ON OUR RADAR
- White kids will no longer be a majority in just a few years at CNN
- Where Are All the Black Boys? by Varian Johnson
- See The Fascinating Evolution of Cover Art From 12 Legendary Queer Books at Autostraddle – including Annie on My Mind
- In Our Own Words – YA author E.M. Kokie on how girls in YA novels rarely describe their own bodies using anatomically specific words
- Celebrate YA Books That Feature Haitian Culture at YALSA’s The Hub
- Pictures, Patterns, Words by Lyn Miller-Lachmann at Diversity in YA
- Author’s Notebook | Leslea Newman at The Whole Megillah
- Is UK Publishing Too “White, Middle-Class” to Be Truly Global? at Publishing Perspectives
- No censorship: Northville Schools refuse to remove Anne Frank from reading list via Hometownlife.com
- Trash Can Days by Teddy Steinkellner – review at Pink Me – addresses depictions of race in YA
- DiYA Author Spotlight: Laurence Yep at Diversity in YA
- Black In America: A Story Rendered In Gray Scale – NPR books on the need for coming-of-age novels that address race
- 2013 Middle Grade Black Boys: Seriously, People? at Fuse #8
- DiversifYA: Kristina Pérez – interview with the author of The Myth of Morgan La Fey (Palgrave Macmillan) and A Hedonist's Guide to Beijing; also see this week’s interview with Tamara Mataya
- YA books need to reflect our diverse society at The Telegraph
- A Few Hints About the Japanese Literature Challenge 7 Coming This June at Dolce Belleza
- Two-in-One Notebook Special | Author Leanne Lieberman and Editor Sarah Harvey, Lauren Yanofsky Hates the Holocaust at The Whole Megillah
- 10 YA Books About Southeast Asian Americans at Diversity in YA
