Teen Queer Reads / 1st Wednesdays / 6PM
Teen Queer Reads
A Monthly Book Club for Queer & Allied Youth.
(ages 12-18)
The first Wednesday of each month from 6:00 to 7:30 PM in the SAL Room.
Queer Reads is an LGBTQ-friendly book club for kids 12-18. It’s a safe place to share thoughts around books we are reading and to talk about ideas and issues.
Please stop by the youth desk for a copy of this months book.
January Discussion Book and Date:
Wynd: The Flight of the Prince
by James Tynion iv
Wednesday, January 8th
TO FIND YOUR HOME, FIRST YOU HAVE TO FIND YOURSELF
In a world where magical heritage is punishable by death, a young boy named Wynd must hide his true identity – and pointy ears – from everyone in Pipetown, even if it means he’ll never have the normal life he wants. But when his secret is threatened, Wynd is forced to leave his home behind to embark on a dangerous quest that will put him at the heart of a royal conspiracy beyond imagination. Now on the run with the boy of his dreams, his best friend Oakley, and a literal prince, Wynd will have to embrace the magic within himself if he wants to save them from the shocking dangers that await!
The team of award-winning superstars James Tynion IV (Something is Killing the Children, Batman) and Michael Dialynas (Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles) present the first graphic novel in an all-new fantasy epic about the power that lies inside each of us.
February Discussion Book and Date:
sir callie and the champions of helston
by
Wednesday, February 5th:
In a magical medieval world filled with dragons, shape-shifters, and witches, a twelve-year-old nonbinary hopeful knight battles for the
heart of their kingdom. A thrilling middle-grade series opener that explores identity and gender amid sword fights and magic, and proves anyone can be a hero.
When their ex-hero dad is summoned back to the royal capital of Helston
to train a hopeless crown prince, Callie lunges at the opportunity to finally
prove themself worthy to the kingdom’s “great and powerful.” Except the
intolerant great and powerful look at nonbinary Callie and only see girl. But
Callie has always known exactly what they want to be, and they’re not
about to let anything stand in their way.
Trapped in Helston’s rigid hierarchy where girls learn magic and boys train
as knights, Callie discovers they aren’t alone—there’s Elowen, the
chancellor’s brilliant daughter, whose unparalleled power is being stifled;
Edwyn, Elowen’s twin brother desperate to win his father’s approval; and
Willow, the crown prince who was never meant to be king.
In this start to an epic series packed with action, humor, and heart, Callie
and their new friends quickly find themselves embedded in an ancient war
—and their only hope to defeat the threats outside the kingdom lies in first
defeating the bigotry within.