#WeNeedDiverseBooks summer reading series SPECIAL with the Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center’s BookDragon!
If you liked the Twilight series, try The Hunt by Andrew Fukuda because both series feature undead love triangles caught up in heart-stopping chills and thrills… and vampires. Did we mention lots of vampires?! BookDragon review here.
#WeNeedDiverseBooks summer reading series! If You Liked The Girl of Fire and Thorns try City of a Thousand Dolls by Miriam Forster because both are lush high fantasy with unique cultures and just a touch of magic.
#WeNeedDiverseBooks summer reading series SPECIAL with the Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center’s BookDragon!
If you liked Twisted Laurie Halse Anderson, try Parrotfish by Ellen Wittlinger because both are about high schoolers who experience extreme transformations, and the challenges they face among their peers for their honest decisions. Click here for BookDragon review.
#WeNeedDiverseBooks summer reading series! If You Liked You Never Heard of Sandy Koufax?!, try Silent Star by Bill Wise because both are picture book biographies of great major league baseball players who did things their own way.
#WeNeedDiverseBooks summer reading series! If You Liked Angelina Ballerina, try A Dance Like Starlight by Kristy Dempsey because both are about young girls (okay one is a mouse!) who can think of nothing but ballet.
#WeNeedDiverseBooks summer reading series SPECIAL with the Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center’s BookDragon!
If you liked A Brief Chapter in my Impossible Life, try First Daughter by Mitali Perkins because both feature feisty tennaged girls- who happen to be adopted - who are determined to figure out who they really are. BookDragon review here.
#WeNeedDiverseBooks summer reading series! If You Liked Me…Jane, try Seeds of Change by Jen Cullerton Johnson because both are picture book biographies about women who love nature and change the world.
#WeNeedDiverseBooks summer reading series SPECIAL with the Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center’s BookDragon! If you liked Are You There God, it’s me, Margaret, try Bird by Crystal Chan because both feature strong adolescent girls caught between two very different parents and backgrounds trying to figure out where each fits in the world. Click here for BookDragon review.
#WeNeedDiverseBooks summer reading series! If You Liked Fantastic Four, try Dangerous by Shannon Hale because both feature superpowers and adventures in space!
#WeNeedDiverseBooks summer reading series SPECIAL with the Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center’s BookDragon!
If you liked Princess stories, try The Thinking Girl’s Treasury of Real Princesses by Shirin Yim Bridges because princesses come from every corner of the world, in all colors, shapes, and sizes! Click here for the BookDragon review.
#WeNeedDiverseBooks summer reading series! If You Liked Stolen, try Panic by Sharon Draper because both books take readers on a heart thumping journey of teens abducted by strangers.
#WeNeedDiverseBooks summer reading series! If You Liked Nightshade, try Black Dog by Rachel Neumeier because both books have different takes on werewolves that involve the roles of loyalty and family ties while searching for answers.
#WeNeedDiverseBooks summer reading series SPECIAL with the Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center’s BookDragon! If you liked Miss Peregrine’s home for Peculiar Children, try The Interrogation of Ashala Wolf by Ambelin Kwaymullina because both feature outcast children with special powers running from evil, and violent enemies who don’t understand that erasing diversity in the world is a very, very bad thing. Click here for BookDragon review.
#WeNeedDiverseBooks summer reading series! If You Liked Under the Never Sky by Vernonica Rossi, try Orleans by Sherry L. Smith because both books feature dual narrators - one female and one male - in perilous quests within dangerous and ravaged futuristic worlds.
#WeNeedDiverseBooks summer reading series SPECIAL with the Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center’s BookDragon!
If you liked The Invention of Hugo Cabret, try The Arrival by Shaun Tan because both are stupendous graphic adventures into fantastical worlds featuring poignant human relationships. Click here for BookDragon review.