Friday Fill-Ins: Diversity in YA Lit
In today’s Friday Reflection, Christie G joins our ongoing discussion on diversity by sharing insights from her Latino teens. Though Christie and I serve communities that are very diverse, we both still find it hard to find ya literature that represents this diversity in both the characters in the books and on the covers. For today’s Friday Fill-Ins, we’re asking you to share titles that you think handle diversity well. You know the drill, fill in the blanks in the comments.
A title that handles diversity well is ________________________________ by ___________________.
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About Karen Jensen, MLS
Karen Jensen has been a Teen Services Librarian for almost 30 years. She created TLT in 2011 and is the co-editor of The Whole Library Handbook: Teen Services with Heather Booth (ALA Editions, 2014).
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The MG title CAPTURE THE FLAG by Kate Messner has a diverse collection of main characters.