30 LGBTQ Young Adult Books We Think You Should Read This Spring

LGBTQ young adult books that you need to look out for this spring!

1. Zara Hossain Is Here by Sabina Khan

Scholastic, Tanya Kuriyedath / Via sabina-khan.com

Release date: April 6

When Zara Hossain's tormenter leaves a threatening note in her locker that gets him suspended, his friends retaliate by vandalizing her house with racist graffiti, leading to a violent crime that puts Zara's entire future at risk. Her family has been awaiting their green card approval, in process for almost nine years, and Zara has tried to lay low. Now she must either fight to stay in the only place she's called home, or lose the life she's been living.

Get it from Bookshop, Target, or through your local indie through Indiebound here.

2. The Sky Blues by Robbie Couch

Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, robbiecouch.com

Release date: April 6

Sky Baker has 30 days to ask his crush, Ali, to the prom, and he's going to plan the gayest promposal his small, insular Michigan town has ever seen. But when his plans are leaked by an anonymous hacker in a homophobic (and viral) email blast, his classmates turn his promposal countdown into a mission to expose the person behind the email blast.

Get it from Bookshop, Target, or through your local indie through Indiebound here.

3. The Key to You and Me by Jaye Robin Brown

Harperteen, jayerobinbrown.com

Release date: April 20

Piper is spending the summer training at the barn of a former Olympic horseback rider and trying to get over her ex-girlfriend. Her grandma, whom Piper is staying with, has plans for her too: making Piper face her fear of driving by taking lessons from Kat, a girl in town. While Kat has always suspected that she liked girls, it isn't until she starts lessons with Piper that she truly finds herself falling.

Get it from Bookshop, Target, or through your local indie through Indiebound here.

4. On This Unworthy Scaffold by Heidi Heilig

heidiheilig.com, Greenwillow Books

Release date: April 27

In case you haven't read Book 1, For a Muse of Fire: Jetta's family are shadow players, a traveling troupe who are renowned for their puppets that seem to move without string or stick. But the truth is that Jetta is able to see the souls of the recently departed — and bind them to the puppets with her blood, a practice outlawed since their country was conquered by colonizers. Her skill, while secret, is her family's only hope to earn a spot on the ship to Aquitan, where, rumor has it, the Mad King has a spring that cures his ills.

What it's about: In this final installment of Heilig's stunning series, Jetta's home is spiraling into civil war, there's a deadly necromancer who has wrested control of the country, and Jetta's circle is intent on infiltrating the palace.

Get it from Bookshop, Target, or through your local indie through Indiebound here.

5. Between Perfect and Real by Ray Stoeve

Amulet Books, JP Martin / Via jpmartinmedia.com

Release date: April 27

Dean Foster knows he is a trans guy, but everyone at school thinks he's a lesbian — from his girlfriend, Zoe, to his theater director. He wonders if he should just wait until college to come out, but when he's cast as a "nontraditional" Romeo and starts playing the role every day in rehearsals, he realizes that he wants everyone to see him as he is, always.

Get it from Bookshop, Target, or through your local indie through Indiebound here.

6. Indivisible by Daniel Aleman

F. Angelini / Via danielaleman.com, Little, Brown Books for Young Readers

Release date: May 4

When two ICE agents come asking for Pa, the early fears of Mateo and his sister Sophie — that their parents could be deported — come crashing back to the surface. Mateo returns from school one day to discover that his parents have been taken by immigration officers, and he not only has to take care of Sophie as he waits to learn his parents' fate but also must face questions of his identity in a country that rejects his family.

Get it from Bookshop, Target, or through your local indie through Indiebound here.

7. When You Get the Chance by Robin Stevenson and Tom Ryan

Running Press Kids, robinstevenson.com, goodreads.com

Release date: May 4

Talia and Mark are cousins, but since a fight between their parents years ago, and because they live on opposite coasts, they really haven't seen each other. After their grandfather dies, both end up at the family cottage in Ontario, cleaning it out. As they work, they realize that aside from being cousins and both being queer, the only thing they have in common is that they'd both prefer to be in Toronto. With Mark's sister Paige in tow, the three set off to the city — Mark wanting to have some fun, while Talia desperately wants to see her high school sweetheart Erin — to hopefully find what they're looking for at Toronto Pride.

Get it from Bookshop, Target, or through your local indie through Indiebound here.

8. Meet Cute Diary by Emery Lee