Has very explicit description of the sex: If explicit sex scenes bore you or offend you, then skip this story. Three Jewish fairies have three-way sex in order to generate the magic they need to grant a Hanukah miracle. I got this book after an autistic reviewer at Disability in Kid Lit gave it a thumbs up (click the title to read the review). Story from the perspective of a 12-year-old autistic boy, Jason, who hopes that he has made his first real friend when he starts corresponding with a girl via a web site for people who write stories.Anything but Typical, by Nora Raleigh Baskin.The Girl with the Stars in Her Hair: A Children’s Chapter Book, by Burgandi Rakoska About a girl with dyslexia who meets a girl with stars in her hair and goes on adventures.

As usual for Kayla Bashe, many of her characters are some variety of lesbian or otherwise in the LGBTIQA+ spectrum. Each book can be read on its own, you do not need to read these in any particular order.

Magic Beginnings (Magical Girl Academy Book 1) Awakening Magic (Magical Girl Academy Book 2) Magic Resilient by Kayla Bashe, The main character in each book in the “Magical Girl Academy” series is–you! This is a “choose your own adventure” story where you interact with the story to choose what actions to follow.

The list gets really long so I’m going to put a “read more” break here: If it matters, the most recent books I read are near the top, while the books I read in early 2015 are near the bottom. If there is no Tumblr, then in most cases I found something else to link to like the author’s web site or Goodread page, or the Goodread for the book itself. If the author has a Tumblr I tried to link to it. The sub-bullet may give a summary, or sometimes an assessment of the book, or at least an indication of what kind of “diversity” is represented in the book. The first part of each bullet simply gives the book title and author. If it was in some way “diverse” then I have tried to list it below. Not every book I read in 2015 was a “diverse” book, but many were. And now I know tons of resources for finding lengthy lists of books with diverse characters. It’s just that until the blog started reviewing young adult and middle grade books with disabled characters, and until the #WeNeedDiverseBooks movement got rolling, it was hard for me to learn about options that was out there.

Preferably, characters who are also women/girls or non-binary. I didn’t pick a concrete target, but I have wanted for a long time to increase the number of books I read featuring disabled characters, characters of color, LGBTIQA+ characters, and characters living with poverty.

So, about a year ago, the team encouraged people to make a pledge to read a certain number of “diverse books” in the year 2015. 39 notes JanuWe Need Diverse Books Pledge: “Diverse” Books I Read in 2015

Magic Beginnings by Kayla Bashe