Day: January 17, 2011

Diversity in YA Fiction

| Tasha

Diversity in YA Fiction is a new project to celebrate all sorts of diversity in teen fiction.  There is both a website and a book tour that features some truly amazing authors! 

The site has monthly lists of new middle grade and young adult releases that include diversity.  If you take a look at January’s list, it is a beautiful visual of diversity in novels.  Just having the covers of the books with so many different colored faces makes a great impact. 

This is definitely a site worth following, filled with books and authors worth reading.  Enjoy!

ALA Rainbow Project

| Tasha

The 2011 Rainbow Project List has been announced.  It features titles that “reflect signifigant gay/lesbian/bisexual/trans-gendered/queer-questioning (glbtq) experience for young people from birth to age 18.”  I haven’t read most of the titles on the list, unfortunately.  Here are the Top Ten:

  

Agell, Charlotte.  The Accidental Adventures of India McAllister.

Eagland, Jane. Wildthorn.

Green, John and David Levithan. Will Grayson, Will Grayson.

  

Horner, Emily. A Love Story Starring My Dead Best Friend.

Ignatow, Amy. The Popularity Papers: Research for the Social Improvement and General Betterment of Lydia Goldblatt and Julie Graham-Chang.

Kemp, Anna. Dogs Don’t Do Ballet.

 

Lowrey, Sassafras. Kicked Out.

McCaughrean, Geraldine. The Death-Defying Pepper Roux.

Sheng, Jeff. Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell.

Various Authors. The Gallup’s Modern Guide to Gay, Lesbian & Transgender Life (Series, 15 titles).