LGBTQIA - Young Adult Books With Lesbian Characters

Yuzu Aihara, a fun loving girl, is transferred to a strict all-girls school due to the remarriage of her mother. Mei Aihara, a hard-working and cold student council president, becomes Yuzu's new step sister. Their "relationship" starts as they are forced to share a room and Mei suddenly kisses Yuzu out of the blue.

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High school sophomore, Clementine, is thrilled when a cute senior, Thomas, asks her to go out with him. While she’s waiting for Thomas in the town square, she locks eyes with a blue-haired girl she cannot get out of her mind. After months of dating Thomas and dreaming of the blue-haired stranger, Clementine realizes something must change.

Cass breeds Reckkoners, sea monsters who protect and guide ships in the future. When she gets kidnapped by pirates and ordered to raise a Reckoner pup she becomes conflicted when she gets to know the trainee in charge of her safety.

A collection of short stories about coming out, growing up LGBTQ, or with LGBTQ family and friends. Written by a variety of popular fiction authors, including Francesca Lia Block.

Avery, Nina, and Mel have always been best friends. But everything changes when Avery and Mel start dating the summer before senior year, while Nina is away at Stanford University for a pre-college program.

A movingly beautiful novel in verse dealing with OCD and intrusive thoughts. Ariel, a queer girl trying to survive her parent's expectations has to deal with violent fantasies and wants help that no one will give her. Her rituals and isolation won't keep those around her safe, but during a summer job, new friends are met who might be the support she needs for a future.

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Aspiring production designer Emi unearths a letter while looking for set pieces at an estate sale, which leads her on a journey that ends and begins with Ava, a drifter and the ultimate recipient of the letter.

As one of the first African American students to attend Jefferson High School in 1959 Virginia, Sarah faces discrimination and abuse on a daily basis. When she and the white daughter of a rabid segregationist are forced to work together on a school project, however, the two girls begin to realize they have feelings for one another.

Hurricanes, mutated animals, and surviving a deadly boss, the mystery in the water may rise up to meet you. Queer, haunting, and mysterious.

Bo, the girl from the wrong side of the tracks, and Agnes, legally blind and stifling under the protection of her overprotective parents, tell their story in alternating voices. At turns an emotional drama about two friends who evolve into something more and a non-stop tale of two runaways trying to stay on the run until they can figure out where to run to.

Mark and Kate have been classmates for the past year but wind up meeting for the first time at a bar in the middle of their first San Francisco Pride Week, a week in which they go from strangers to the most unique of friends.

The lives of three generations of women unfold after Caroline is forced to take in her estranged mother, Mary who suffers from dementia. While desperate to find a home for her, Caroline's daughter Katie assumes more care for the grandmother she's just met, eventually writing a history of the things she remembers while she can still remember them. Mary's history, and the mysteries it reveal, prompt Katie to discover the woman she wants to be.

Suzette, also known as Little, is a girl who is still trying to figure out her sexuality. Is she bisexual, pansexual, queer…? She’s especially trying to find an answer because there’s this boy she thinks she may be falling for. 

Sixteen-year-old Marigold “Goldie” Vance is the coolest new girl detective on the block. She lives at a Florida hotel with her dad, who manages the place. Goldie’s world is filled with a diverse cast of characters in a 50's era mystery full of car racers, surfers, and spies. There is also a budding love story between Goldie and local girl Diane.

For ten years skating was very important to Tillie Walden because the rink was a break from problems: bullies, school, and family pressures. Things change when her family moves to Texas because at her new school Tillie feeds her growing interest in art and starts a fledgling relationship with her first girlfriend. She struggles with how to reconcile to herself, her family and friends that it's time for her to move on. 

Marin hasn’t spoken to anyone from her old life since the day she left everything behind. No one knows the truth about those final weeks. Not even her best friend, Mabel. But even thousands of miles away from the California coast, at college in New York, Marin still feels the pull of the life and tragedy she’s tried to outrun. The book details Marin’s exploration of her sexuality and her complicated relationship with her best friend.

Seventeen-year-old Sahar has been in love with her best friend, Nasrin, since they were six. They’ve shared stolen kisses and romantic promises. But Iran is a dangerous place for two girls in love—Sahar and Nasrin could be beaten, imprisoned, even executed if their relationship came to light.