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As winter winds give way to spring blossoms, new books are flowering on shelves. The season’s latest literature welcomes readers into pages blooming with thrilling adventures, touching rom-coms and thought-provoking social commentary.

"This was an incredibly powerful sentiment to see in a children’s book and a major advancement for queer representation in literature." On International Non-Binary People's Day, Aimee Dickinson discusses the evolution of LGBT+ characters in Rick Riordan's work.

A few weeks before I started at middle school at Rio Norte Jr. High, I read a book called The Lightning Thief. My brother had won it from the Summer Reading Challenge at Barnes & Noble, but my mother, who was an elementary school teacher and who had heard good things about the book, encouraged me to read it, too. At first, I had refused. It seemed like a book for boys. It’s funny, in retrospect. I can’t imagine making that sort of distinction today. But I was twelve years old. I clung to t...