By Page Turners
Each month Page Turners picks a theme and as a group we all pick books to read that relate to this theme. In December it was Diversity and this is what we found in common with our Diversity books.
Each month Page Turners picks a theme and as a group we all pick books to read that relate to this theme. In December it was Diversity and this is what we found in common with our Diversity books.
9 Things We Found In Diversity Books
People mispronounce names all the time - and it is a surprise when people get it right on the first try.
Oppressive acts usually carried out by people in power to minority groups - a ruling class looking down on normal people and others beginning to do the same.
The books are normally written by those of the minority.
Most authors write minority groups as lower classes.
The people tend to copy what those in power do creating nation wide discrimination that is is hard to reverse.
In most diversity books there are only two classes or races - a ‘better’ class and a ‘lower’ class
There are a lot more diverse books than non-diverse books.
The main character is usually of a minority ethnic group and have a non-minority character to help them.
The government, police forces, etc are usually presented as a bad thing.
Page Turners Diversity Book List:
Six of Crows - Leigh Bardugo
A Beautiful Lie - Irfan Master
Crongton Knights - Alex Wheatle
Cruel Crown - Victoria Aveyard
The Fandom - Anna Day
The Fandom Rising - Anna Day
Killing Hour - Lisa Gardner
Secrets of the Henna Girl - Sufiya Ahmed
Chinglish - Sue Cheung
Indigo Donut - Patrice Lawrence
Noughts and Crosses - Malorie Blackman
A Dream of Lights - Kerry Drewery
Shadow of the Moon - M M Kaye
Across the Nightingale Floor - Gillian Rubinstein
If you want to join us in our half term theme reads, our next theme is non-fiction. We have decided to push ourselves and try to learn some fun facts about our chosen topics. We will be talking about it on the last Thursday of this half term at lunch in the LRC (Thursday 13th February).
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