African American voices
One of the trends in libraries and the literary world over the past few years, is to offer readers different view points. Traditionally, literature has been full of white people. People of color or other religions or sexual orientations were relegated to best friend roles or were minor characters. So to have a number of stories, where the main character is a person of color and isn't a stereotype (like African Americans only portrayed as slaves or in stories about the Civil Rights movement, or Hispanic characters only portrayed as migrants), is to offer a wider variety of people the opportunity to see their own stories in print. It also offers an opportunity to people like me (a middle aged white lady) to see stories that are different from my own. Here are two brand new stories that offer voices that are fresh, charismatic, AND happen to be told by and are about people of color. The first one is by author Renee Watson. I read her book "Pieci...