Diverse Books

From a big-city internship to work at the family Laundromat, these books for tweens deliver a range of experiences.

Sidewalk chalk art, scavenger hunts, and skyline-themed art projects are just some ways to celebrate an urban summer, along with reading a great book.

A new cookbook for kids shares Juneteenth history and tradition through recipes, as well activities for the whole family.

They are politicians and artists and athletes. They are young people, and people with a few years of life under their belts. And their stories can inform and encourage young readers in June and throughout the year. These books can change lives—and even save them.

These titles take a look at two traditions around the Muslim holiday that commemorates the story of Ibrahim (Abraham).

For new readers who like their stories with sparkle, these two books are sure to delight.

Conveying a range of experiences, these stories of family, love, humor, and loss will engage children during Caribbean American Heritage Month and beyond. 

Centering dignity and equity, authors strive to normalize the topic of menstruation and show how different people experience it.

Two authors, who met via social media in 2017 and have been friends since, both published books centering children who happen to be disabled. Here they are in conversation about the need to call disability what it is, and to allow those with disabilities to have the same story lines as everyone else.