GLBT Books Available at the Library

Gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender books are available at the Warren Township Library and at other branches of the Somerset County Library System.

I Am J by Cris Beam - J, who feels like a boy mistakenly born as a girl, runs away from his best friend who has rejected him and the parents he thinks do not understand him when he finally decides that it is time to be who he really is. (High School Reader)

Fat Angie by e.E. Charlton-Trujillo - Angie overeats to cope wth the taunts of the ultra-mean girls, her attempted suicide in front of a packed gym, and the status of her captured war-hero sister, until KC Romance comes to town and sees Angie for who she really is. (High School Reader; also available as an e-book)

This Book is Gay by James Dawson - Offers basic information about the gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender experience. (High School Reader; also available as an e-book)

Tell Me Again How a Crush Should Feel by Sara Farizan - Having never developed romantic feelings before her junior year in high school, Persian-American Leila forges deeper bonds with supportive classmates after confiding in them her newfound attachment to a girl. (High School Reader)

Better Nate Than Ever by Tim Federle - An eighth-grader who dreams of performing in Broadway musical concocts a plan to run away to New York and audition for the role of Elliot in the musical version of "E.T." (Middle School Reader; also available as an e-book)

Totally Joe by James Howe - As a school assignment, a 13-year-old boy writes an alphabiography - life from A to Z - and explores issues of friendship, family, school and the challenges of being a gay teenager. (Middle School Reader)

Ask the Passengers by A.S. King - Imagining that she is sending love to passengers in airplanes flying overhead, Astrid Jones, a teen from a small town torn by gossip and narrow-mindedness, struggles with her family's dysfunction and hides her love for another girl. (High School Reader)

Beyond Magenta: Transgender Teens Speak Out by Susan Kuklin - An honest look at the lives, loves and struggles of transgender teens. (High School Reader; also available as an e-book)

Two Boys Kissing by David Levithan - A chorus of men who died of AIDS observes and yearns to help a cross-section of today's gay teens who navigate new love, long-term relationships, coming out, self-acceptance, and more in a society that has changed in many ways. (High School Reader; also available as an e-book)

Marco Impossible by Hannah Moskowitz - Two best friends attempt to break into the high school prom so that one of them can confess his love for the adorable bass player of the prom band. (Middle School Reader)

I'll Give You the Sun by Jandy Nelson - A story of first love and family loss follows the estrangement between daredevil Jude and her loner twin brother, Noah, as a result of a mysterious event that is brought to light by a beautiful, broken boy and a new mentor. (High School Reader; also available as an e-book)

Lies My Girlfriend Told Me by Julie Anne Peters - When her girlfriend dies suddenly at age 17, Colorado teenager Alix struggles with grief as painful secrets are revealed. (High School Reader)

Gracefully Grayson by Ami Polonsky - Hiding the truth about her awareness that she is a girl trapped inside a male body, Grayson finds new strength to embrace her true identity from an unexpected friendship and a supportive teacher.(Middle School Reader)

Tomboy by Liz Prince - Eschewing female stereotypes throughout her early years and failing to gain acceptance on the boys' baseball team, Liz learns to embrace her own views on gender as she comes of age, in an anecdotal graphic novel memoir. (High School Reader)

Boyfriends with Girlfriends by Alex Sanchez - When Lance begins to date Sergio, who's bisexual, he's not sure that it'll work out, and when his best friend Allie, who has a boyfriend, meets Sergio's lesbian friend, she has unexpected feelings which she struggles to understand. (High School Reader)

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Science Fiction Books for Teens

Here are some Science Fiction books for middle school and high school readers available at the Warren Township Library in the Somerset County Library system. Visit the Warren Township Library or other Somerset County Library (SCLS) branches, or visit the online catalog, to reserve a book.

Looking for other Suggested Reads? Check out our Tween Reads and Teen Books with Books for Gamers and Steam Punk books.

Across the Universe by Beth Revis - Teenage Amy, a cryogenically frozen passenger on the spaceship Godspeed, wakes up to discover that someone may have tried to murder her. (for High School readers; also available on CD)

Beta by Rachel Cohn - On a futuristic island paradise where humans are served by enslaved clones, a 16-year-old clone named Elysia seeks her own freedom. (for High School readers)

BZRK by Michael Grant - In the near future, the conjoined Armstrong twins, under the guise of the Armstrong Fancy Gifts Corporation, plot to create their own version of utopia using nanobots, while a guerrilla group known as BZRK develops a DNA-based "biot" that can stop bots, but at risk of the host's brain. (for High School readers)

The Reluctant Assassin by Eoin Colfer - In Victorian London, Albert Garrick, an assassin-for-hire,

and his reluctant teenage apprentice, Riley, are transported via wormhole to modern London, where Riley teams up with a young FBI agent to stop Garrick from returning to his own time and using newly acquired scientific knowledge and power to change the world forever.  (for Middle School readers; also available on CD)

Feed by M.T. Anderson - In a future where most people have computer implants in their heads to control their environment, a boy meets an unusual girl in serious trouble. (for High School readers; also available in ebook format)

The 5th Wave by Rick Yancey - Cassie Sullivan, the survivor of an alien invasion, must rescue her young brother from the enemy with help from a boy who may be one of them. (for High School readers; also available in ebook format)

iBoy by Kevin Brooks - 16-year-old Tom Harvey was an ordinary Londoner until an attack caused fragments of an iPhone to be embedded in his brain, giving him incredible knowledge and power. But using that power could have deadly consequences. (for High School readers)

Insignia by S.J. Kincaid - Tom, a 14-year-old genius at virtual reality games, is recruited by the United States Military to begin training at the Pentagon Spire as a Combatant in World War III, controlling the mechanized drones that do the actual fighting off planet. (for Middle School and High School readers)

Life As We Knew It by Beth Pfeffer - Through journal entries, 16-year-old Miranda describes her

family's struggle to survive after a meteor hits the moon, causing worldwide tsunamis, earthquakes and volcanic eruptions. (for Middle School and High School readers; also available in ebook format)

The Obsidian Blade by Pete Hautman - After 13-year-old Tucker Feye's parents disappear, he suspects that the strange disks of shimmering air that he keeps seeing are somehow involved. When he steps inside one, he is whisked on a time-twisting journey trailed by a shadowy sect of priests and haunted by ghostlike figures. (for Middle School and High School readers; also available in ebook format)

Pathfinder by Orson Scott Card - 13-year-old Rigg has a secret ability to see the paths of others' pasts, but revelations after his father's death set him on a dangerous quest that brings new threats from those who would either control his destiny or kill him. (for Middle School and High School readers)

Steelheart by Brandon Sanderson - At age 8, David watched as his father was killed by an Epic, a human with superhuman powers, and now, 10 years later, he joins the Reckoners -- the only people who are trying to kill the Epics and end their tyranny. (for Middle School and High School readers; also available in ebook format)

Try some of these Sci Fi books from these classic authors:
Douglas Adams
Isaac Asimov
Ray Bradbury
Arthur C. Clarke
Michael Crighton
Philip K. Dick
Robert A. Heinlein
Frank Herbert