#WeHaveDiverseBooks

New & favorite diverse booksrecommended by Mary Ann Scheuer

BUSD Libraries, October 2014

Middle Grade Fiction (ages 9-12)

Serafina’s Promise, by Ann E. Burg

The Crossover, by Kwame Alexander

The Blossoming Universe of Violet Diamond, by Brenda Woods

P.S. Be Eleven, by Rita Williams Garcia

Kinda Like Brothers, by Coe Booth

Dash, by Kirby Larson

El Deafo, by Cece Bell

Sugar, by Jewell Parker Rhodes

Counting by 7s, by Holly Goldberg Sloan

Pickle, by Kim Baker

Gaby Lost and Found, by Angela Cervantes

Zombie Baseball Beatdown, by Paolo Bacigalupi

Better Nate Than Ever, by Tim Federle

Zane and the Hurricane -- & -- The Ninth Ward

The Red Pencil, by Andrea Davis Pinkney

My Basmati Bat Mitzvah, by Paula Freedman

Dancing Home -- & -- Love, Amalia, both by Alma Flor Ada

Confetti Girl, by Diana Lopez

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Tortilla Sun, by Jennifer Cervantes

Sylvia & Aki -- & -- Separate Is Never Equal

Nonfiction for ages 5-11

Representing a diverse range of voices

Brown Girl Dreaming, by Jacqueline Woodson

Grandfather Gandhi, by Arun Gandhi and Bethany Hegedus

Yes! We Are Latinos, by Alma Flor Ada & F. Isabel Campoy

Little Melba and Her Big Trombone, by

Malcolm Little: The Boy Who Grew Up to Become Malcolm X,

by Ilyasah Shabazi

Twenty-two Cents: The Story of Muhammad Yunus, by Paula Yoo

Barbed Wire Baseball, by Marissa Moss

Colors of the Wind: The Story of Blind Artist and Champion Runner George Mendoza, by JL Powers

Courage Has No Color, by Tanya Lee Stone

Dear Malala, We Stand with You, by by Rosemary McCarney

Picture books

Just a few of the many titles to recommend

The Hula-Hoopin' Queen, by Thelma Godin

King for a Day, by Rukhsana Khan

The Honest to Goodness Truth, by Patricia McKissack

Firebird, by Misty Copeland & Christopher Myers

Each Kindness, by Jacqueline Woodson

A Dance Like Starlight, by Kristy Dempsey

Deep in the Sahara, by Kelly Cunnane and Hoda Hadadi

Made by Raffi, by Craig Pomranz

All Different Now, by Angela Johnson

Morris Micklewhite and the Tangerine Dress, by Christine Baldacchino

Green Is a Chile Pepper: A Book of Colors, by Roseanne Thong

Migrant, by Jose Manuel Mateo

Resources● SLJ’s recent list of new culturally diverse books

● SLJ: resources for finding Latino kid lit

● The Brown Bookshelf

● CCBC Multicultural Literature resourceso eg: booklist for picture books featuring interracial families