This Is Our Rainbow: 16 Stories of Her, Him, Them, and Us

 Shirley J.             Juvenile Fiction                      16 Stories all with LBGTQ+ themes

This Is Our Rainbow:16 Stories of Her, Him, Them, and Us by multiple authors edited by Katherine Locke and Nicole Melleby   336 pages

All of the stories in this book deal with themes of being bullied, or feeling insecure in the feelings they are having for same sex love interests or for being attracted to both male and female, basically for being different and happy in their place in the world.  It touches on lesbian, gay, binary, transgender middle-schoolers finding their way to who they really are.   The stories are a collection of 16 different writers telling the reader that whoever you are you are just who you are supposed to be and that feelings for another person whatever their sexual code is okay and not to be ashamed of.   The book is written for middle-schoolers and the stories relate from that place.  There are text and graphic stories and a goodly mix is to be found here.  These stories might be just what someone needs to hear at the age they are coming to grips with a whole lot of confusion and conflicting thoughts.  Well done.  I would recommend this to middle-schoolers on up.