Happy Asian-Pacific American Heritage Month! Racial diversity is still a growing need in YA lit, but this year is seeing a nice amount of growth, finally, in YAs featuring main characters of Asian descent, from all over the continent and in a wide variety of genres. We had some great ones last year (highlights include Tell […]
Some great books get nominated for awards, get movie deals, hit bestseller lists, and get so much publicity you can’t swing a stick without hitting a display. Some…don’t. Thanks to some fantastic award picks this year, most notably by the Morris committee (which awards excellence in a debut), this list isn’t quite as long as […]