Diversity
Are you students in need of a little global goodwill? Check out these latest series that promote social awareness and responsibility.
The Los Angeles Public Library hosted "Art Without Walls," an art event with the L.A. Hammer Museum where kids honored women in their lives while sending messages about equal rights.
Fifth grader Sidney Keys’s "Books N Bros" club celebrates characters who are black—and gets boys reading.
Download a high-res PDF version of "Comfort Zone," Gene Luen Yang's original comic for SLJ.
A collection of autobiographical or fictional stories based on childhood memories or that draw upon people's work with immigrant children, including works by Julia Alvarez, Nicola Yoon, and Edwidge Danticat.
I tell stories because the real world sucked for me when I was a teen. No. Sucked doesn’t even begin to cover it. The real world nearly killed me. The real world told me that I was going to hell because I was gay. It told me I would die of AIDS or have the […]
The recent expanding of deportation regulations have not just stirred up fear and worry in communities, they have also spurred many schools and districts to take action.
An early lesson in empathy inspired Gene Luen Yang. In an original comic for School Library Journal, the National Ambassador for Young People's Literature depicts the inspiration for his Reading Without Walls program.
A "Wall Street Journal" article profiling kid lit "rock stars" who are all white men angered readers. it also prompted soul-searching about diversity in the profession—and a push for solutions.
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