Books for Kids: June is Pride Month

Our book list comes from the Committee of the Rainbow Round Table of the American Library Association. This list contains titles in our Youth Services Collection.

For more information and for additional lists, please visit their website: https://glbtrt.ala.org/rainbowbooks/. We thank the librarians who have taken the time to select these titles each year.

Updated October 17, 2023
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The best bed for me
Cornwall, Gaia
Paper Book
From the creator of Jabari Jumps and Jabari Tries, the tale of a stalling child with a lively imagination--and a passion for animal facts--makes for the best kind of bedtime story. Mama and Mommy would like Sweet Pea to settle into bed, but it's not quite...
Aaron Slater, illustrator
Beaty, Andrea
Paper Book
Aaron Slater loves listening to stories and dreams of one day writing them himself. But when it comes to reading, the letters just look like squiggles to him, and it soon becomes clear he struggles more than his peers. When his teacher asks each child in the class to write a story, Aaron can't...
I love you because I love you
Van, Muon
Paper Book
Author Muợn Thị Văn and Stonewall Book Award-winning artist Jessica Love detail all the big and small reasons why we love the people we do within a call-and-response picture book that features families across the spectrum. "I love you because you tell the best stories...
Moonflower
Callender, Kacen
Paper Book
Kacen Callender, National Book Award winner of King and the Dragonflies, delivers a stunning novel that invites readers into a child's struggles with mental health, and their journey to wholeness. Moon's depression is overwhelming. Therapy doesn't help, and Moon is afraid that their mom...
The lock-eater
Clark, Zack Loran
Paper Book
"Will have readers tumbling through the pages . . . Deeply immersive, full of both heft and humor." -Soman Chainani, New York Times bestselling author of The School for Good and Evil series * "One of those special books that only comes around every so often . . . An...
Different kinds of fruit
Lukoff, Kyle
Paper Book
In this funny and hugely heartfelt novel from the Newbery Honor-winning author of Too Bright to See, a sixth-grader's life is turned upside down when she learns her dad is trans Annabelle Blake fully expects this school year to be the same as every other- same teachers,...
The science of being angry
Melleby, Nicole
Paper Book
From the acclaimed author of Hurricane Season, an unforgettable story about what makes a family, for fans of Hazel's Theory of Evolution and Ivy Aberdeen's Letter to the World.   Eleven-year-old Joey is angry...
You only live once, David Bravo
Oshiro, Mark
Paper Book
From Mark Oshiro, award-winning author of The Insiders, this time-bending adventure is perfect for fans of Sal and Gabi Break the Universe and When You Reach Me. A Publishers Weekly Best Book of the Year * An ALA Rainbow Book List Top 10 Selection Middle school is the worst,...

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