There is one big problem with contemporary YA: not enough diversity. Like I said, teenagers should be able to read stories about them, written for them, but this only works when there is enough representation within the genre. Lee & Low published data released by the Cooperative Children’s Book Center (CCBC) on children’s and YA books about/by people of color, and while the percentage of books about people of colour has increased in the past couple of years, things are not the same for writers of color.

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