Lola and the Boy Next Door by Stephanie Perkins ( 2012 YALSA Best Fiction for Young Adults): Lola is a one-of-a-kind girl who never wears the same outfit twice.I tried to stick to books where the parents seemed like more fully-formed characters in the story, as opposed to purely background players. Read on for our guide to main characters in YA novels with LGBTQ parents: This list is by no means comprehensive and did take the full force of my fellow Hub bloggers to help me put together. So where are the LGBTQ parents in our YA books? With over 7 million LGBTQ parents that have school-aged children in the United States, it’s a question I hope more people will be asking our YA literature community soon, because right now there are too few titles out there representing these families. Parents are pretty much the anchors of your universe, so seeing these relationships and familial conflicts play out in a YA novel is necessary, needed, and in no way restricted to families with heterosexual parents.
Your parents (or lack their of) and the struggle to come to terms with their flaws is a major part of growing up. Courtesy of Flickr user lewishamdreamerįamily relationships are a huge part of young adult literature because of what an important part they are to teens’ lives. Author Malindo Lo does an amazing job of putting a spotlight on the issue by creating a yearly list of published LGBT YA titles and The Hub’s own Molly Wetta put together an impressive guide last year of YA novels with LGBTQ characters. This building conversation and one Stephanie Perkins book later left me wondering where the LGBTQ parents were hiding in the YA world.
A much-needed discussion about the representation of the LGBTQ community is growing in the YA world.
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