Myself as a Young Reader: Where Was I in the Books I Read?

On facebook Sharyn November posed the following three-part question:

When you were a child, did you see yourself in the books you looked at and read? How about when you were a teenager? What, in your opinion, does “seeing yourself in books” mean? If you didn’t see yourself in books, did you want to?

I think about this all the time in terms of the diversity conversation. First of all, as a child, I hadone major way I could see myself in pretty much all the books I read — by being white. So...