March’s New Books
Posted by Diversity in YA on Feb 27, 2011 in Blog, Featured, Middle Grade, New Books, Young Adult | 6 commentsEvery month we feature all the new middle grade and young adult releases that include diversity. March 2011 brings us six middle grade and twelve young adult novels, including what may be the first published YA novel about a biracial FTM transgender teen, I Am J.
By “diversity” we mean: (1) main characters or major secondary characters (e.g., a love interest or best friend kind of character) who are of color or are LGBT; or (2) written by a person of color or LGBT author. Unfortunately due to time constraints we are unable to include each book’s summary, but we encourage you to click on the book covers to be taken to Indie Bound, where you can read a description of the book.
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Middle Grade Fiction
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Young Adult Fiction
As always, we tried to find all the relevant new titles this month, but we may have missed a few. If you know of a book we should include, this month or in the future, please tell us!
No middle grade sci fi/fantasy….sigh.
But I shall add Truancy Origins to my list–thanks! And possibly Gemini Bites, although it sounds like there probaby isn’t a vampire?????
The new Laura Resau was already there–I love her writing!
i always find great books to add to
my to read list. thanks for the updates
malinda!!
Clicking on the cover of Inside Out & Back Again brings you to the page for Take Me To the River.
Thanks for letting us know! Link fixed.
omg on the DiYa icon. hahahaha!
I stick my tongue out at you!!