BooksYALove » Diverse Books
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Katy Manck, MLS Librarian-at-large & independent book reviewer, recommends books that feature diverse narratives and highlight different cultures. BooksYALove is a group of YA librarians, writers, and bloggers reading from the heart of Texas!
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Creative people caged like birds, our overheating planet – where is justice? Fleeing Cuba when their massive wood sculptures protesting the imprisonment of artists are revealed by a hurricane in 2018, Soleida is separated from her parents – the sixteen year old animal rescuer must continue out into the world, alone. Yet another wildfire consumes ..read more
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1w ago
Thirty days till the Procedure – a successful separation or death sentence for them both? The gigantic experiment that killed his scientists father fused a fourth-dimensional alien into Felix at age three, leaving his body contorted and hyperintelligent Zyx permanently part of his brain. Zyx is a secret from everyone except Felix’s older sister Beatrix ..read more
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2w ago
Young Voices video contest! At Veracity News! She just needs the right story to tell… Growing up in Umbrella House with her grandmother, 12-year-old Roxy knows all about its origins as an abandoned building brought back to life by creative people who fought for the right to live there. She and her best friend Scout ..read more
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2w ago
What’s in our future? Who gets to decide? Can we change who gets to decide? She hears a dead friend singing in the park – who selected that voice-mod to replace their own, and why? Meeting him among the tethers holding together her small space city was electrifying – until she sensed one disintegrating. Teens ..read more
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2w ago
Quick, quick! How many women poets can you name? Oh, there are so many more than that! “There is a poem / scratched onto the walls of my throat / no one has heard it / but it is there” writes Kai Cheng Thorn (pg. 31) in this wonderful anthology of 100 short poems by ..read more
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3w ago
“I want to put down on paper the feeling of fresh possibilities” as Spring begins Grant Snider’s collection of poems for kids, portrayed in comics panels. Some poems take two pages to unfold, like “How To Stop the Spin of the Earth,” some are a single panel with few words, most use several panels on ..read more
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3w ago
Banned from the tabletop game he plays with his buddies.Stay home or master the game and change their minds? To show Chris she’s a great girlfriend, Hollis is determined to learn how to play Secrets & Sorcery RPG. After an icky experience at their local games shop, the Kentucky teen spots a notice that new ..read more
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3w ago
Clever and powerful Sun Wukong isn’t content to be king over the monkeys – he wants to live forever! After traveling far to learn the secret, he rejects the master’s teachings of humility, instead stealing immortal peaches and magical weapons. The great gods’ efforts to punish the now-indestructible Monkey King lead him to encounter the ..read more
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3w ago
Mama the actress died, then Papa, now her guardian too – where will Lucy go? A remote lighthouse on a tiny island in vast Lake Superior!? Living with a family she’s never met? Thankfully, they’re also of Ojibwe and Acadian heritage… So 11-year-old Lucy goes to the Martin family in 1912, an only child in ..read more
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3w ago
Soon to be married, then tragedy, death! Must she die also? Changes, changes! In 1857 India, British occupiers push Indian men to join their military as Sepoy brigades, tax people so much that starvation is increasing, and want to change devoutly followed religious traditions, leading to widespread rioting. When Meera turns 13 in a few ..read more