school, and embracing the freedom of living life as a man, becomes one of the most well-respected physicians in nineteenth-century Cape Town.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2021

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LEV

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LEV

Chant, Austin

Summary: The Lost Boys say that Peter Pan went back to England because of Wendy Darling, but Wendy is just an old life he left behind. Neverland is his real home. So when Peter returns to it after ten years in the real world, he’s surprised to find a Neverland that no longer seems to need him. The only person who truly missed Peter is Captain James Hook, who is delighted to have his old rival back. But...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Austin Chant 2021

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CHA

Machias, Jules

Summary: Daniel and Ash cross paths when a pomeranian is about to be euthanized; the sensitive Dan rescues the dog and Ash offers to help on a day when they are female-presenting. As the friendship grows, Ash feels less and less able to be their full self -- sometimes male and sometimes female -- in front of Dan without knowing that both people find themselves constantly at war with their non-conforming...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Quill Tree Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2021

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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC MAC

Gow, Robin

Summary: Two seventeen-year-old trans boys in Kutztown, Pennsylvania, struggling to understand themselves and their love for each other, are inspired by an online story about trans soldiers who fell in love during the American Revolution.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar Straus Giroux 2022

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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC GOW

Felker-Martin, Gretchen

Summary: "Beth and Fran spend their days traveling the ravaged New England coast, hunting feral men and harvesting their organs in a gruesome effort to ensure they'll never face the same fate. Robbie lives by his gun and one hard-learned motto: other people aren't safe. After a brutal accident entwines the three of them, this found family of survivors must navigate murderous TERFs, a sociopathic...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Nightfire 2022

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FEL

Pitman, Gayle E.

Summary: A child celebrates her Maddy, who is neither mommy nor daddy but a little bit of both, like so many things in nature. Includes note to parents.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Magination Press 2020

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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE PIT