itsfucktimebitches asked:

Hello, I am currently going to school to be a teacher. I plan on teaching anywhere from 7th- 12th grade and would like to have a classroom library. I have already collected some books, but am looking for a diverse range. Do you have any suggestions?

Congrats and so glad to hear you want a diverse range of books at your school!

Would recommend, for starters, looking at the winners/honorees from this year’s ALAYMA awards for the Caldecott & Newberry. They show great visionary work especially in poetry form like Brown Girl Dreaming and The Crossover as well as the graphic novel El Deafo.

Also Linda Sue Park’s A Single Shard, Lisa Yee’s Girl Genius, Gene Luen Yang’s Boxers & Saints, Fake ID by Lamar Giles, Jason Reynolds When I Was The Greatest, G. Neri’s Knock Out Games,  Kekla Magoon’s This is How It Went Down, Maurene Goo’s Since You Asked, Tess Sharpe’s Far From You, Anne Ursu’s The Real Boy, Corinne Duyvis’ Otherbound, and Helen Oyeyemi’s Boy, Snow, Bird. Again this is a range for starters as there are so many more from Walter Dean Myers to Sharon Flake to Coe Booth to Isabelle Allende and the list can go on.

Also check Pura Belpre Award winners as well as Lambda Literary honorees for children’s writing, as well as Disability in YA and American Indians in Children’s Literature for recommendations in various areas. Hope this helps!

Mar 16, 2015
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  10. rainglazed said: Seconding ‘A Single Shard’ – I fell in love with it back in elementary and even today it’s one of my children’s lit comfort books for when college gets me down.
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