Reading & Reviewing Diverse YA Books
Title: Night of Madness Author: Ryan Douglass Genres: Horror/Thriller Pages: 304 Publisher: Simon & Schuster Review Copy: ARC from publisher Availability: Available now Summary: Mara is a horror buff whose only fond memories of her dad are bonding over movies […] Read More
Title: We Run the Night Author: Peace Mbengei Genres: Horror, Mystery Pages: 336 Publisher: Soho Teen Review Copy: Review copy provided by publisher Availability: Available now Summary: When Shani returns to her elite, isolated boarding school after her father’s mysterious […] Read More
Huda F Would Love You? A graphic novel by Huda Fahmy with color by Weinye Chen Publisher’s Summary: In this funny and tender finale to the Huda F series, Huda has a plan to find love—but she might need to […] Read More
Today is our last posting for Banned Books week, but the week culminates tomorrow with Let Freedom Read Day. Sponsored by American Library Association, Let Freedom Read Day asks us to do an action, no matter how small, to fight […] Read More
We here at Rich In Color love to read and promote graphic novels. I’ve also begun using them more and more as a literary text in my classroom as there have been a number of literary graphic novels being published. […] Read More
The 2025-2026 year saw the most book bans in the past five years with books by BIPOC and LGBTQ authors making up almost half of the challenged books. Of all the almost 4,000 books target for book bans, here are […] Read More