FORTHCOMING
THE SUMMER LOVE STRATEGY (2024), in which two best friends, Hayley (a cis girl) and Talia (a trans girl), team up to help each other find summer love by emulating romcoms, and fall for each other instead. A fourth untitled standalone YA will release in 2025.
Add THE SUMMER LOVE STRATEGY on Goodreads
Add Untitled 2025 YA on Goodreads
OUT NOW
ARDEN GREY
Amulet Books
4/26/2022
An insightful, raw YA novel about a young photographer navigating toxic relationships and how they influence her identity.
Sixteen-year-old Arden Grey is struggling. Her mother has left their family, her father and her younger brother won’t talk about it, and a classmate, Tanner, keeps harassing her about her sexuality—which isn’t even public. (She knows she likes girls romantically, but she thinks she might be asexual.) At least she’s got her love of film photography and her best and only friend Jamie to help her cope. Then Jamie, who is trans, starts dating Caroline, and suddenly he isn’t so reliable. Arden’s insecurity about their friendship grows. She starts to wonder if she’s jealous or if Jamie’s relationship with Caroline is somehow unhealthy—and it makes her reconsider how much of her relationship with her absent mom wasn’t okay, too. Filled with big emotions, first loves, and characters navigating toxic relationships, Ray Stoeve’s honest and nuanced novel is about finding your place in the world and seeking out the love and community that you deserve.
PREORDER HERE
Add ARDEN GREY on Goodreads!
BETWEEN PERFECT AND REAL
Amulet Books
April 27, 2021
A moving YA debut about a trans boy finding his voice—and himself
Dean Foster knows he’s a trans guy. He’s watched enough YouTube videos and done enough questioning to be sure. But everyone at his high school thinks he’s a lesbian—including his girlfriend Zoe, and his theater director, who just cast him as a “nontraditional” Romeo. He wonders if maybe it would be easier to wait until college to come out. But as he plays Romeo every day in rehearsals, Dean realizes he wants everyone to see him as he really is now––not just on the stage, but everywhere in his life. Dean knows what he needs to do. Can playing a role help Dean be his true self?
Preorder the BPAR paperback (out 3/15/22)
Buy the hardcover or ebook
Buy the BPAR audiobook
Add BETWEEN PERFECT AND REAL on Goodreads!
Parker Outside the Box
TAKE THE MIC: FICTIONAL STORIES OF EVERYDAY RESISTANCE
Edited by Bethany C. Morrow.
Scholastic/Arthur A. Levine Books, 2019.
This young adult anthology features fictional stories about all the ways teens resist oppression in big and small ways, every day. My story is about Parker, a nonbinary teen who becomes a mentor to a trans child, and learns how to stand up for themself in the process.
Add Take the Mic on Goodreads!
Order via: IndieBound, Goodreads
RAY STOEVE 