What better way to celebrate Pride Month this June than checking out books that tell the stories of the struggles and triumphs of the LGBTQ community?
The team at NECN along with Michelle Techler, a librarian at the Cary Memorial Library in Lexington, Massachusetts offered their suggestions for what to read to celebrate Pride Month this year.
Here are the recommendations from Techler:
- "Sewing the Rainbow" by Gayle Pitman
- "King and the Dragonflies" by Kacen Callender
- "Meet Cute Diary" by Emery Lee
And here are the books recommended by the team at NECN:
- "Chosen Ones" by Veronica Roth
- "A Day in the Life of Marlon Bundo" by Jill Twiss
- "Latina Looks Like Me" by Rukia K.
- "Ballpark Mysteries #10: The Rookie Blue Jay" by David A. Kelly
- "Better Luck Next Time" by Julia Claiborne Johnson
- "Pete the Cat: Pete at the Beach" by James Dean and Kimberly Dean
- "How to Catch a Mermaid" by Adam Wallace and illustrated by Andy Elkerton
- "The Forever Summer" by Jamie Brenner
