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Don’t Let the Forest In and Hazelthorn by CG Drews (YA)
Tripping Arcadia by Kit Mayquist
A Botanical Daughter by Noah Medlock
Such Pretty Flowers by K.L. Cerra
Moonflow by Bitter Karella
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Happy Autism Acceptance Month 2025!
It’s Autism Acceptance Month, and we are of course celebrating by highlighting books with queer autistic protagonists!
Middle Grade
Ellen Outside the Lines by A.J. Sass
Thirteen-year-old Ellen Katz feels most comfortable when her life is well planned out and people fit neatly into her predefined categories. She attends temple with Abba and Mom every Friday and Saturday. Ellen only gets crushes on girls, never boys, and she knows she can always rely on her best-and-only friend, Laurel, to help navigate social situations at their private Georgia middle school. Laurel has always made Ellen feel like being autistic is no big deal. But lately, Laurel has started making more friends, and cancelling more weekend plans with Ellen than she keeps. A school trip to Barcelona seems like the perfect place for Ellen to get their friendship back on track.
Except it doesn’t. Toss in a new nonbinary classmate whose identity has Ellen questioning her very binary way of seeing the world, homesickness, a scavenger hunt-style team project that takes the students through Barcelona to learn about Spanish culture and this trip is anything but what Ellen planned.
Making new friends and letting go of old ones is never easy, but Ellen might just find a comfortable new place for herself if she can learn to embrace the fact that life doesn’t always stick to a planned itinerary.
New Releases: October 29, 2024
Middle Grade
Sir Callie and the Witch’s War by Esme Symes-Smith
This is the third book in the Sir Callie series
Being a hero is nothing like the ballads promised it would be. Scattered across the realm, Callie, Willow, Elowen, and Edwyn have learned that when the fate of their world is at stake, choices are hard and the consequences are harder, even when striving for good.
Hunted by both Helston and Dumoor, Callie and Willow flee to the walled city of Fairkeep in a last-ditch effort to find allies. Meanwhile, at Alis’s side, Elowen grapples with a battle between her heart and her ambition as the Witch Queen’s new protégé. Edwyn, desperate to prove himself as brave as his friends, accepts a mission that takes him back to the source of his nightmares: home. Helston.
Faced with the reality of a devastating war, all four champions are forced to confront the very parts of themselves they fear most, and each must do it alone. But how can they find the truth within a kingdom founded on lies?
Fave Five: New Queer YA Horror, 2024 Edition
Yeah, so there are eight; sue me. It’s a great year for queer YA Horror!
So Witches We Became by Jill Baguchinsky
Don’t Let the Forest In by CG Drews
The Dark We Know by Wen-Yi Lee
Come Out, Come Out by Natalie C. Parker
Trespass Against Us by Leon Kemp
They Thought They Buried Us by NoNieqa Ramos
What the Woods Took by Courtney Gould
Rest in Peaches by Alex Brown
