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New Middle Grade Books With Trans and Nonbinary Protagonists Offer Insight and Adventure

New Middle Grade Books With Trans and Nonbinary Protagonists Offer Insight and Adventure

The start of 2025 has seen a wide range of terrific new middle grade books starring transgender and nonbinary youth, in contemporary settings, a near-future community on Mars, and fantastical worlds of excitement and wonder.

Life in the Slow Lane

Marking Time

Marking Time

My face, my hair, my scalp, look up at me from this snapshot on my Northeastern University alumni ID, pre-pandemic, a younger version of myself.

Living in a Liminal Space

Living in a Liminal Space

The Drumbeat

The Drumbeat

The Mother I Wanted

The Mother I Wanted

Sitting Still

Sitting Still

Holding the Center

Defying erasure

Resist the theft of America and its history

The madness of King Don

Battling the broligarchs

Battling the broligarchs

Repairing Trump's social damage

Repairing Trump's social damage

Donald in the drink

Donald in the drink

Stranded in a hostile land

Stranded in a hostile land

Irene Monroe

In honor of black trans women

Transgender rights have been on the chopping block since the Trump 2.0 administration took office.

We don't need Trump's permission to celebrate us

We don't need Trump's permission to celebrate us

President Jimmy Carter  was my first

President Jimmy Carter was my first

When I accidentally outed Nikki Giovanni

When I accidentally outed Nikki Giovanni

Why HIV/AIDS persists in Black America

Why HIV/AIDS persists in Black America

Billy Masters

Billy Masters 04.03.25

Billy Masters 04.03.25

"I'm not a pedophile, but...," five words you don't ever want to say.

Billy Masters 03.20.25

Billy Masters 03.20.25

Billy Masters 03.06.25

Billy Masters 03.06.25

Billy Masters 02.20.25

Billy Masters 02.20.25

Billy Masters 02.06.25

Billy Masters 02.06.25

Billy Masters 01.23.25

Billy Masters 01.23.25