Books for Change discussion

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I want to read a YA feminist contemporary. Any recs?

Anushka wrote: "I want to read a YA feminist contemporary. Any recs?"

These are quite popular so you may have already read them but:

(Single, teenage mother)
With the Fire on High

(Dealing with her Christian mothers high expectations while also being hypersexulised at school)
The Poet X

(I'm not 100% sure if this one is YA but it reads like it. About a mother and daughter, the mother struggles with beauty standards and the daughter is afraid of puberty)
Breasts and Eggs

Does anyone have any non-fiction recs on racism against Asians/Islamphobia or fiction recs with Muslim main characters? Or really any POC main characters? (Preferably that aren't black or east asian just bc I read about them most and would like be a bit more diverse)

Leah wrote: "Does anyone have any non-fiction recs on racism against Asians/Islamphobia or fiction recs with Muslim main characters? Or really any POC main characters? (Preferably that aren't black or east asia..."

I read The Light at the Bottom of the World
It's a fantasy and it has Muslim main character and it's really good!


I haven't read these but I heard they're good
Love, Hate & Other Filters

Love From A to Z

Mad, Bad & Dangerous to Know

Leah wrote: "Anushka wrote: "I want to read a YA feminist contemporary. Any recs?"

These are quite popular so you may have already read them but:

(Single, teenage mother)
With the Fire on High..."

Thanks for the recs! I've heard of the first two books, and I'll check them out soon!