LibGuides: Multicultural and Diverse Juvenile Books: Selecting the Books

Getting Started

Diverse Book Finder
The Diverse BookFinder is a comprehensive collection of children's picture books featuring Black and Indigenous people and People of Color (BIPOC). Recognized as a "Best Digital Tool" by the American Association of School Librarians.

Type the Award Name into the Library Catalog search box. FLITE owns most of the award-winning titles and many of the honor books.

Coretta Scott King Book Awards
African-American culture and universal human values
Pura Belpré Awards
Latino/Latina culture
Schneider Family Book Awards
Disabilities experience
Stonewall Book Awards
Gay/Lesbian/Bisexual/Transgender experience

To specify multicultural books in the Juvenile Collection, follow these steps:

Type your assigned culture into the catalog search box:
- Asian (search Chinese, Japanese, Korean, etc. as well)
- Jewish
- Muslim
- Native American,
- African-American
- Hispanic
- Etc.
From your results page, scroll down the left column until you can select under "Search Found In" the word Subject for your term.
From the resulting list, scroll down the left column and select under "Locations", the words FSU Juvenile 1st Floor.

Frizzy by Claribel A. Ortega
Call Number: Juvenile Easy Fiction (1st Floor) ORTEGA

Winner of the 2023 Pura Belpré Award for Children's Text. New York Times-bestselling author Claribel A. Ortega and star debut artist Rose Bousamra's Frizzy is about Marlene, a young Dominican girl whose greatest enemy is the hair salon! Through her struggles and triumphs, this heartwarming and gorgeous middle-grade graphic novel shows the radical power of accepting yourself as you are, frizzy curls and all. Marlene loves three things: books, her cool Tía Ruby and hanging out with her best friend Camila. But according to her mother, Paola, the only thing she needs to focus on is school and "growing up." That means straightening her hair every weekend so she could have "presentable", "good hair". But Marlene hates being in the salon and doesn't understand why her curls are not considered pretty by those around her. With a few hiccups, a dash of embarrassment, and the much-needed help of Camila and Tia Ruby--she slowly starts a journey to learn to appreciate and proudly wear her curly hair.