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Category Archives: Diverse

Review: Sacrifice by Cindy Pon

September 23, 2016by Yash Leave a comment

Sacrifice by Cindy Pon is the sequel to Serpentine and the final instalment of Skybright’s story. For those of you are new to this blog and/or don’t know me, Serpentine was the fantasy […]

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Diverse, Fantasy

Review: Grace Beside Me by Sue McPherson

August 19, 2016by Yash Leave a comment

Life is not ordinary for Fuzzy Mac, but it should be. What could possibly be exciting about growing up with her Nan and Pop in a small country town? Rivalry, […]

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#weneeddiversebooks, Australian Fiction, Diverse

Review: Moonshot: The Indigenous Comics Collection, Vol. 1

August 18, 2016by Janet 7 Comments

From the foreword to Moonshot, by editor Hope Nicholson: MOONSHOT is a project that is a thrilling new collection that showcases diverse aboriginal representation in comic books. This is an anthology […]

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#weneeddiversebooks, Canadian, Collections, Comics, Diverse, Diversity

Guest Post: Writing While Indigenous/Writing While Chinese Intersectionality in Oz YA – A Conversation

August 9, 2016by Nafiza 3 Comments

Writing While Indigenous/Writing While Chinese Intersectionality in Oz YA   Ambelin Kwaymullina is an Aboriginal writer, illustrator and law academic who comes from the Palyku people of the Pilbara region […]

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#weneeddiversebooks, Australian Author, Australian Fiction, Discussion, Diverse, Diversity, Guest Post

Review: Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare and Gareth Hinds

July 21, 2016by Janet 2 Comments

Plays are meant to be performed, not read. But a) not everybody lives near a theatre that performs Shakespeare’s plays, b) living near a theatre does not mean you can […]

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Adaptations, Diverse, Graphic Novels, romance

Review: The Outside Circle by Patti LaBoucane-Benson and Kelly Mellings

July 7, 2016by Janet 2 Comments

The Outside Circle: A Graphic Novel by Patti LaBoucane-Benson; art by Kelly Mellings. Publisher: House of Anansi Press Publication date: spring 2015 Why you need to read this graphic novel: […]

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#weneeddiversebooks, Abuse, Bullying, Canadian, Crossover, Death and Mourning, Discrimination, Diverse, Diversity, Graphic Novels, History, Racism, Racism, Social Issues

Notes from the Wild: Vol. 14

May 30, 2016by Jane the Raincity Librarian 7 Comments

  Five Finds is a sporadic feature on my blog in which I share five books that match a given theme/subject/topic. Topics so far have included Fiction for Budding Cupcake […]

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#weneeddiversebooks, Book Lists, Disability, Diverse, Diversity, Notes from the Wild, Themed Reading Lists, Young Adult

Review: Climbing the Date Palm by Shira Glassman

May 19, 2016by Janet 2 Comments

Climbing the Date Palm is the second book in the Mangoverse series (The Second Mango is the first – you might want to start there) buuuut this one fits better with […]

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Diverse, Diversity, Dragons, Fantasy, Historical Fiction, LGBTQ, romance

The Ballad of Black Tom by Victor Lavalle: A Discussion

May 11, 2016by Nafiza 3 Comments

I was going to discuss the immigrant experience from a personal perspective being an immigrant myself. I was going to talk about the importance of books when you are feeling […]

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#weneeddiversebooks, Diverse, Diversity, Novellas, Review

Nafiza’s Guide to Reading Diversely in 2016 Part 2

May 4, 2016by Nafiza 2 Comments

A couple of months earlier (two or three?) I posted a list of titles that, in my opinion, deal with diverse characters and/or are written by POC authors. Here are […]

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Book Lists, Diverse, Diversity

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