The 2013 Rainbow list selects books for youth, aged birth through 18 years old, that speak to the GLBTQ rights and lives.  Sponsored by ALA’s GLBT Round Table and Social Responsibilities Round Table, the list includes a top ten (which I have listed first) and has a total of 49 books from 31 publishers.   All of the books were published between July 2011 and December 2012.

This is a marvelous list for librarians to ensure that they are forming an inclusive collection for their communities:

 

TOP TEN

   

Adaptation by Malinda Lo

Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe by Benjamin Alire Saenz

Ask the Passengers by A. S. King

  

Beautiful Music for Ugly Children by Kristin Cronn-Mills

Chulito by Charles Rice-Gonzalez

Drama by Raina Telgemeier

   

The Letter Q: Queer Writers’ Notes to Their Younger Selves edited by Sarah Moon

The Miseducation of Cameron Post by Emily M. Danforth

The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller

Starting from Here by Lisa Jenn Bigelow

 

RAINBOW LIST

  

37 Things I Love (in No Particular Order) by Kekla Magoon

Avengers: the Children’s Crusade by Allan Heinberg

Batwoman, vol. 1: Hydrology by J. H. Williams III and W. Haden Blackman

  

Between You & Me by Marissa Calin

Bitterblue by Kristin Cashore

Boys of Summer by Steve Berman

   

The Difference Between You and Me by Madeleine George

Dirty One by Michael Graves

Don’t Let Me Go by J. H. Trumble

  

Gone, Gone, Gone by Hannah Moskowitz

Happy Families by Tanita S. Davis

If I Told You So by Timothy Woodward

   

It’s Our Prom (So Deal with It) by Julie Ann Peters

Kevin Keller by Dan Parent

Kiss the Morning Star by Elissa Janine Hoole

Lola and the Boy Next Door by Stephanie Perkins

   

Mariposa Gown by Rigoberto Gonzalez

My Mixed-Up Berry Blue Summer by Jennifer Gennari

My Two Moms: Lessons of Love, Strength and What makes a Family by Zach Walls with Bruce Littlefield

  

October Mourning: A Song for Matthew Shepard by Leslea Newman

OMG Queer edited by Kathleen Radclyffe

One in Every Crowd by Ivan E. Coyote

  

Personal Effects by E. M. Kokie

Roving Pack by Sassafras Lowrey

See You at Harry’s by Jo Knowles

  

Silhouette of a Sparrow by Molly Beth Griffin

Sparks: the Epic, Completely True Blue, (Almost) Holy Quest of Debbie by S. J. Adams

Street Dreams by Tama Wise

  

Tessa Masterson Will Go to Prom by Emily Franklin and Brendan Halpin

The Thunder in His Head by Gene Gant

Tilt by Ellen Hopkins

  

Wandering Son, Volume 2 by Shimura Takako

Wandering Son, Volume 3 by Shimura Takako

Way to Go by Tom Ryan

  

When We Were Outlaws: A Memoir of Love & Revolution by Jeanne Cordova

Willie and Uncle Bill by Amy Schwartz

The Winter Garden and Other Stories by Hayden Thorne