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Diversity in Kid's Literature
September 2026
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Picture Books and Early Readers
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Chapter Books & Graphic Novels
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Roi and Me and the Double V: A WWII Story
by Sandra W. Headen
Best friends Marvel and Roi help out on the WWII homefront, but when racial injustice threatens their community, they must turn to activism for a victory of their own in this empowering middle grade novel. As WWII rages overseas, best friends track star Marvel and future journalist Roi face injustice much closer to home. They do what they can to support the war effort--growing Victory gardens, collecting scrap--but these contributions don't feel like much of a victory when no one is fighting to protect their freedom. Patriotic Black recruits are turned away from the army, food shortages abound, and the military moves into their neighborhood. When an industrial developer threatens to destroy the local park where Marvel runs track, this Olympic hopeful fears she'll never make it to the starting line. Galvanized, Marvel and Roi learn about the Double V campaign challenging the irony and hypocrisy of racial inequality: V for Victory Abroad and Victory at Home. With the help of their journalist teacher, can two kids support their community in an activist movement to win the battle against injustice at home?
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Fairy Door Diaries: Eliza and the Fairy Double
by Megan McDonald
In an adventure from the creator of Judy Moody, a girl meets a fairy that looks just like her--a discovery sure to enchant every reader who believes that magic awaits on the other side of the door. Hic Eliza has a bad case of the hiccups. According to her neighbor Mr. McQuestion, that might mean that elves are trying to get her attention. It might mean that they need her elph. Help, that is So through the tiny fairy door Eliza and Haiku, her dragonfly familiar, tumble--straight into another adventure on the Other Side. First, they meet Eliza's fairy double, a mini version of Eliza but one who is wearing funny clothes and a funny hat and acting, well, funny. Then they meet the other elves of Elfindor, who claim that Eliza's double is not her true double but an imposter. Who should they believe? Shape-shifting, stolen identities, and mirror images are all part of a mixed-up brew that has Eliza wondering, Who is what, and what is who?
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Death in the Tallgrass
by Andrea L. Rogers
The author of the Walter Award-winning Man Made Monsters and the Caldecott Medal-winning ChoochHelped delivers a thriller that reads like Holes for a new generation--a murder mystery interwoven with Cherokee history and culture. The hills of northeastern Oklahoma. 1968. Cynthia and her family have moved onto their grandfather's ranch in the hills of Oklahoma. There's any number of problems she can see with her new situation, but the main one is plain: Grandfather Wilson is not a good man. But with her sisters and her parents--and the opportunity to reconnect with her Cherokee heritage--it's at least manageable. Until a strange girl shows up on the ranch and Cynthia's life is changed forever. For she soon realizes that death lurks within the beautiful prairie grass around them...and a terrible secret that will tear their family apart if she lets it.
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Secrets at Sparhawk Point
by Anna Rose Johnson
To draw tourists to their declining coastal town, a group of children claim to have seen a mythic creature from Ojibwe legend, the storm-monster Mishipeshu. But when their plan backfires, they'll need to convince everyone the beast is only make-believe. But. . . what if it isn't? 1943. Sparhawk Point, Michigan may be a small town, but it's home. For the Swedish Ahlstrom girls, it's the only place they've ever known--a place they may have to leave if their father's church can't find more parishioners. The Ojibwe Robicheaux boys are struggling, too: their father is off at war, and a lack of tourists means no income from their two rental cottages. These kids can't bear the thought of leaving. . . so they'll have to make new residents come to them, and fast. After spotting an unknown object in the water, they find their solution. Drawing on inspiration from Ojibwe stories of the mysterious Mishipeshu--the riser of storms on Lake Superior--the children spread stories of their very own American Loch Ness monster to bring curious visitors to their shores. But their plan works too well People become afraid to visit. To save their families, they'll need to convince everyone that the creature isn't real. . . even if that may prove to be their biggest lie yet.
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Sisters Alone
by Shifa Saltagi Safadi
Trapped home alone during a blizzard, Rama and her younger sister Leena must face their icy relationship, anxiety, and grief as they fight to survive the storm and the turmoil around them.
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