Ya Diversity Titles

Diversity and Inclusion Books:

Book Awards Mentioned:

·                     Schneider Family Book Award (disability)

·                     Printz Award (literature for  young adults)

·                     Alex Awards (adult books)

·                     National Book Award  (F, NF, Poetry, Young People)

·                     Coretta Scott King Book Award (African American)

·                     Pura Belpré Award (Latino)

·                     Stonewall Book Award (GLBT)

·                     Rainbow Book List (GLBTQ)

Going Mental.

·                     It’s Kind of a Funny Story by Ned Vizzini

·                     My Abandonment by Peter Rock

·                     Everybody Sees the Ants by A.S. King

True Story.

·                     The Other Wes Moore by Wes Moore

·                     Zeitoun by Dave Eggers

·                     The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot

Yeah, I’m different.

·                     Stupid Fast by Geoff Herbach

·                     The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie

What color? Human.

·                     Girl in Translation by Jean Kwok

·                     The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini

·                     Mudbound by Hillary Jordan

·                     Upstate by Kalisha Buckhanon

·                     Tyrell by Coe Booth

·                     Gardens of Water by Alan Drew

·                     In Darkness by Nick Lake

·                     The First Part Last by Angela Johnson

·                     Finding Nouf  by Zoe Ferraris

·                     Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice by Phillip Hoose

I am not my disorder.

·                     Marcelo in the Real World by Francisco X. Stork

·                     The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon

·                     Smashed: Story of a Drunken Girlhood by Koren Zailckas

·                     Wonder by R.J. Palacio

·                     Five Flavors of Dumb by Antony John

Love is love.

·                     Donorboy by Brendan Halpin

·                     Eleanor & Park by Rainbow Rowell

·                     Aristotle & Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe by Benjamin Alire Saenz

·                     Hero by Perry Moore

·                     Luna by Julie Anne Peters

·                     Almost Perfect by Brian Katcher

Back then.

·                     The Night Birds by Thomas Maltman

·                     The Wicked and the Just by J. Anderson Coats

·                     Code Name Verity by Elizabeth Wein

I’m sick. So what?

·                     Stitches: a Memoir by David Small

·                     The Fault in our Stars by John Green

I fight.

·                     The Good Soldiers by David Finkel

·                     War by Sebastian Junger

·                     A Long Way Gone by Ishmael Beah

·                     Refresh, Refresh by Danica Novgorodoff

I’m a person, too!

·                     The Art of Racing in the Rain by Garth Stein