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Wandering Son (vol. 8) by Shimura Takako, translated by Matt Thorn

28 Aug, by SIBookDragon in Fiction, Graphic Title/Manga/Manwha, Japanese, Middle Grade Readers, Translation, Young Adult Readers

Adolescence is difficult enough to navigate, but throw in a few gender-bender issues and you've got multiple challenges earlier generations probably didn't (wouldn't? couldn't?) openly face. With all manner of identity awareness growing worldwide, Shimura Takako’s award-winning, internationally lauded manga series gently and insightfully reflects the gender spectrum on...

Discover WeNeedDiverseBooks with Mitali Perkins’ Secret Keeper

26 Aug, by SIBookDragon in Fiction, Indian, Indian American, Middle Grade Readers, South Asian, South Asian American, WeNeedDiverseBooks, WNDB.SummerReadingSeries2015, Young Adult Readers

Island of a Thousand Mirrors by Nayomi Munaweera

24 Aug, by SIBookDragon in Adult Readers, Audio, Fiction, South Asian, South Asian American, Sri Lankan, Sri Lankan American

In a house by the sea in Colombo, Sri Lanka, live two families: below are the Sinhala owners, the Rajasinghes with two daughters, Yasodhara and Lanka; upstairs are the Tamil clan of Shivalingams with their son, Shiva, twinned by a shared birthday to Yasodhara. While the...

Discover WeNeedDiverseBooks with Patti LaBoucane-Benson’s The Outside Circle

18 Aug, by SIBookDragon in Adult Readers, Canadian, Fiction, Graphic Title/Manga/Manwha, Native American/First Nations/Indigenous Peoples, WeNeedDiverseBooks, WNDB.SummerReadingSeries2015, Young Adult Readers

Discover WeNeedDiverseBooks with Lamar Giles’ Fake ID

14 Aug, by SIBookDragon in Black/African American, Fiction, Latina/o/x, WeNeedDiverseBooks, WNDB.SummerReadingSeries2015, Young Adult Readers

Echo by Pam Muñoz Ryan

12 Aug, by SIBookDragon in Audio, Fiction, Latina/o/x, Middle Grade Readers, Young Adult Readers

For the most magnificent experience, choose to go aural with a pitch-perfect quartet to narrate the four distinct stories that make up this stupendous new novel from award-winning Pam Muñoz Ryan. Then – in another reason to visit your local library often – make sure to at least...

When the Moon Is Low by Nadia Hashimi

11 Aug, by SIBookDragon in Adult Readers, Afghan, Afghan American, Audio, Fiction

Told in two distinct narratives by a mother and her eldest son, When the Moon Is Low follows an Afghan family's desperate journey through Turkey, Greece, Italy, and beyond, in search of safety and peace. [If you choose to go aural, Sneha Mathan (again, as always) is an ideal...

The Truth About Twinkie Pie by Kat Yeh

03 Aug, by SIBookDragon in Audio, Chinese American, Fiction, Middle Grade Readers, Nonethnic-specific

"Well, my mama was a hairdresser, but she had this big dream that what she really wanted to be one day was a – an astronomer," 12-year-old Galileo Galilei Barnes explains to her teacher and class on her first day at her new school. Pointing at the...

Diamond Head by Cecily Wong

30 Jul, by SIBookDragon in Adult Readers, Audio, Chinese American, Fiction, Hapa/Mixed-race, Hawaiian

If you're tuned to celluloid pop culture, you probably heard about the Aloha casting controversy earlier this year, most specifically that casting Emma Stone as a hapa Chinese Hawaiian Swedish character named Allison Ng was probably not the smartest (accurate? effective? politically correct?) choice. Depicting...

Discover WeNeedDiverseBooks with Stella M. Draper’s Stella by Starlight

28 Jul, by SIBookDragon in Black/African American, Fiction, Middle Grade Readers, WeNeedDiverseBooks, WNDB.SummerReadingSeries2015, Young Adult Readers

Discover WeNeedDiverseBooks with Zeina Abirached’s A Game for Swallows

24 Jul, by SIBookDragon in Adult Readers, Graphic Title/Manga/Manwha, Memoir, Middle Eastern, Translation, WeNeedDiverseBooks, WNDB.SummerReadingSeries2015, Young Adult Readers

Discover WeNeedDiverseBooks with Sara Farizan’s Tell Me Again How a Crush Should Feel

22 Jul, by SIBookDragon in Iranian, Iranian American, WeNeedDiverseBooks, WNDB.SummerReadingSeries2015, Young Adult Readers

The Outside Circle by Patti LaBoucane-Benson, illustrated by Kelly Mellings

17 Jul, by SIBookDragon in Adult Readers, Canadian, Fiction, Graphic Title/Manga/Manwha, Native American/First Nations/Indigenous Peoples, Young Adult Readers

"The way our communities were set up was like a circle," an Elder explains to a group of imprisoned men. "In the middle of that circle were children. Around those children were the Elders, who would teach them. Around the Elders were the women. Keeping the...

Stella by Starlight by Sharon M. Draper

14 Jul, by SIBookDragon in Audio, Black/African American, Fiction, Middle Grade Readers, Young Adult Readers

Out when and where they shouldn't be on a chilly October night, Stella and her brother Jojo witness "[n]ine robed figures dressed all in white," gathered around a single wooden cross ablaze. In 1932, Bumblebee, North Carolina is small enough that most of the townspeople know one another,...

Fake ID by Lamar Giles

12 Jul, by SIBookDragon in Audio, Black/African American, Fiction, Latina/o/x, Young Adult Readers

Being the new kid (again) in high school is hard enough, but for Nick Pearson, he also has to get used to a new name and a whole new identity that comes with his latest 'fake ID.' Every time Nick (nope, not his real name) and...

Half a World Away by Cynthia Kadohata

09 Jul, by SIBookDragon in Audio, Central Asian, Fiction, Japanese American, Kazakhstani, Middle Grade Readers

Still only 12, Jaden's life is about to undergo another major change: "his adoptive so-called parents were adopting another child, a baby boy from Kazakhstan. He figured he knew why they were adopting again: They weren't satisfied with him." Parents' hearts are going to be cringe-ing and...

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 Arree Chung’s Ninja!

29 Jun, by SIBookDragon in Children/Picture Books, Chinese American, Fiction, WeNeedDiverseBooks, WNDB.SummerReadingSeries2015

Discover WeNeedDiverseBooks with Reza Jalali’s Moon Watchers

23 Jun, by SIBookDragon in Children/Picture Books, Fiction, Iranian American, WeNeedDiverseBooks, WNDB.SummerReadingSeries2015

Where Are My Books? by Debbie Ridpath Ohi

16 Jun, by SIBookDragon in Canadian, Canadian Asian Pacific American, Children/Picture Books, Fiction

"Spencer loved books." And because he loves them so much, he makes sure to always put his books where they belong so he knows exactly where to find them next time. But one morning, he looks on his shelf and shouts in horror, "WHERE IS...

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