5 LGBTQIA+ Books for Kids and Teens

Enjoy this rainbow of books celebrating Pride Month, brought to you by Holiday House, Peachtree Publishing, and Pixel+Ink’s for readers ages 3 to 18.

Tuesday Is Daddy’s Day

by Elliot Kreloff, Ages 3–7

Based on the author’s own family, this book is a reminder that family comes in many forms, but always comes with love. Becky has two rooms: one at Mommy’s house and one at Daddy’s apartment, which he shares with his partner Harry. Daddy usually picks her up after school on Tuesdays, but one Tuesday mommy is there instead! What’s going on? Becky likes everything to be the same, but soon learns change can lead to a happy surprise!

Adventures with My Daddies

by Gareth Peter, illustrated Garry Parsons, Ages 4–8

Set off on a series of incredible adventures with an endearing, diverse family as the bedtime stories they read burst into colorful life. In this #OwnVoices picture book, the daddies and their little one battle dragons, dodge deadly dinosaurs, zoom to the moon, and explore the world in a hot air balloon, before winding down to sleep in a wonderfully cozy ending.

Black Sand Beach 2: Do You Remember the Summer Before?

by Richard Fairgray, Ages 8–12

A revelation about how Dash may or may not have spent the summer before raises the stakes even higher in the second installment of the eerie and enthralling Black Sand Beach series. Deliciously creepy and difficult to put down, the graphic novel returns readers to a supernatural shore they'll never forget. This book finds the kids in another spooky adventure that cuts back and forth between summers to find out what really happened to Dash.

Forget This Ever Happened

by Cassandra Rose Clarke, Ages 14

There's nothing too remarkable about Indianola: it's run-down, shabby, and sweltering, a pin-dot on the Gulf Coast. Except there is something remarkable. Memories shimmer and change. Lizards whisper riddles under the pecan trees. And worst of all, a red-lightning storm from beyond our world may just wipe the whole town off the map, if Claire and her maybe-girlfriend Julie can't stop it. Surprising, brilliant, and, like, totally tight, Forget This Ever Happened is speculative horror at its finest, featuring an #OwnVoices Queer romance and dark, dazzling world-building.

The People We Choose

by Katelyn Detweiler , Ages 14 and up

Calliope has never wanted anything more than her two best friends, her moms, their house in the woods, and their family-run yoga studio—except maybe knowing who her sperm donor is. She can finally find out this summer when she turns eighteen. Then she meets her new neighbor Max, and she immediately feels a special connection, one that feels different than just friendship. But when Calliope contacts her sperm donor, she learns a surprising truth: her donor is Max's father. As she and Max struggle to redefine their friendship, Calliope realizes she has much to gain by recognizing and accepting that family is both the one she has been born into, and the one she chooses to make.