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[quote=Anonymous]OP, you obviously don't know this, but Jason Reynolds is an acclaimed, celebrated, wonderful YA author who is a black man who write for and about black kids (and for white kids, too). https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/28/books/jason-reynolds-look-both-ways.html

Here are ton of others, including Angie Thomas: https://www.usatoday.com/story/entertainment/books/2021/02/19/black-ya-novelists-to-read-angie-thomas-walter-dean-myers-nicola-yoon-tracy-deonn-tomi-adeyemi/4403818001/

These authors are shared and praised by librarians, teachers, and parents all over the country for centering and celebrating diverse perspectives, and their books are intended to be read by YA audiences as young as middle schoolers.

The only people you're gonna find objecting to them with outrage are bigots, parents who wish to bubble and shelter their kids against "other"ness, and prudes.

Enjoy Ghost -- that series is absolutely excellent! My son won a Trivial Pursuit game last week because he got a question right about what the 4th person in a relay race is called. I said "how'd you know that" and he said "from those runner books you got me." Note he didn't say "the black books" or "the condom books" or whatever...he said THE RUNNER BOOKS. Do your kid a favor and check them out.

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