Sloane Kinsley
Sloane Kinsley writes contemporary LGBTQ+ young adult fiction about identity, family, friendship, first love, and the complicated space between loving someone and agreeing with them. Her stories combine warmth, humor, and emotional honesty while following teenagers through the ordinary—and not-so-ordinary—moments that change who they become.
This Is Our Year Series
Everyone Is Talking About Us follows a newly out sixteen-year-old whose private identity becomes public currency after her school-board-member mother votes to remove an LGBTQ+ novel from her high school library.
The Things We Don’t Say at Dinner is an emotionally honest LGBTQ+ coming-of-age novel about a closeted gay teenager discovering that being loved and being fully known are not always the same thing.
You Can’t Put That in the School Paper follows a nonbinary student journalist who discovers that finding the truth is easier than deciding which truths are theirs to tell.
My Best Friend Thinks I’m Wrong is a funny, heartfelt LGBTQ+ coming-of-age novel about two lifelong best friends discovering that loving someone and agreeing with them are not the same thing.
We Don’t Get to Vote Yet brings the students of Cypress Harbor together as election season forces them to confront friendship, family, power, and what it means to have a voice in a world they’re not yet old enough to vote in.