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Unworthy Heroes
The Jungle Book changed my life. I remember going to the cinema with my dad, I was about seven and I’d been to the movies a lot (loved Bugsy Malone) and the cinema was some smoky, ill-kept flea-pit...
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August’s New Books
Every month we feature all the new middle grade and young adult releases that include diversity. August brings seven new middle grade and eleven new young adult novels, including the third book in...
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The Demonization of Complexity
Then He asked him, “What is your name?” And he answered, saying, “My name is Legion; for we are many.” — Mark 5:9 Do I contradict myself? Very well, then I contradict myself, I am large, I contain...
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Diversity is in the Eye of the Beholder
One of the frequently asked questions I get about Possess is “Why did you choose to write a non-Caucasian main character?” And since this is the Diversity in YA blog, I thought this was the perfect...
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September’s New Books
Every month we feature all the new middle grade and young adult releases that include diversity. September brings a bumper crop of 26 new titles: 16 new middle grade and 10 new young adult novels. This...
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Karen Sandler on Tankborn
I’d like to say I grew up in an environment full of diversity, that people of all ethnicities came and went in my house, that all races attended my school. But that would be a lie. I grew up in an...
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On Eurocentricity in Fantasy Fiction
I admit it — I am Eurocentric, but I am trying to evolve. My racial heritage is Scots-British-Irish with a dash of German. There is some tenuous documentary evidence of Cherokee and possibly African...
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On the Trail of the Wolf
I’ve been fascinated by animals all of my life … especially such large carnivores as wolves and bears and mountain lions. One of my earliest ambitions was to become a naturalist or perhaps a park...
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Janet Gurtler on If I Tell
Jaz, the main character in If I Tell, is biracial with a black father and a white mother. Race is a large part of Jaz’s story as she struggles in the midst of chaos to figure out exactly how she fits...
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Interview with Cassandra Clare
Cassandra Clare is the author of the bestselling Mortal Instruments trilogy, beginning with City of Bones, which introduced the half-angel Shadowhunters who keep the ordinary world safe from demons....
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