<div dir="auto">You Should See Me In A Crown - Leah Johnson, it’s an Lincoln Award winner.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Last Night At The Telegraph Club - Malinda Lo (another Lincoln winner, may not be incredibly uplifting but I found the history surrounding it interesting)</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Mon, Jun 13, 2022 at 2:16 PM Rasmussen, Megan via AISLE <<a href="mailto:aisle@list.railslibraries.info">aisle@list.railslibraries.info</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204)">





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 difficult topics to get to the hopeful message at the end. <u style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"></u><u style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(31,73,125)">If you’re looking for something that has LGBTQ+ characters that is also a bit lighter (but still rich), I recommend Becky Albertalli’s work. She wrote
<i style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Simon Vs. The Homo Sapiens Agenda</i>, a book that deals with some heavy topics but with humor and love. She has quite a few other works that are written with positivity, hope, and the experience of someone who has clinically worked with LGBTQ+ kids (she
 was a clinical psychologist). She’s also co-written with Adam Silvera. <u style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"></u><u style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><b><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(31,78,121)">Megan Rasmussen (she/her)</span></b><span style="font-size:11pt;line-height:150%;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(31,73,125)"><u style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"></u><u style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"></u></span></p>
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<i style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">The First to Die at the End<u style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"></u><u style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"></u></i></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"> AISLE <<a href="mailto:aisle-bounces@list.railslibraries.info" target="_blank" style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">aisle-bounces@list.railslibraries.info</a>>
<b style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">On Behalf Of </b>Dawn Scuderi via AISLE<br>
<b style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Sent:</b> Monday, June 13, 2022 12:34 PM<br>
<b style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">To:</b> AISLE-Share: Association of Illinois School Library Educators discussion list <<a href="mailto:aisle@list.railslibraries.info" target="_blank" style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">aisle@list.railslibraries.info</a>><br>
<b style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Cc:</b> Dawn Scuderi <<a href="mailto:scuderi.dawn@gmail.com" target="_blank" style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">scuderi.dawn@gmail.com</a>><br>
<b style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Subject:</b> Re: [aisle] YA book diverse, ideally LGBRQ+, hopeful<u style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"></u><u style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">On Mon, Jun 13, 2022 at 11:15 AM Lala Lala via AISLE <<a href="mailto:aisle@list.railslibraries.info" target="_blank">aisle@list.railslibraries.info</a>> wrote:<u></u><u></u></p>
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