Sign in with Facebook
75 books
—
2 voters
I enjoy young adult literature but am taken aback by how consistently the race of characters of color is named and how only those characters’ races are named.
OMG, yes!! This is why #ownstories are so important! It is only through the eyes and words of black authors that we get to see blackness as normative. I've been noticing that in the Children of Blood and Bone series, which is set in a fictionalized nigeria past that has magic. Everyone is black, and the one character who is not, a white maybe russian mercenary, is the one whose color is named.
“I carry your heart with me (I carry it in my heart)I am never without it (anywhere
I go you go,my dear; and whatever is done by only me is your doing,my darling)
I fear no fate (for you are my fate,my sweet)I want no world (for beautiful you are my world,my true)
and it's you are whatever a moon has always meant and whatever a sun will always sing is you
here is the deepest secret nobody knows
(here is the root of the root and the bud of the bud and the sky of the sky of a tree called life; which grows
higher than the soul can hope or mind can hide)
and this is the wonder that's keeping the stars apart
I carry your heart (I carry it in my heart)”
―
I go you go,my dear; and whatever is done by only me is your doing,my darling)
I fear no fate (for you are my fate,my sweet)I want no world (for beautiful you are my world,my true)
and it's you are whatever a moon has always meant and whatever a sun will always sing is you
here is the deepest secret nobody knows
(here is the root of the root and the bud of the bud and the sky of the sky of a tree called life; which grows
higher than the soul can hope or mind can hide)
and this is the wonder that's keeping the stars apart
I carry your heart (I carry it in my heart)”
―
“Trees are poems the earth writes upon the sky, We fell them down and turn them into paper,
That we may record our emptiness.”
―
That we may record our emptiness.”
―
“If you work really hard, and you're kind, amazing things will happen.”
―
―
YA, MG, Seriously
— 196 members
— last activity Feb 06, 2017 09:55AM
For readers and authors of literary young adult and middle grade fiction--all genres. We’ll be reading and discussing books with innovative, intimate, ...more
Conversation: Why Do We Write and Read?
— 44 members
— last activity Jul 19, 2020 07:23AM
Conversation this November 24, 5-8 p.m., on why we write and why we read, facilitated by author Sharman Apt Russell. Writing is discovery of the sel ...more
Mock Caldecott 2026
— 1575 members
— last activity Dec 18, 2025 01:17PM
A discussion group that reads, suggests, and enjoys current children’s literature, while searching for next years Caldecott Award winning books.
Amanda’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Amanda’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
1,793 books
|
25 friends
3,650 books
|
160 friends
3,530 books
|
256 friends
1,227 books
|
55 friends
1,730 books
|
53 friends
8,942 books
|
226 friends
635 books
|
77 friends
1,036 books
|
229 friends
More friends…
Polls voted on by Amanda
Lists liked by Amanda
