Future Shock by Elizabeth Briggs6/1/2023 ![]() ![]() Thankfully, this list isn't comprehensive, but it's a start. All focus on women of color, and all make that woman the focus of the cover, not hidden in the background. She's an intelligent foster-care kid about to turn 18 without any foreseeable. Although she has an eidetic memory, Elena Martinez has little else going for her. A Latina teen with total recall joins four other young Angelenos with special skills on a secret time-travel mission to the future. So to celebrate young adult books that feature people of color on the cover, here are 25 contemporary books you can support. by Elizabeth Briggs RELEASE DATE: April 1, 2016. In 2011, Jezebel reported that 90 percent of YA book covers featured white characters/actors.Ĭovers matter. They are Clockwork Prince by Cassandra Clare and The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie, and the latter's POC on the cover? It's a toy, not even a real human of Native American descent. ![]() Of those 17, only two clearly portrayed a character of color on the cover of the book. In 2012, she found that of 109 individual YA titles on the Publishers Weekly list of bestselling children's books of 2012, 17 included diverse main characters (and notably she counted each Pretty Little Liars book separately). ![]() Young adult author Malinda Lo has been tracking diversity on YA book covers for years. In fact, if it's true to the story, we would far prefer it. By supporting YA novels with a POC on the cover, readers can show that yes, we will buy a book with a non-white person on the jacket. ![]() Unfortunately, whitewashing book covers is still a rampant problem in the publishing industry - but there are authors, designers, and publishers working to change that. ![]()
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