September is Bisexual Visibility Month!

Jessi

Did you know September is Bisexual Visibility Month? It is a celebration of bisexual identity, community, and relationships. September 23rd is officially Bisexual Visibility Day. In honor of this special observance, check out these teen novels with bi main characters. 

  1. Alondra by Gina Femia: Seventeen-year-old Alonda finds friendship, fame, and love on the streets of Coney Island when she befriends a group of teen wrestlers. 
  2. Forever is Now by Mariama Lockington: When sixteen-year-old Sadie, a Black bisexual recluse, develops agoraphobia the summer before her junior year, she relies on her best friend, family, and therapist to overcome her fears.
  3. Going Bicoastal by Dahlia Adler: Told in alternating timelines, Jewish seventeen-year-old Natalya spends one summer in New York with her dad, trying to muster the courage to talk to her girl crush, and the other in Los Angeles with her estranged mom, going for a guy she never saw coming.
  4. I Kissed Shara Wheeler by Casey McQuiston: After seventeen-year-olds Chloe and Shara, Chloe's rival for valedictorian, kiss, Shara vanishes leaving Chloe and two boys, who are also enamored with Shara, to follow the trail of clues she left behind, but during the search, Chloe starts to suspect there might be more to Shara and her small Alabama town than she thought.
  5. Navigating With You by Jeremy Whitley (graphic novel): When new students Neesha Sparks and Gabby Graciana discover they like the same obscure manga series, they become friends and set out on a mission to find the remaining books in the series.
  6. She is a Haunting by Trang Thanh Tran: When Jade Nguyen arrives in Vietnam for a visit with her estranged father, she has one goal: survive five weeks pretending to be a happy family in the French colonial house Ba is restoring. She's always lied to fit in, so if she's straight enough, Vietnamese enough, American enough, she can get out with the college money he promised. But the house has other plans. Night after night, Jade wakes up paralyzed. The walls exude a thrumming sound while bugs leave their legs and feelers in places they don't belong. She finds curious traces of her ancestors in the gardens they once tended. And at night Jade can't ignore the ghost of the beautiful bride who leaves cryptic warnings: Don't eat. Neither Ba nor her sweet sister Lily believe that there is anything strange happening. With help from a delinquent girl, Jade will prove this house--the home they have always wanted--will not rest until it destroys them. Maybe, this time, she can keep her family together. As she roots out the house's rot, she must also face the truth of who she is and who she must become to save them all. 
  7. The Girls I've Been by Tess Sharpe: When seventeen-year-old Nora O'Malley, the daughter of a con artist, is taken hostage in a bank heist, every secret she is keeping close begins to unravel.
  8. The No-Girlfriend Rule by Christen Randall: When her boyfriend excludes her from participating in a role-playing game, high school senior Hollie joins an all-girls group where an in-game romance has the potential to be more than just pretend.
  9. The Other Merlin by Robyn Schneider: Welcome to the great kingdom of Camelot! Prince Arthur’s a depressed botanist who would rather marry a library than a princess, Lancelot’s been demoted to castle guard after a terrible lie, and Emry Merlin has arrived at the castle disguised as her twin brother since girls can’t practice magic. Life at court is full of scandals, lies, and backstabbing courtiers, so what’s a casually bisexual teen wizard masquerading as a boy to do? Other than fall for the handsome prince, stir up trouble with the foppish Lord Gawain, and offend the prissy Princess Guinevere. When the truth comes out with disastrous consequences, Emry has to decide whether she'll risk everything for the boy she loves, or give up her potential to become the greatest wizard Camelot has ever known.
  10. Things We Couldn't Say by Jay Coles: Just as Gio is getting his life together, he must deal with the return of his mother, who abandoned the family years ago, while dealing with his crush on a basketball player who is giving him mixed signals.

 

This blog post reflects the opinions of the author and does not necessarily represent the views of Brooklyn Public Library.

 



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