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True Colors – Pride Reads

For the third week of Summer Reading Program 2025: Color Our World, find pride in whatever color of the rainbow you want! Check out these titles to find pride in being your true self.

Harris County Public Library

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  • ADULT - Lavender House, 1952 : the family seat of recently deceased matriarch Irene Lamontaine, head of the famous Lamontaine soap empire. Irene's recipes for her signature scents are a well guarded secret but it's not the only one behind these…
    Book, 2022New York, NY : Forge, [2022] — Rosen
  • ADULT - Driving home from a roadside diner, Denver witnesses a UFO explode directly over his tiny town of Muddy Gap. When he questions his neighbors, it appears that Denver is the only person to have seen anything - or to care that the residents'…
    Book, 2024London : Angry Robot, 2024. — Hess
  • ADULT - The narrator, Jeanette, cuts her teeth on the knowledge that she is one of God's elect, but as this budding evangelical comes of age, and comes to terms with her preference for her own sex, the peculiar balance of her God-fearing household…
    Book, 1987New York, N.Y. : Atlantic Monthly Press, 1987. — F Win
  • YOUNG ADULT - Told in two voices, Pony, who is concealing his transgender identity at his new Texas high school, and Georgia, a cisgender cheerleader counting the days until she graduates, develop a complicated relationship.
    Book, 2020New York, NY : HarperTeen, [2020] — MacSmi
  • YOUNG ADULT - Felix and his new friends, including his crush Aero, turn to Felix's Grandma Aggie and the witches of Dorset Harbor to help them find a group of missing teenagers and combat the dark magic that is creeping into town.
    Book, 2022Chicago, Illinois : Duet of Interlude Press, [2022] — Cook
  • YOUNG ADULT - Michael is a mixed-race gay teen growing up in London. All his life, he's navigated what it means to be Greek-Cypriot and Jamaican-but never quite feeling Greek or Black enough. As he gets older, Michael's coming out is only the start…
    Book, 2020[New York] : Balzar + Bray, an imprint of HarpercollinsPublishers 2020. — Atta
  • JUVENILE - After a terrible political coup usurps their noble house, Hawke and Grayson flee to stay alive and assume new identities, Hanna and Grayce. Desperation and chance lead them to the Communion of Blue, an order of magical women who spin the…
    Graphic Novel, 2020New York : Little, Brown and Company, 2020. — Smith
  • JUVENILE - Inspired by the author's own little boy, the main character likes princesses, fairies and things "not for boys." He soon learns (through the support of his dad) that everyone has a shadow that they sometimes feel they need to hide.
    Picture Book, 2020Dandenong South, VIC : Larrikin House, 2020. — Stuart
  • Red

    a Crayon's Story

    Hall, Michael, 1954-
    JUVENILE - Red has a bright red label, but he is, in fact, blue. His teacher tries to help him be red (let's draw strawberries!), his mother tries to help him be red by sending him out on a playdate with a yellow classmate (go draw a nice orange!),…
    Picture Book, 2015New York, NY : Greenwillow Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2015] — Hall