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YA Books About Transgender Characters

There haven’t been a lot of young adult books published about transgender characters. This list is not meant to be a “best of” list — it is simply a list of the titles that we are aware of, and we are sure there are more we aren’t aware of. This list is limited to titles published specifically for a young adult audience, which means titles published for adults that teens might still enjoy aren’t included.

• I am J by Cris Beam (Little, Brown)
• One in Every Crowd by Ivan E. Coyote (Arsenal Pulp)
• Beautiful Music for Ugly Children by Kirstin Cronn-Mills (Flux)
• Happy Families by Tanita S. Davis (Knopf)
• f2m: the boy within by Hazel Edwards and Ryan Kennedy (Ford Street Publishing, Australia)
• Being Emily by Rachel Gold (Bella Books)
• Jumpstart the World by Catherine Ryan Hyde (Knopf)
• Almost Perfect by Brian Katcher (Delacorte)
• Luna by Julie Anne Peters (Little, Brown)
• Parrotfish by Ellen Wittlinger (Simon & Schuster)

Do you have a favorite YA book about a transgender character? Please tell us why you loved it!