LGBTQIA - Young Adult Books With LGBTQIA Parents

Light, breezy romance follows super flirt Kat. Newly ostracized from her friends aafter innocently flirting with her best friend's boyfriend, she's off for the summer with her two dads to their lake cabin where she meets Emmett. New to the summer lake community, she finds herself drawn to him despite the fact that her cousin Harper has asked for her help in attracting Emmett for herself.

Three misfits become friends and form a unique bond over the course of the school year that tests their friendship as well as themselves when Sebby and Mira invite Jeremy into their intimate circle. Jeremy is starting the new school at St. Francis a year after a bullying incident that shined a glaring light on him and his two dads. Lovely, highly individualized and beautifully realized characters centering around Jeremy, a misfit whose previous school year ended with a homophobic bullying incident after he suggested there were gay themes in The Great Gatsby

It's the summer before their freshman year of college, and New Jerseyan Elizabeth reaches out to her assigned roommate Lauren in San Francisco, touching off a summer of correspondence as they circle around their differences, find commonalities from a distance, and slowly develop a friendship.

Set in 1993, Mira enters her senior year and has to cope with discovering that her father is not only having an affair with another man, but that he's contracted HIV, and that her parents have an open relationship. Throughout the year, she'll learn about what it means to love and forgive, and to learn and grow.

When Stewart's dad gets involved with Ashley's mom, Stewart and his Dad move into Ashley and her mother's house. Stewart goes to a new school where popular Ashley does her best to distance herself from him. Told in alternating points of view, Stewart and Ashley must both grapple with not only their parents' relationship, but the presence of Ashley's father, who's coming out prompted her parent's divorce, as he lives in the guest house out back.

A story set on the American border with Mexico, about family and friendship, life and death, and one teen struggling to understand what his adoption does and doesn't mean about who he is. Sal's rich, complex relationships with his friends and adoptive gay father serve as his foundation during his senior year of high school which finds him behaving in uncharacteristic ways in response to a variety of events in his life.

Yaichi lives a normal life in Tokyo with his daughter Natsuki, until the day a Canadian man shows up at his door, claiming to be his brother’s husband. In closeted Japan, this book opens up borders and boundaries. Yaichi learns to share his brother’s childhood with this stranger, and also learns to deal with a gay brother-in-law. A humorous book that shows how change can happen slowly.