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Publisher
Cleis Press
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
In recent years, the world has been saturated by endless blogs, articles, and books devoted to the subject of LGBTQ+ parenting. On the flip side, finding stories written by the children of LGBTQ+ parents is akin to searching for a needle in a haystack. Now that the world is more accepting than ever of non-traditional families, it's time to create a literary space for this not-so-unique, shared, but completely individual experience. In Raised by Unicorns:...
Author
Series
Jane Lawless mysteries volume 21
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
"Although Eric and Andrew have been trying to keep up a semblance of normal life, they know their thirteen-year-old son Jack has been having a tough time of it since they separated. They've been concerned, but now they're terrified--Jack has run away from home. It happened once before, just after the separation, but then it was only a matter of hours before Eric found him. This time, Jack disappeared with his cousin, and the two of them haven't been...
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
When her mother goes on a business trip, a little girl, who loves to sit between Mama and Mommy at the table, misses her a lot and feels empty until Mommy finally comes home, filling the void with love.
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"In this unputdownable story of nature, nurture, and coming to terms with one's true inheritance, the author, introducing her deeply dysfunctional yet fiercely loving family that is anything but "normal," reveals how a colorful cast of characters were thrown together by chance and DNA"--
10) Beginners
Publisher
Focus Features
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
A young man is rocked by two announcements from his elderly father: that he has terminal cancer, and that he has a young male lover.
Author
Publisher
Mango Media
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"An Indispensable Toolset for Same-Sex Parenthood. First published in 2016 and winner of four literary awards.Now updated and packed with valuable information and more powerful stories of same-sex parents achieving and navigating parenthood. Yes, you do have options. Same-sex couples (gay dads, lesbian moms, or other queer couples) are faced with many different options when choosing to have a family that includes beautiful children. In Journey to...
Author
Publisher
Owlkids Books
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"Princess Pru has two loving dads, an ostrich named Orville, and an ogre-tastic best friend named Oggy. Oggy and Pru spend their days playing games, having adventures, and getting spoiled by shopkeepers. Then, every evening, Oggy goes home and does whatever he wants. Pru returns to the palace where she has to finish her vegetables, tidy her playroom, and go to bed on time. When her royal dads tell her she can't take Orville for a gallop until she...
13) Moose
Author
Publisher
Conundrum
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Joe is a shy high school student who is relentlessly bullied, and must find comfort in the natural world. Soon however, the story twists into a tale of power and fear complete with visual symbolism and beautiful cartooning. The morally ambiguous ending will keep you thinking long after you close the covers.
14) Give or take
Publisher
Breaking Glass Pictures
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
A man's estranged father unexpectedly dies, so he goes home to Cape Cod and prepares the house for sale while sharing it with his father's temperamental live-in boyfriend. Grieving, they circle each other, butt heads, and negotiate how to remember the different man they both loved, and the significance of what he left behind.
Author
Publisher
Dey St., an imprint of William Morrow
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"The youngest of thirteen children in a devout Catholic family, Tina Alexis Allen grew up in 1980s suburban Maryland in a house ruled by her stern father, Sir John, an imposing, British-born authoritarian who had been knighted by the Pope. Sir John supported his large family running a successful travel agency that specialized in religious tours to the Holy Land and the Vatican for pious Catholics. But his daughter, Tina, was no sweet and innocent...
Author
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"Gay Fathers, Twin Sons follows the story of Andrew from the United States and Elad from Israel, who married in Canada where same-sex marriage was permitted, and details their struggle to then immigrate back to the United States with their biological twin sons"--
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