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This Is Our Rainbow: 16 Stories of Her, Him, Them, and Us by Mark Oshiro, Katherine Locke, Claribel A. Ortega, Ashley Herring Blake, Nicole Melleby, Alex Gino, Aisa Salazar, Mariama J. Lockington, Shing Yin Khor, AJ Sass, Lisa Bunker, Lisa Jenn Bigelow, Marieke Nijkamp, Justina Ireland, Eric Bell, Molly Knox Ostertag
4.0
emotional hopeful inspiring lighthearted reflective tense medium-paced

This anthology contained a number of sweet stories that are sure to inspire LGBT+ middle schoolers to be true to themselves and persevere against the obstacles in their way. However, while each of the characters in this book are unique, the variety of plots was somewhat of a disappointment to me. Nearly all of the stories were set in the modern, "real" world and about a gay character dealing with their first crush. Not that those stories aren't important, especially for an LGBT+ middle school audience, but I was hoping for more trans narratives than what was ultimately presented. Still, I felt that each of these stories were written well and with emotion young readers are sure to respond and relate too. Their generation is lucky to have these rainbows of stories to help them find their way. 

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