A High Five for Glenn Burke is a middle-grade novel by Phil Bildner, published February 25, 2020, by Farrar, Straus and Giroux, about Silas Wade, who learns about Glenn Burke, a gay, Major League baseball player in the 1970s and begins to accept his own sexual identity.

[1] Sixth-grader Silas Wade takes the first step toward coming out when he gives a presentation in class about a gay baseball player named Glenn Burke.

[2] Silas soon finds himself stuck in a difficult situation and becomes torn between wanting to hide his identity and channeling the courage to embrace it.

[6] Alongside being selected by the Junior Library Guild,[7] A High Five for Glenn Burke received the following accolades: In an interview with Phil Bildner in August 2020, he mentions that he was invited to a school in New Jersey but disinvited "once they learned the book had LGBTQ themes.

[16] In August 2023, The Des Moines Register published an article on a list of banned books in an Iowa school district, which included A High Five for Glenn Burke.