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Under a Painted Sky by Stacey Lee + Author Interview [in Bookslut]

06 Jul, by SIBookDragon in Author Interview/Profile, Black/African American, Chinese American, Fiction, Middle Grade Readers, Repost, Young Adult Readers

When Samantha Young swoops out of her father's dry goods store still angry from the news that they will soon be leaving Missouri for California – the exact opposite direction from New York – she couldn't possibly have realized that her life would literally be...

Discover WeNeedDiverseBooks with Little Melba and Her Big Trombone

02 Jul, by SIBookDragon in Biography, Black/African American, Children/Picture Books, Nonfiction, WeNeedDiverseBooks, WNDB.SummerReadingSeries2015

Sunday Shopping by Sally Derby, illustrated by Shadra Strickland

14 Jun, by SIBookDragon in Black/African American, Children/Picture Books, Fiction, Nonethnic-specific

"On Sunday night, after we put on our nightgowns, Grandma and I go shopping." Armed with scissors and tape, and a black purse filled with "shopping dollars [that] are easy to tell apart because they're all different colors," Evie and her grandmother open the newspaper and...

Discover WeNeedDiverseBooks with Crystal Chan’s Bird

12 Jun, by SIBookDragon in Black/African American, Caribbean American, Chinese American, Fiction, Hapa/Mixed-race, Latina/o/x, Middle Grade Readers, WeNeedDiverseBooks, WNDB.SummerReadingSeries2015, Young Adult Readers

Rad American Women A-Z: Rebels, Trailblazers, and Visionaries Who Shaped Our History . . . and Our Future! by Kate Schatz, illustrated by Miriam Klein Stahl

26 May, by SIBookDragon in Adult Readers, Biography, Black/African American, Hapa/Mixed-race, Jewish, Latina/o/x, Middle Grade Readers, Native American/First Nations/Indigenous Peoples, Nonethnic-specific, Nonfiction, Pan-Asian Pacific American, Young Adult Readers

Rad American Women A-Z is the first-ever kids' title in 60 years of "storied history" from San Francisco's iconic bookseller/publisher City Lights. What a way to grab attention ...

The Amazing Age of John Roy Lynch by Chris Barton, illustrated by Don Tate

20 May, by SIBookDragon in Biography, Black/African American, Children/Picture Books, Hapa/Mixed-race, Middle Grade Readers, Nonethnic-specific, Nonfiction

Naysayers: picture book this is, yes, but I guarantee that unless you happen to be a post-Civil War scholar, you'll have something to learn inside these informative pages. Here are four reasons why most of us need to read this book: First reason: history. We all should know more about Reconstruction – a "cultural blind spot," as Chris...

Last Stop on Market Street by Matt de la Peña, illustrated by Christian Robinson

12 May, by SIBookDragon in Black/African American, Children/Picture Books, Fiction, Latina/o/x

CJ feels the rain, and plaintively asks his nana, "'How come we gotta wait for the bus in all this wet?’" Doesn't help that CJ's friend happens to drive right by with his dad in their own car. But never, ever underestimate Nana's wisdom because she knows exactly...

With the Might of Angels: The Diary of Dawnie Rae Johnson, Hadley, Virginia, 1954 by Andrea Davis Pinkney

28 Feb, by SIBookDragon in Audio, Black/African American, Fiction, Middle Grade Readers, Young Adult Readers

On the morning of her 12th birthday, Dawnie Rae Johnson – named for the new day rising when she was born – wakes to find a surprise under her pillow: a diary made by her 8-year-old brother Goober. The year will turn out to be crucial, not...

Ruby by Cynthia Bond

24 Feb, by SIBookDragon in Adult Readers, Audio, Black/African American, Fiction

How surprised was I to hear earlier this month that Oprah's latest Book Club 2.0 pick just happened to be on my iPod! I suppose the fact that I always have no fewer than a couple dozen books on my phone at all times makes...

The Story Hour by Thrity Umrigar + Author Profile [in Bloom]

23 Feb, by SIBookDragon in Adult Readers, Audio, Author Interview/Profile, Black/African American, Fiction, Indian American, Repost, South Asian American

Thrity Umrigar: “It’s a good time to be a writer” Perhaps I shouldn’t admit so blatantly to literary-personality preferences, but I must confess here: Thrity Umrigar is my very favorite person to run into at (dreaded) literary conferences. I know from experience how irreverently entertaining she can...

I Thought My Soul Would Rise and Fly: The Diary of Patsy, a Freed Girl, Mars Bluff, South Carolina 1865 by Joyce Hansen

22 Feb, by SIBookDragon in Audio, Black/African American, Fiction, Middle Grade Readers, Young Adult Readers

For Patsy, literacy began "as a joke." On the Davis Plantation in South Carolina in the 1860s, Mistress Davis’ niece Annie told her aunt, "'We are only playing at school ...

47 by Walter Mosley

12 Feb, by SIBookDragon in Audio, Black/African American, Fiction, Middle Grade Readers, Young Adult Readers

February marks African American Heritage Month. Do you know where your books are? I've been picking up older, missed titles the last couple of weeks, and discovering some unique treasures, especially those that highlight unusual or lesser-known historical experiences. Stay tuned for more ...

The Case for Loving: The Fight for Interracial Marriage by Selina Alko, illustrated by Sean Qualls and Selina Alko

27 Jan, by SIBookDragon in Black/African American, Children/Picture Books, Hapa/Mixed-race, Nonfiction

"First comes love. Then comes marriage." As pervasively common as that children's rhyme is, the legal union between two people has not always been – nor is it still – a right granted to all Americans. In 1967, Richard and Mildred Loving challenged the state of...

Broken Monsters by Lauren Beukes

07 Jan, by SIBookDragon in Adult Readers, Audio, Black/African American, Fiction, Hapa/Mixed-race, Nonethnic-specific, South African

By about page 50 or within the first of 12 parts stuck in the ears (the multi-reader cast is absolutely superb, by the way), the whodunnit is pretty clear. That said, serial murder mystery this is, finding out whydunnit-and-howdunnit is the thrill ride you won't be...

Bad Feminist: Essays by Roxane Gay

24 Dec, by SIBookDragon in Absolute Favorites, Adult Readers, Audio, Black/African American, Caribbean American, Fiction, Haitian, Haitian American, Memoir, Nonfiction

If I were to choose the one book that affected me most this year – the one that ran the entire spectrum from giddiest to maddest, from eye-opening in wonder to eye-scrunching in horror – this is it. Bad Feminist has forever changed the way I read,...

Little Melba and Her Big Trombone by Katheryn Russell-Brown, illustrated by Frank Morrison

09 Nov, by SIBookDragon in Biography, Black/African American, Children/Picture Books, Nonfiction

Dizzy Gillespie. Billie Holiday. Quincy Jones. Duke Ellington. They're all household names, right? The list goes on: Count Basie, Tony Bennett, Aretha Franklin, Ray Charles, and so many more. So why is Melba Doretta Liston, who not only played with, but also composed and arranged music...

brown girl dreaming by Jacqueline Woodson

17 Sep, by SIBookDragon in Audio, Black/African American, Memoir, Middle Grade Readers, Nonfiction, Poetry, Verse Novel/Nonfiction, Young Adult Readers

Not to play favorites, but since the 2014 National Book Awards Longlist For Young People’s Literature was announced earlier this week, I'm putting my bet on Jacqueline Woodson’s childhood memoir-in-verse, brown girl dreaming, to not only to make the shortlist (announced October 15), but go all the...

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Under a Painted Sky by Stacey Lee + Author Interview [in Bookslut]

Discover WeNeedDiverseBooks with Little Melba and Her Big Trombone

Sunday Shopping by Sally Derby, illustrated by Shadra Strickland

Discover WeNeedDiverseBooks with Crystal Chan’s Bird

Rad American Women A-Z: Rebels, Trailblazers, and Visionaries Who Shaped Our History . . . and Our Future! by Kate Schatz, illustrated by Miriam Klein Stahl

The Amazing Age of John Roy Lynch by Chris Barton, illustrated by Don Tate

Last Stop on Market Street by Matt de la Peña, illustrated by Christian Robinson

With the Might of Angels: The Diary of Dawnie Rae Johnson, Hadley, Virginia, 1954 by Andrea Davis Pinkney

Ruby by Cynthia Bond

The Story Hour by Thrity Umrigar + Author Profile [in Bloom]

I Thought My Soul Would Rise and Fly: The Diary of Patsy, a Freed Girl, Mars Bluff, South Carolina 1865 by Joyce Hansen

47 by Walter Mosley

The Case for Loving: The Fight for Interracial Marriage by Selina Alko, illustrated by Sean Qualls and Selina Alko

Broken Monsters by Lauren Beukes

Bad Feminist: Essays by Roxane Gay

Little Melba and Her Big Trombone by Katheryn Russell-Brown, illustrated by Frank Morrison

brown girl dreaming by Jacqueline Woodson

Discover WeNeedDiverseBooks with Crystal Chan’s Bird

The Girl Who Fell from the Sky by Heidi W. Durrow

Liar by Justine Larbalestier

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