Cultural Diversity Week 2026 - YA Books

A curated reading guide celebrating cultural diversity in young adult literature.

Updated February 26, 2026
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The sun is also a star
Yoon, Nicola
Paper Book
The internationally bestselling love story from Nicola Yoon, author of Everything, Everything. Now a major film starring Yara Shahidi and Charles Melton! Natasha- I'm a girl who believes in science and facts. Not fate. Not destiny. Or dreams that...
Laurinda
Pung, Alice
Paper Book
When my dad dropped us off at the front gate, the first things I saw were the rose garden spreading out on either side of the main driveway and the enormous sign in iron cursive letters spelling out LAURINDA. No 'Ladies College' after it, of course; the name was meant to speak for itself.
Becoming Kirrali Lewis
Harrison, Jane
Paper Book
Set within the explosive cultural shifts of the 1960s and 1980s, Becoming Kirrali Lewis chronicles the journeyof a young First Nations Australian teenager as she leaves her home town in rural Victoria to take on a law degree in the city of Melbourne in 1985. Adopted at birth by a white family,...
Mad, bad & dangerous to know
Ahmed, Samira (Fiction writer)
Paper Book
It is August in Paris and budding art historian Khayyam should be having the time of her life - but even in the City of Lights she can't stop worrying about the mess she left back home in Chicago. Only when she meets a cute young Parisian - who happens to be a distant relative of the novelist...

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