This afternoon, I attended 6 different Ignite Sessions. They were all great, but one of them that stuck out for me was by Angie Manfredi. She presented “20 Kids/Teen Titles to Diversify Your Collection Today” and gave us a great list of books to add to our collections. Here they are in no particular order:
- Imani’s Moon by Janay Brown-Wood
- I Am Jazz by Jessica Herthel
- Knockout Games by G. Neri
- Some Assembly Required by Arin Andrews
- Rethinking Normal by Katie Rain Hill
- Maddi’s Fridge by Lois Brandt
- The Zero Degree Zombie Zone by Patrik Henry Bass
- A Time to Dance by Padma Venkatraman
- Sweetest Kulu by Celina Kalluk
- Gracefully Grayson by Ami Polonsky
- One Man Guy by Michael Barakiva
- Little Melba and Her Big Trombone by Katheryn Russell-Brown
- The Year of the Fortune Cookie by Andrea Cheng
- Stranger by Sherwood Smith
- Jacob’s New Dress by Sarah Hoffman
- Dreaming in Indian ed. by Lisa Charleyboy
- The Iron Trial by Holly Black and Cassandra Clare
- ‘Twas Nochebuena by Roseanne Greenefield Thong
- The Crossover by Kwame Alexander
What titles would you add to this list?
Jeanne Altman
The Misadventures of the Family Fletcher by Dana Alison Levy