To solve the crisis, the oracle stones are cast, and Kaede and Taisin, two seventeen-year-old girls, are picked to go on a dangerous and unheard-of journey to Tanlili, the city of the Fairy Queen. The people’s survival hangs in the balance. Worse yet, strange and hostile creatures have begun to appear. The sun hasn’t shone in years, and crops are failing. Nature is out of balance in the human world. At the camp, Cameron comes face to face with the cost of denying her true identity.
When she’s eventually outed, her aunt sends her to God’s Promise, a religious conversion camp that is supposed to “cure” her homosexuality. There she falls in love with her best friend, a beautiful cowgirl. Orphaned, Cameron comes to live with her old-fashioned grandmother and ultraconservative aunt Ruth. Their deaths mean they will never learn the truth she eventually comes to-that she’s gay. danforth’s The Miseducation of Cameron Post is a powerful and widely acclaimed YA coming-of-age novel in the tradition of the classic Annie on My Mind.Ĭameron Post feels a mix of guilt and relief when her parents die in a car accident. Set in rural Montana in the early 1990s, emily m. THE MISEDUCATION OF CAMERON POST BY EMILY M. Keep scrolling for a written out list with descriptions for each book!
We hope this list continues to grow each year so let us know which other books you’d like to see featured on this list! We were so inspired by all your responses and decided to compile this list of must-read YA books featuring LGBTQ+ characters. We had an amazing conversation about why LGBTQ+ rep is important, books that prominently feature LGBTQ+ characters, and which YA books have positively affected the LGBTQ+ community. To celebrate pride month we have LOTS of LGBTQ+ reading recommendations for you! A few weeks ago, we asked the community what books they’d recommend using the hashtag #YAPride.