Kiera is a Black honors student at Jefferson Academy in Bellevue WA, where the student body is overwhelmingly white. Having transferred from a school where the majority of the student body consisted of students of color, Kiera has had to… Read More ›
Racism in YA Fiction
Within These Lines
Evalina is a high school senior living in San Francisco, California in a loving Italian-American family whose mafia roots are in Chicago. She helps with the family restaurant, has friends, is headed to university, and–most importantly for the story–is in love… Read More ›
Thief of Happy Endings
Cassidy is a teenager with a good family and one friend. At the age of seven she was thrown from a horse, needed 30 stitches in her noggin, and was left with a cautious attitude toward life. Now things are… Read More ›