What covers are you drooling over? Because I know for me, these are just all standouts.Ģ021 YA Books Featuring Teens of Color On The Cover Also note that publication dates are tentative in the best of circumstances, but in light of the pandemic and printer backlog issues, it’s very possible these dates will change.Īll descriptions of the books come from Goodreads, as I have not read a single book for next year yet - I’m still working my way through summer 2020 new titles! Not all of these will be #OwnVoices books. I’ve stuck to books where it is very obvious the teen on the cover is a teen of color. It won’t be comprehensive, but it’s going to be pretty darn close this soon into the 2021 YA release world. This list is compiled through a number of resources, including publisher catalogs, Goodreads, and more. This is but the beginning, especially as not all covers for the coming year have been released yet. I suspect that the same is going to be true of 2021 YA book covers. Last year, I did three separate roundups of 2020 YA covers with teens of color on the cover, and that didn’t even capture all of them.
It’s far from perfect, but the steps forward here are heartening.
There didn’t used to be too many of them, but over the course of continuing this annual series highlighting YA books with teens of color on the cover, it’s gotten so much better. It’s amazing to think about how different YA book covers looked back in 2014, when I first began to look closely at representation of teens of color.
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