2SLGBTQIA+ Resources

This book shows a toddler spending the day with their daddies. 

This book shows a toddler spending the day with their mommies. 

 Two penguins named Roy and Silo get the chance to welcome a baby penguin of their very own. 

This book was inspired by the author's son who loves to dress up.

From the time she was two years old, Jazz knew that she had a girl's brain in a boy's body. This story is based on one of the author's real-life experience .

A Tale of Two Mommies is a beach conversation among three children. One boy asks another boy about having two mommies. 

Aidan, a transgender boy, prepares to become  a new brother. 

From the publisher: "When a worm meets a special worm and they fall in love and get married! Their friends want to know—who will wear the dress? And who will wear the tux? The answer is: It doesn't matter. Because worm loves worm."

A novel about a transgender boy's journey  towards acceptance. 

Jock, an all star baseball player, joins a Toronto inner city baseball team. When rivals find out he's gay, his teammate Nash has to decide whether or not to stand by him.

From the cover: "When people look at George, they think they see a boy. But she knows she's not a boy. She knows she's a girl."

Rick is novel about a boy named Rick who is  entering middle school and is questioning his sexual identity. 

Drama is a graphic novel which  features a diverse set of characters that humorously explores friendship and crushes.

This book celebrate family diversity and how different doesn't mean wrong. 

The Pants Project is about an eleven-year-old transgender boy Liv, who is determined to challenge his school's dress code and change his life. 

Gracefully Grayson is a novel about Grayson Sender who is a girl on the inside, stuck in the wrong gender's body.  

Lily and Dunkin explores the relationship between Lily, who is a transgender girl, and Dunkin, who is new to town and suffers from bipolar disorder.

 This information text aims to help readers deal with transphobia, whether they're the target, the transphobe or the witness. 

This information text explores how Pride came to be and what it means to those who celebrate it. 

The Geography Club is about a group of LBGT youth who form a school club in order to meet without drawing attention to themselves. 

 Toby meets her father who is gay man and a famous female impersonator. 

This novel spans six years in the lives of two best friends who share a birthday. This includes experiencing major life events like moving, and the death of loved ones. One of the character is also struggling with gender identity.

Billed as a "coming out again" story,  the main character of this novel decides not to disclose his sexual orientation while attending boarding school. 

This novel focus around two teens who each have two moms.  The teens were conceived through in vitro fertilization and go in search of their father.

Beautiful and popular Ashley’s life is turned upside down when her father reveals he is gay and her parents get divorced. 

Seventeen-year-old Molly has a complicated life: a twin sister starting a new relationship with Mina, and lesbian moms who are to be married. 

"Love Is the Higher Law" is a novel of loss and grief, but also one of hope and redemption as the characters slowly learn to move forward in their lives, despite being changed forever. 

From the publisher: "Sixteen-year-old, not-so-openly-gay Simon Spier is blackmailed into playing wingman for his classmate or else his sexual identity—and that of his pen pal—will be revealed".

This novel, written as in verse as 68 monologues from various points of view, is a response to  the murder of gay teenager  Matthew Sheppard in 1998. 

When strangers Rufus and Mateo receive an alert from Death-Cast that they each have less than a day to live, they look for a friend to share the day with via an app. The two begin a friendship and an adventure on their last day on Earth .

A novel about a boy who was mistakenly born a girl who decides to stop hiding and live his true life.

The main character, Ramona, is sure she likes girls. However, when she reconnects with an old friend, Freddie, she snow starts to question whether she likes girls and guys.

A memoir about a girl, born as a boy, who undergoes gender assignment as a teenager. 

By chance, four near-strangers end up together on junior prom night. They get into trouble, argue and ultimately help each other out over the course of the night.

This information text answers more than one hundred questions asked by teenagers about being gay. 

This is the story of A, a teen aged boy who wakes up every morning in a different body, living a different life 

Danny thinks he must be the only seventeen-year-old guy in Cape Breton, who doesn't have his life figured out.   Worst of all, he's keeping a secret that could ruin everything