Poc

People Of Color. Primarily used in the United States to describe any person who is not considered "white", including African Americans, Asian Americans, Native Americans, Pacific Islander Americans, multiracial Americans, and some Latino Americans ...more

The Hate U Give
Kindred
The Color Purple
Children of Blood and Bone (Legacy of Orïsha, #1)
The Vanishing Half
Homegoing
Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe (Aristotle and Dante, #1)
Between the World and Me
Beloved
The Poet X
Mexican Gothic
Their Eyes Were Watching God
Americanah
Such a Fun Age
Parable of the Sower (Earthseed, #1)
Cemetery Boys by Aiden ThomasClap When You Land by Elizabeth AcevedoLegendborn by Tracy DeonnCinderella Is Dead by Kalynn  BayronThese Violent Delights by Chloe Gong
2020 YA/MG Books With POC Leads
305 books — 743 voters
The Skin I'm In by Sharon G. FlakeCopper Sun by Sharon M. DraperThe Watsons Go to Birmingham - 1963 by Christopher Paul CurtisNovember Blues by Sharon M. DraperTears of a Tiger by Sharon M. Draper
African American Books for Teens
318 books — 357 voters

The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms by N.K. JemisinKindred by Octavia E. ButlerThe City of Brass by S.A. ChakrabortyThe Broken Kingdoms by N.K. JemisinAnansi Boys by Neil Gaiman
Fantasy of color
381 books — 157 voters
Descendant of the Crane by Joan HeLove from A to Z by S.K. AliWe Hunt the Flame by Hafsah FaizalOn the Come Up by Angie ThomasThe Love & Lies of Rukhsana Ali by Sabina Khan
2019 YA/MG Books With POC Leads
262 books — 215 voters


Christina Hammonds Reed
We have to walk around being perfect all the time just to be seen as human. Don't you ever get tired of being a symbol? Don't you ever just want to be human? ...more
Christina Hammonds Reed, The Black Kids

Julissa  Arce
White supremacy is persistent, but so are we.
Julissa Arce, You Sound Like a White Girl: The Case for Rejecting Assimilation

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