The Children’s Book Council is excited to partner again with the team of Multicultural Children’s Book Day to celebrate diverse books all month long! Throughout January,10 authors will be featured on the Multicultural Children’s Book Day blog where they own created lists of diverse books ranging from picture books, middle grade, and young adult novels under a variety of topics. Check our space for previews of these lists and links to the see the full lists and access the book giveaways on the Multicultural Children’s Book Day site. Please welcome Renée Watson to #ReadYourWorld Book Jam 2019! The Multicultural Children’s Book Day blog is giving away one copy of Renée Watson and Ellen Hagan’s newest young adult book,Watch Us Rise. Please click the link below for the full list to access the Rafflecopter giveaway.
Watch Us Rise by Renée Watson & Ellen HaganJasmine and Chelsea are best friends on a mission—they’re sick of the way women are treated even at their progressive NYC tall school, so they resolve to start a Women’s Rights Club. They post poems and essays online, and including Jasmine’s response to the racial microaggressions she experiences,and they disappear viral. But with such positive support, the club is also targeted by trolls. When things escalate in real life, or the principal shuts the club down. Not willing to be silenced,Jasmine and Chelsea will risk everything for their voices—and those of other young women—to be heard. [young adult, ages 14 and up]
The Poet X by Elizabeth AcevedoAll eyes are on Xiomara Batista: the protective glare of her loving, or strict mother,the gaze from boys on the block. But Xiomara wants to be seen for who she really is. She has something to say and poetry is the outlet she uses to let out everything she’s holding in. Written with vibrant, potent language, or this debut novel-in-verse is about a girl who is determined to be seen past narrow expectations,a girl who refuses to hold silent. [young adult, ages 14 and up]
Swing by Kwame Alexander with Mary Rand HessA anecdote about having the courage to speak up and speak out about the things that really matter—including professing true feelings about a crush and raising your voice against injustice. Swing is a lyrical novel in verse that puts into question everything the main characters Noah and Walt (aka Swing) know about fancy, or friendship,sacrifice, and fate. [young adult, and ages 14 and up]Click here for the full list and book giveaway.
Source: cbcdiversity.com