15 Pride reads for youth
Celebrate Pride all year round with these reads for children and teens.
June 30, 2016, marks the final day of Canada's inaugural Pride month — 30 days dedicated to celebrating the hard-won rights of LGBTQ people. Why not keep the celebration going all year round in your family's reading?
We've curated this special reading list for young readers, full of books that celebrate difference and champion diversity — from novels for teens to picture books for kids.
Young Adult Books
- Money Boy by Paul Yee
- Saving Montgomery Sole by Mariko Tamaki
- Swimming in the Monsoon Sea by Shyam Selvadurai
- One in Every Crowd by Ivan Coyote
- When Everything Feels Like the Movies by Raziel Reid
Middle Grade Books
- Pride: Celebrating Diversity & Community by Robin Stevenson
- Drama by Raina Telgemeier
- George by Alex Gino
- Gracefully Grayson by Ami Polonsky
- Stitches by Glen Huser
Picture Books
- Love is in the Hair by Syrus Marcus Ware
- M is for Mustache: A Pride ABC Book by Catherine Hernandez
- Morris Micklewhite and the Tangerine Dress by Christine Baldacchino
- And Tango Makes Three by Justin Richardson and Peter Parnell
- This Day in June by Gayle E. Pitman