Read Me
“So please, oh PLEASE, we beg, we pray, Go throw your TV set away, And in its place you can install, A lovely bookshelf on the wall.” — Roald Dahl, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
Books with Diverse Characters
Novels:
Diverse Cultures
Esperanza Rising by Pam Munoz Ryan
Becoming Naomi Leon by Pam Munoz Ryan
Echo by Pam Munoz Ryan
Tia Lola series by Julia Alvarez
Return to Sender by Julia Alvarez
Lola Levine series by Monica Brown
Sofia Martinez series by Jacqueline Jules
Allie, First At Last by Angela Cervantes
90 Miles to Havana by Enrique Flores-Galbis
Playing Atari with Saddam Hussein by Jennifer Roy
Escape from Aleppo by N.H. Senzai
Extra Credit by Andrew Clements
The Breedwinner by Deborah Ellis
Amina's Voice by Hena Khan
Alvin Ho series by Lenore Look
Ruby Lu by Lenore Look
In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson by Bette Lord
Millicent Min, Girl Genius by Lisa Yee
Kira-Kira by Cynthia Kadohata
Project Mulberry by Linda Sue Park
A Step from Heaven by An Na
Dara Palmer's Major Drama by Emma Shevah
Inside Out and Back Again by Thanhha Lai
The Gold Thread Dress by Carolyn Marsden
The Gauntlet by Karuna Riazi
Save Me a Seat by Sarah Weeks
Younguncle Comes to Town by Vandana Singh
Bollywood Babes by Narinder Dhami
Homeless Bird by Gloria Whelan
Homelessness
Almost Home by Joan Bauer
Crenshaw by Katherine Applegate
How to Steal a Dog by Barbara O'Connor
Hold Fast by Blue Balliett
One Room: A Mystery or Two by Andrew Clements
Towers Falling by Jewell Parker Rhodes
Wolf Hollow by Lauren Wolk
Dyamonde Daniel series by Nikki Grimes
Autism
Rules by Cynthia Lord
The Someday Birds by Sally Pla
A Boy Called Bat by Elana K. Arnold
Slider by Pete Hautman
Mental Illness/ Persons with Differing Abilities
So B. It by Sarah Weeks
OCDaniel by Wesley King
The Notations of Cooper Cameron by Jane O'Reilly
Frazzled : Everyday Disasters and Impending Doom by Booki Vivat
Finding Perfect by Elly Swartz
Silent to the Bone by E.L. Konigsburg
The Goldfish Boy by Lisa Thompson
Rain Reign by Ann M. Martin
Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus by Dusti Bowling
Tangerine by Edward Bloor
Out of My Mind by Sharon Mills Draper
Wonderstruck by Brian Selznick
Feathers by Jacqueline Woodson
I Funny by James Patterson and Chris Grabenstein
The Absolute Value of Mike by Kathryn Erskine
Family Life/ Adoption
The Misadventures of the Family Fletcher by Dana Alison Levy
Call me Sunflower by Miriam Spitzer Franklin
The Great Treehouse War by Lisa Graff
Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus by Dusti Bowling
Greenglass House by Kate Milford
Soar by Joan Bauer