Does anyone have recommendations for happy YA chicklit starring POC and/or by POC?
Qualifications:
I have read half of Dana Davidson's Jason & Kyra and got bored by the prose and descriptions of what everyone was wearing, I know about Melissa de la Cruz, I've read Does My Head Look Big in This? and liked it, may check out First Daughter soon,
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Sorry about offering recs that don't fit your criteria, but I figured it was better than nothing. Will keep thinking, too.
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Bindi Babes/ Bollywood Babes/ Bhangra Babes by Narinder Dhami.
I've haven't read them so I can't answer to how good they actually are.
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I remember enjoying Ellen Wittlinger's Hard Love but years ago, so I'm not sure if it totally qualifies. Boy meets lesbian Latina zine writer; sparks fly. I don't recall it being depressing, but it's not really chicklit.
Virginia Hamilton can be uplifting, but not cheerful or light. The books I've read by Jacqueline Woodson have been pretty serious, but she's written a lot so you might try her out.
This is definitely a genre that needs more of it! It reminds me of desperately looking for books about Jewish girls that were not about the Holocaust.
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Will keep the Hamilton and the Woodson in the back of my mind, but right now I desperately need fluff.
OMG. I was just so depressed scanning through the list of books about black teens at my library. I am sure they are not all depressing, but it was just: gangs, single-parent family, gangs, pregnant, gangs, etc.
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ETA: Not to mention the one that has the main character's family adopting a small almost-dead boy who's the only survivor of an illegal immigrant group crossing the border. AND the main character's aunt is a Bosnian refugee, which just seems like adding insult to injury there.
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I mean, I am all for people knowing about the realities of slavery and the Civil Rights movement and the Japanese internment camps, but right now, I am reading nonfiction for that and need to feel like the world is not horrible.
Wow. That's um... depressing.
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