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Diversity in Kid's Literature June 2024 |
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Picture Books and Early Readers
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Chapter Books & Graphic Novels
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Asking for a friend
by Ronnie Riley
Eden Jones is a nonbinary kid who has Social Anxiety Disorder, and when their mother announces she is throwing a birthday party and inviting all their friends they are thrown into a panic--because while Eden's three "friends" are all real kids at school they have almost never actually spoken to any of them.
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A Place to Shine
by Marie Arnold
This touching story, combining both humor and magical realism, follows 10-year-old Sunny Williams and her little brother, Miles, as they discover love, family and the power of music when their beloved Nanna is placed into a care home after developing dementia.
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Noah Frye Gets Crushed
by Maggie Horne
In this cute and queer contemporary comedy about friendship, first crushes, and first kisses, twelve-year-old Noah Frye comes up with a foolproof plan to teach herself how to have a crush on a boy to fit in better with her friends--only to discover she's been looking in the wrong place, and her crush was right beside her all along . . .
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The Spindle of Fate
by Aimee Lim
When Evie Mei discovers that her recently deceased mother was the head of a guild of magical weavers, she enters the Chinese netherworld to try and bring her back.
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Children of the Wind
by Nedda Lewers
Back in Egypt for the summer, Sahara, the keeper of Ali Baba's magic lamp, must protect the treasure from the sorceress El Ghoula, who will stop at nothing to get her hands on it, while trying to repair her friendship with her BFF Vicky.
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Roswell Johnson saves the world!
by Chris Colfer
When he is accidentally abducted by aliens?—?a dream come true?—?11-year-old Roswell Johnson discovers that the Earth is in grave danger and joins forces with a team of quirky extraterrestrials to save his planet from a tyrannical invasion, hoping to restore his faith in humanity along the way.
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Vega's piece of the sky
by Jennifer Torres
When a meteorite crashes in her road-stop hometown that could be worth a lot of money, Vega sets out to find more pieces of the sky in order to save her family's store, embarking on an overnight adventure—?one that makes her realize what is truly valuable.
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