Transgender & Non-Binary Middle Grade Fiction

Middle Grade books featuring Trans & Non-Binary characters.

Updated June 14, 2023
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Both can be true.
Machias, Jules
Stand-alone player
A new and radically revised version of Erdrichs 1998 novel, which the New York Times described as "a fiercely imagined tale of love and loss, a story that manages to transform tragedy into comic redemption, sorrow into heroic survival."
Moonflower.
Callender, Kacen.
Stand-alone player
Rabbit chase / [graphic novel]
LaPensee, Elizabeth
Paper Book
Anishinaabe culture and storytelling meet Alice in Wonderland in this coming-of-age graphic novel that explores Indigenous and gender issues through a fresh yet familiar looking glass. Aimée, a non-binary Anishinaabe middle-schooler, is on a class trip to offer gifts to ...
The witch boy. [graphic novel]
Ostertag, Molly.
Paper Book
From the illustrator of the web comic Strong Female Protagonist comes a debut middle-grade graphic novel about family, identity, courage -- and magic.In thirteen-year-old Aster's family, all the girls are raised to be witches, while boys grow up to be shapeshifters. Anyone who dares cross...
Melissa.
Gino, Alex
Paper Book
BE WHO YOU ARE. When people look at Melissa, they think they see a boy named George. But she knows she's not a boy. She knows she's a girl. Melissa thinks she'll have to keep this a secret forever. Then her teacher announces that their class play is going to be Charlotte's Web....
Ana on the edge.
Sass, A. J.
Paper Book
When twelve-year-old Ana-Marie Jin, the reigning the U.S. Juvenile Champion in figure skating, learns that they'll be portraying a princess in their new skating program, they're less than thrilled, to say the least. Ana's just not a frilly -- dress kind of girl, after all! Nevertheless, Ana's...
The deep & dark blue. [graphic novel]
Smith, Niki
Paper Book
The Witch Boy meets The Legend of Korra in this breathtaking, epic graphic novel. After a terrible political coup usurps their noble house, Hawke and Grayson flee to stay alive and assume new identities, Hanna and Grayce. Desperation and chance lead them to the...
Gracefully Grayson.
Polonsky, Ami.
Paper Book
Gingkon Sender has been holding onto a secret for what seems like forever: he' is a girl on the inside, stuck in the wrong gender's body. The weight of this secret is crushing, but sharing it would mean facing ridicule, scorn, rejection or worse. Despite the risks, Grayson's true self itches to...
Zenobia July.
Bunker, Lisa
Paper Book
The critically acclaimed author of Felix Yz crafts a bold, heartfelt story about a trans girl solving a cyber mystery and coming into her own. Zenobia July is starting a new life. She used to live in Arizona with her father; now she's in Maine with her aunts. She used to...
Dragon pearl.
Lee, Yoon Ha, 1979-
Paper Book
Rick Riordan Presents Yoon Ha Lee's space opera about thirteen-year-old Min, who comes from a long line of fox spirits. But you'd never know it by looking at her. To keep the family safe, Min's mother insists that none of them use any fox-magic, such as Charm or shape-shifting. They must appear...
Felix Yz.
Bunker, Lisa
Paper Book
"If it wasn't for the fused-with-Zyx thing, I suppose I would just be normal--whatever that means."   When Felix Yz was three years old, a hyperintelligent fourth-dimensional being became fused inside him after one of his father's science experiments went terribly wrong. The...

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