Books with Diverse Representation
Stories featuring multicultural, LGBTQ+, disability, and neurodivergent representation — mirrors and windows for all readers.
685 books
This collection of 685 books with diverse representation spans picture books through Grade 12. Reading level alone doesn't tell parents whether a book is right for a child — text difficulty and emotional weight grow at different rates, especially for gifted, twice-exceptional, or sensitive readers. HootRated rates every book on this list for both, so you can match to your child's actual readiness on both axes.
Across this list, 73% of titles are rated Gentle or Mild — appropriate for sensitive readers or kids reading ahead of their emotional comfort zone. 4% are rated Intense or Very Intense, with heavier thematic territory for readers ready to tackle weighty subjects. Average content intensity for the list is 1.7/5.
Use the intensity badges (color-coded green → red) to filter by emotional readiness rather than just age. For more on what each intensity level means, see our rating methodology.
Who is coming?
Patricia McKissack
Mary Jackson
Virginia Loh-Hagan Edd
Just a little different
Bonnie Dobkin
Little Giraffe
Lesley Sims
Max Learns Sign Language
Adria F. Klein
Dear You, Dream Big!
Baptiste Paul
Fox Went Out on a Chilly Night
Peter Spier
I Lost My Tooth In Africa
Penda Diakite
Max's Fun Day
Adria F. Klein
My Family Lives Here
Sophie Geister-Jones
One Fine Day (Stories to Go!)
Nonny Hogrogian
Ariel Is Fearless/Jasmine Is Helpful (Disney Princess) (Step into Reading)
Liz Marsham
Max celebrates Cinco de Mayo
Adria F. Worsham
Max goes to the fire station
Adria F. Klein
May I Please Have a Cookie? /¿Me puedes dar una galleta, por favor?
Jennifer E. Morris
My Family Celebrates
Sophie Geister-Jones
Under My Sombrero
Anne E. Schraff
Max goes to the nature center
Adria F. Klein
Little Sister Lozen
June Thiele
Los Tres Cerditos / The Three Little Pigs (Bilingual Tales)
Maria Rius
Max Celebrates Chinese New Year
Adria F. Klein
A man for all seasons
Stephen Krensky
All Because You Matter
Tami Charles
Max celebrates Ramadan
Adria F. Worsham
Not So Fast Songololo
Niki Daly, Narrated by Gcina Mhlope, Music Score by Murray Anderson
Strong
Rob Kearney
The Little Frogs of Puerto Rico
Richard C. Owen Publishers, Incorporated, Sheila Wegryn
Together We Grow
Susan Vaught
Grandfather horned toad
Joe Hayes
Mary Musgrove
Amelia E. Pohl
Prince Fielder
Aidan Francis
Ms. Marvel and the Teleporting Dog
Jim McCann
Margarito's carvings
Shepard Barbash
Max goes to the recycling center
Adria F. Klein
Molly of Denali : little dog lost
Wgbh Kids
Moving Day Helpers
Shiane Salabie
Ramadan
David F. Marx
Dog Watch
C L Reid
My Little Pony
Emily C. Hughes
Stella brings the family
Miriam B. Schiffer
A busy day at Mr. Kang's grocery store
Alice K. Flanagan
Celebrate Children's Day/book day =
Pat Mora
Counting on community
Innosanto Nagara
Four Seasons of Patrick
Susan Hughes
Heartstopper
Alice Oseman
Heather has two mommies
Lesleá Newman
Marigold Mess
Jacqueline Jules
Teacher torture
Alex De Campi
The colors of us
Karen Katz
The inexplicable logic of my life
Benjamin Alire Sáenz
You've Found Oliver
Dustin Thao
Bo and the Little Lie
Elliott Smith
Ghosts in South America
Nicole E. Rodriguez Mata
Pearl
Sherri L Smith
Planets
William B. Rice
Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur (Rookie Read-About Holidays)
David F. Marx
Tell Me a Story, Grandpa (Little Celebration)
Ann Morris
A very special critter
Gina Mayer
Bilingual Fairy Tales Little Red Hen
Carol Ottolenghi
Chef Ki is serving dinner!
Jill Duvall
Everyone Eats
Nancy Allen
Just like Dad
Kim Watson
Kyle's first Kwanzaa
Angela Shelf Medearis
Mission One : the Vice Principal Problem
Kekla Magoon
Peach boy
William H. Hooks
Sammy shrimp
Suzanne Tate
The Cot in the Living Room
Hilda Eunice Burgos
Toy box heroes
Christy Webster
¡Vamos! Let’s Go Eat
Raúl the Third III
A day at an Indian market
Chambers, Catherine
Bilingual Fairy Tales Little Red Riding Hood
Candice Ransom
César Chávez
Stephanie E. Macceca
Kickoff blitz
Blake A. Hoena
La Sirenita / The Little Mermaid (Bilingual Tales)
Editors of Studio Fun International
Little Hawk's new name
Don Bolognese
Lucky
Jane E. Gerver
Ms. Moja makes beautiful clothes
Jill Duvall
The Beauty of Bail
Pearson School
The Sock Thief
Ana Crespo
A visit to the Gravesens' farm
Alice K. Flanagan
Boy trouble
Diana G. Gallagher
Get with the beat!
Laura F. Marsh
Learning is fun with Mrs. Perez
Alice K. Flanagan
Broken Chains (Uptown Downtown Series)
Fearon
Chasing secrets
Gennifer Choldenko
Else-Marie and her seven little daddies
Gabrielle Charbonnet
Explore Australia
Susanne Bushman
I am Helen Keller
Brad Meltzer
Karen's Little Sister
Ann M. Martin
Lions at Lunchtime
Mary Pope Osborne
Mindblind
Jennifer Rozines Roy
Mr. Santizo's tasty treats!
Alice K. Flanagan
Mrs. Scott's beautiful art
Alice K. Flanagan
Painless
S. A. Harazin
Pérez y Martina
Pura Belpré
Sing, little sack!
Nina Jaffe
Straight Out of Brooklyn #1
Saladin Ahmed
The Hundred Dresses (Voyager Books)
Eleanor Estes
The prince and the dressmaker
Jen Wang
Wilma Rudolph Against All Odds
Stephanie Macceca
Beach blues
Diana G. Gallagher
Ciencia en el parque
Sheehan, Thomas F.
Everyone Uses Technology
Colleen Hord
Explore Asia
Susanne Bushman
Ficus: the Exotic Species
Ira Judson Condit
Ms. Marvel, Vol 1.
G. Willow Wilson
Pool problem
Diana G. Gallagher
¡Vamos! Let's Go to the Market
Raúl the Third III
Explore South America
Susanne Bushman
Jump at the Sun
John Kurtz
One Land, Many Cultures
Maureen Picard Robins
Superman
Matthew K. Manning
The Mystery in San Francisco
Gertrude Chandler Warner
Time Quake!
Jared Sams
Winter games
Tim Grundmann
Buffalo Before Breakfast
Mary Pope Osborne
Celebrating birthdays in China
Cheryl L. Enderlein
Explore North America
Susanne Bushman
Horrible Harry and the dragon war
Suzy Kline
Jackie Robinson
April Jones Prince
New Year
Charles C. Hofer
Sold!
Diana G. Gallagher
The three little tamales
Eric A. Kimmel
This Little Explorer
Joan Holub
Amaterasu
Paul D. Storrie
Bad luck bridesmaid
Diana G. Gallagher
Celebrate Chinese New Year with the Fong Family (Stories to Celebrate)
F. Isabel Campoy
Christmas (Rookie Read-About Holidays)
David F. Marx
Christmas in the Philippines
Cheryl L. Enderlein
Games (Around the World)
Margaret C. Hall
High Tide in Hawaii
Mary Pope Osborne
Hired or fired?
Diana G. Gallagher
Late Lunch with Llamas
Mary Pope Osborne
Little One (Cherokee): Be Inventive (Story Keepers, Set I)
Dave Sargent
Little Shaq
Shaquille O'Neal
Martin Luther King Jr
Stephanie Macceca
My Life As a Native American
Ann H. Matzke
The little brown Jay
Elizabeth Claire
Celebrating birthdays in Russia
Cheryl L. Enderlein
Cracking the wall
Eileen Lucas
Engineer Ari and the Hanukkah mishap
Deborah Bodin Cohen
Finding the music
Jennifer Torres
Gabby Torres Gets a Billion Followers
Angela Dominguez
Madeline and the cats of Rome
John Bemelmans Marciano
Marisol
Gary Soto
Michael Vey
Richard Paul Evans
Olympic Games
M. G. Higgins
Openly straight
Bill Konigsberg
Ramadan Cookies
Marzieh A. Ali
Rescue on the Outer Banks
Candice F. Ransom
Something in Between
Melissa De la Cruz
St. Augustine
Frances E. Ruffin
Take me out to the Yakyu
Aaron Meshon
The Adventures of Laura & Jack (Little House Chapter Book)
Laura Ingalls Wilder
The Animals of Antarctica
Tamra B. Orr
The Little Library
Margaret McNamara
The possible
Tara Altebrando
This is how we do it
Matt Lamothe
This is not the Abby show
Debbie Reed Fischer
Tomboy : a graphic memoir
Liz Prince
True letters from a fictional life
Kenneth Logan
Amazon Rainforest
William B. Rice
Bilingual Fairy Tales Three Little Pigs
Patricia Seibert
Madeline and the bad hat
Ludwig Bemelmans
Muntu Warriors Origin Story #2
Beckley
Russia
Susan Heinrichs Gray
Sacagawea
Laura K. Murray
Serafina's promise
Ann E. Burg
Squanto and the first Thanksgiving
Joyce K. Kessel
Tecumseh
Walter LaPlante
Windy Night with Wild Horses
Mary Pope Osborne
Fierce Warriors (Story Keeper Series)
Dave Sargent
Hello, Mallory
Ann M. Martin
I Am Eastern Orthodox (Religions of the World (Rosen Publishing Group).)
Philemon D. Sevastiades
Jo makes a friend
Susan Beth Pfeffer
Joel Embiid
Anthony K. Hewson
Korean Heritage
Tamra B. Orr
Malala Yousafzai
Joan Stoltman
Python
Natalie K. Humphrey
Rhinos (Johnston, Marianne. Giant Animals Series.)
Marianne Johnston
The Panther Mystery
Gertrude Chandler Warner
Beyoncé
E Merwin
Celebra el Año Nuevo Chino con la Familia Fong (Cuentos Para Celebrar / Stories to Celebrate)
F. Isabel Campoy
Cuban Heritage
Tamra B. Orr
Little Audrey
Ruth White
Mexican heritage
Tamra Orr
Muntu Warriors Origin Story #4
Beckley
Popularity Paper Vol. 4
Amy Ignatow
Apache children and elders talk together
E. Barrie Kavasch
Can I Bring Saber to New York, Ms. Mayor?
Lois G. Grambling
Darius the Great Deserves Better
Adib Khorram
Death Valley Desert
William B. Rice
Dutch colonies in the Americas
Lewis K. Parker
Eid Surprises
Marzieh A. Ali
Games We Play
Ellen Lawrence
Guide dogs
McGinty, Alice B.
I live on an island
S. Ward
Indigenous Peoples
Robin Koontz
Jamestown
Frances E. Ruffin
Japan
Lewis K. Parker
Kate
Jean Little
Little Miss Strange
Joanna Rose
Lunar New Year
Susan E Hamen
Madam C.J. Walker (Lives and Times (Des Plaines, Ill.).)
Margaret C. Hall
Rosa Parks
Muriel L. Dubois
Saving Yasha The Incredible True Tale Of An Adopted Moon Bear
Lia Kvatum
Spain
Debbie L. Yanuck
The people of Africa and their food
Ann Burckhardt
Visit Pakistan
Marzieh A. Ali
Canada
Cari Meister
Chinese heritage
Tamra Orr
Filipino heritage
Tamra Orr
Ghetto cowboy
Greg Neri
Kids during the Renaissance
Lisa A. Wroble
Maine
Patricia K. Kummer
Missouri
Patricia K. Kummer
Native American traditions
Sydnie Meltzer Kleinhenz
One true way
Shannon Hitchcock
Si Won's victory
Bill Martin Jr.
Sitting Bull and the Battle of Little Bighorn (Jr. Graphic Biographies)
Gary Jeffrey, Kate Petty
Thief Girl
Ingrid Lee
Armstrong & Charlie
Frank, Steven
Cesar Chavez
Joeming W. Dunn
China's Tianzi Mountain
Debbie Vilardi
Comanche warriors
David Schach
Cuba
Muriel L. Dubois
Laura Ingalls Wilder
Christi E. Parker
Madame C. J. Walker
Sally Ann Lee
Mystery of the Hidden Elves
Gertrude Chandler Warner
Peru
Muriel L. Dubois
Saudi Arabian Heritage
Tamra B. Orr
Scattered dust
Ann E. Burg
Thank You, Baobab Tree!
Mi-hwa Joo
The Animals of Africa
Tamra B. Orr
The Battle of the Little Bighorn
Gary Jeffrey
The mystery of the lost village
Gertrude Chandler Warner
What's Great about Arkansas?
Darice Bailer
Allegedly
Tiffany D. Jackson
California
Dennis B. Fradin
Epileptic
David B.
Hawaii
Patricia K. Kummer
Kids in ancient Greece
Lisa A. Wroble
New Mexico
Judith Bloom Fradin
Slant
Laura E. Williams
To All the Boys I've Loved Before
Jenny Han
Venezuelan Heritage
Tamra Orr
What Lives on a Prairie? (Rosen Publishing Group's Reading Room Collection)
Janey Levy
Zulu warriors
Aaron Trejo
Advice about family
Diana G. Gallagher
Advice about work and play
Diana G. Gallagher
Afghan Heritage
Tamra Orr
An Eye for an Eye
Janet Lorimer
Blackfoot children and elders talk together
E. Barrie Kavasch
Crow children and elders talk together
E. Barrie Kavasch
Dear America:My Heart is on the Ground: the Diary of Nannie Little Rose, a Sioux Girl, Carlisle Indian School, Pennsylvania, 1880
Ann Rinaldi
Giannis Antetokounmpo
Paul D Bowker
Jaguars and other Latin American wild cats
Zella Williams
Life in the Indian Ocean
Nicole K Orr
Lily Vanessa and the Pet Panic
Elaine L. Schulte
Little bear
Cheyenne Cisco
Louisiana
Dennis B. Fradin
North Korea
Susan E. Haberle
Oklahoma
Dennis B. Fradin
Pennsylvania
Dennis B. Fradin
Russian colonies in the Americas
Lewis K. Parker
The Animals of Australia
Nicole Orr
The well
Mildred D. Taylor
Wait for me
An Na
Wyoming
Dennis B. Fradin
A dog called Homeless
Sarah Lean
Alabama
Patricia K. Kummer
Colors of Kenya
Fran Sammis
Guide Dogs
Dale Jones
Martín de Porres
Gary D. Schmidt
Nevada
Dennis B. Fradin
New Jersey
Dennis B. Fradin
North Dakota
Dennis B. Fradin
Real Madrid
Jim Whiting
Tennessee
Dennis B. Fradin
Texas
Dennis B. Fradin
The Masked Prince
Faith Ryan
The Secret of the Mask (Boxcar Children Mysteries)
Gertrude Chandler Warner
What's Great about Alabama?
Jamie Kallio
What's Great about North Dakota?
Darice Bailer
Why German immigrants came to America
Lewis K. Parker
Why Italian immigrants came to America
Lewis K. Parker
A Bear Called Paddington
Michael Bond
Adrian and the Tree of Secrets
Hubert
Alice Austen Lived Here
Alex Gino
An online visit to Australia
Erin M. Hovanec
Arch enemy
Paul Hoblin
Auma's long run
Eucabeth A. Odhiambo
BIRD; TRANS. BY JENNY WANG MEDINA.
CHONG-HUI O
Berry Song
Michaela Goade
Betrayed
Patricia H. Rushford
Child survival under threat
Dominic E. Azuh
Climbing the Stairs
Padma Venkatraman
Connecticut
Dennis B. Fradin
Dear Canada: Orphan at My Door: The Home Child Diary of Victoria Cope, Guelph, Ontario, 1897
Jean Little
Dream on, Amber
Emma Shevah
Evelyn Cisneros
Katherine E. Krohn
Fighting for Dontae
Mike Castan
Freefalling
Shelley Davidow
Green
Laura Peyton Roberts
Halloween
Dorothy Rhodes Freeman, Dianne M. MacMillan
Hei-Tiki Quandary
Madeline King
Helen Keller
Katharine Elliott Wilkie
Holly's secret
Nancy Garden
Hostage to War
Tat'Iana Vasil'Eva
How it feels to have a gay or lesbian parent
Judith E. Snow
I Survived the Nazi Invasion, 1944 (Graphic Novel)
Lauren Tarshis
Ireland
Edward Lengel
Jim & me
Dan Gutman
Just this side of normal
Elizabeth K. Gerlach
Kentucky
Dennis B. Fradin
Kristy Thomas, dog trainer
Ann M. Martin
Lakota Sioux children and elders talk together
E. Barrie Kavasch
Learning about South America
Thomas K. Adamson
Linda Brown, you are not alone
Joyce Carol Thomas
M is for Missouri's rocks and minerals
Judy Oetting
Mary Cassatt (Great Artists)
Joanne Mattern
Mystery at the Calgary Stampede
Gertrude Chandler Warner
Never say die
Will Hobbs
New Mexico
Patricia K. Kummer
Njunjul the sun
Meme McDonald
North Dakota
E. Hoover Severin
Nowhere to Hide
Kim Sigafus
Pieces of the picture
Barbara M. Joosse
Rainforests
Murray, Peter
Six impossible things
Fiona Wood
So Far Bamboo Grove Related Readings Gr7 (The Glencoe literature library)
GLENCOE
Tales From The Arabian Nights
Anupa Lal
Teacher Created Materials - TIME For Kids Informational Text: African Grasslands - Grade 3 - Guided Reading Level O
William B. Rice
Thanksgiving Day (Best Holiday Books Series)
Dennis B. Fradin
The Haitian Americans (The Immigrant Experience)
B. Marvis
The Netherlands (Countries)
Tamara L. Britton
The Star-Touched Queen
Roshani Chokshi
The Storyteller's Candle/La velita de los cuentos
Lucia M. Gonzalez
The Summer of the Swans
Betsy Cromer Byars
The Surrender Tree
Margarita Engle
The Zippity Zinger
Henry Winkler
The bad apple
T. R. Burns
The coyote under the table =
Joe Hayes
The middle passage and the revolt on the Amistad
Susan K. Baumann
Vermont
Patricia K. Kummer
Washington
Dennis B. Fradin
What's Great about New Mexico?
Jenny Fretland VanVoorst
What's Great about Vermont?
Darice Bailer
When Hitler stole Pink Rabbit
Judith Kerr
When we wake
Karen Healey
Why Vietnamese immigrants came to America
Lewis K. Parker
Card Games (Games Around the World)
Dana Meachen Rau
Enrique Iglesias (Young Profiles)
Jill C. Wheeler
Hanukkah
Dennis B. Fradin
Let's meet Frederick Douglass
Lisa Trumbauer
Meet Laurence Yep
McGinty, Alice B.
Service Dogs
Sara Green
Tennessee
Patricia K. Kummer
The Cat King of Havana
Toms Kreicbergs
The war between the classes
Gloria D. Miklowitz
What's Great about Idaho?
Sherra G. Edgar
What's Great about Iowa?
Kristin Marciniak
What's Great about Maine?
Andrea Wang
What's Great about Mississippi?
Anita Yasuda
Bat and the End of Everything
Elana K. Arnold
Cesar Chavez
Tyler Schumacher
Leaving Glorytown
Eduardo F. Calcines
Little Pear and his friends
Eleanor Frances Lattimore
Little women
Louisa May Alcott
Lost and found
Anne E. Schraff
Mary Mcleod Bethune
Lissa Jones Johnston
Melanie and the modeling mess
Elaine L. Schulte
New Hampshire
Dennis B. Fradin
New Hampshire
Patricia K. Kummer
Pictures at the Protest
Steven K Smith
Sacagawea, American pathfinder
Flora Warren Seymour
Seminole children and elders talk together
E. Barrie Kavasch
Shining Prince (Summit Books)
Susan Grohmann
So tall within
Gary D. Schmidt
The summer I wasn't me
Jessica Verdi
Alabama
Dennis B. Fradin
An Online Visit to Asia (Hovanec, Erin M. Internet Field Trips.)
Erin M. Hovanec
Australia
Lewis K. Parker
Canada
Lewis K. Parker
Dust of the earth
Donna L. Hess
Lewis Hamilton
Ryan G. Van Cleave
Life as a Passenger on the Mayflower
MS Laura L Sullivan
Little Firefly
Terri Cohlene
Nevada
Patricia K. Kummer
Scotland
Tamara L. Britton
The Great Barrier Reef
Maura Gouck
The air down here
Gil C. Alicea
The pants project
Cat Clarke
Utah
Patricia K. Kummer
Wheelchair Road Racing (Wheelchair Sports)
James R. Little
Animal Geography (Cover-to-Cover Books)
Joanne Mattern
Animal Geography (Cover-to-Cover Books)
Joanne Mattern
Bubba Wallace
Lisa A. Crayton
Finding my voice
Marie G. Lee
Indian Ocean
John F. Prevost
Little Bit of Spectacular
Gin Phillips
Living With Cystic Fibrosis (Living Well Chronic Conditions)
Susan Heinrichs Gray
Meet Jessica Long
Hill, Anne E.
Miles Morales
Jason Reynolds
Samurai Warriors
Lois Sepahban
The jungle book
Rudyard Kipling
Wilma Rudolph
Maria Isabel Sanchez Vegara
Zuni children and elders talk together
E. Barrie Kavasch
A primary source guide to Argentina
Leslie C. Kaplan
Becoming Prince Charming
Loren Bailey
Circle of secrets
Kimberley Griffiths Little
Found
Margaret Peterson Haddix
My lost and found life
Melodie Bowsher
North Dakota
Patricia K. Kummer
North Korea (Countries)
Tamara L. Britton
Peril at the top of the world
James Patterson, Chris Grabenstein
South Dakota
Patricia K. Kummer
The art of Native American turquoise jewelry
Ann Stalcup
A little piece of ground
Elizabeth Laird
American Betiya
Anuradha D. Rajurkar
Aztec Warriors
Valerie Bodden
Diamonds in the shadow
Caroline B. Cooney
Idaho
Patricia K. Kummer
Kiss the dust
Elizabeth Laird
Prince across the water
Jane Yolen
Second chance
L. Divine
The deadly curse of Toco-Rey
Frank E. Peretti
Why Japanese immigrants came to America
Lewis K. Parker
Cathy's ring
Sean Stewart
Helen Keller
María Isabel Sánchez Vegara
Loretta Little Looks Back
Andrea Davis Pinkney
Mary Ingalls on Her Own (Little House)
Elizabeth Cody Kimmel
Ten of the best prince and princess stories
West, David
The Lightning Queen
Laura Resau
The fight
L. Divine
Washington, D.C.
Patricia K. Kummer
A Snake Falls to Earth
Darcie Little Badger
Aretha Franklin
María Isabel Sánchez Vegara
Christmas
Dennis B. Fradin
Frederick Douglass
George Edward Stanley
Georgia
Dennis B. Fradin
Into wild Australia.
Jeff Corwin, Blackbirch Press
Switzerland
Pamela K. Harris
The Wampanoags
Alice K. Flanagan
Carlos Montezuma
Peter Iverson
Colors of Israel (Colors of the World)
Laurie Grossman
Disabled dogs
Meish Goldish
Dust from old bones
Sandra Forrester
Oklahoma
Patricia K. Kummer
Rise of the Black Lives Matter Movement
Samantha S. Bell
Sports great Hakeem Olajuwon
Ron Knapp
The Shawnee
Alice K. Flanagan
Time For Kids
Editors Of Time For Kids
Welcome to Switzerland (Welcome to the World)
Pamela K. Harris
Wild Amazon
Lisa L. Ryan-Herndon
African-American inventors III
Susan K. Henderson
Buffalo Bird Girl
S. D. Nelson
Carlos is gonna get it
Kevin Emerson
Cherokee
Anne M. Todd
Courtin' Jayd
L. Divine
Falling over sideways
Jordan Sonnenblick
Illegal immigrants
Gail Stewart
In an Egyptian City (Child's Day)
Khaled Eldash
Invaded
Melissa Landers
Little house in the Highlands
Melissa Wiley
Nelson Mandela
María Isabel Sánchez Vegara
Phantom Enchantment
Eve Marie Mont
Red Butterfly
A.L. Sonnichsen
Sally Hemings
Frances E. Ruffin
Team Sports of the Summer Games
Aaron Derr
The mitten string
Jennifer Rosner
Things Fall Apart
Chinua Achebe
Beyond the heather hills
Melissa Wiley
For a horse and other selections by Newbery authors
Martin Harry Greenberg, Charles Gordon Waugh
Grand Canyon
Linda Vieira
Influenced
Sarah Darer Littman, Cindy L Otis
Life With Type 1 Diabetes
Clara Maccarald
Little soldier
Bernard Ashley
Sports great Tiger Woods
Glen Macnow
The elderly
Gail Stewart
To Kill a Mockingbird
Harper Lee
Ultimate Field Trip 2
Susan E. Goodman
What elephants know
Eric Dinerstein
Children of the Philippines
Sheila Kinkade
Goats of Hockey
Anthony K. Hewson
Llamas and the Andes : A Nonfiction Companion to Magic Tree House #34
Mary Pope Osborne
Roll of thunder, hear my cry
Mildred D. Taylor
Sour Land (Harper Trophy Books)
William H. Armstrong
The Jeff Corwin Experience - Into Wild Indonesia (The Jeff Corwin Experience)
Jeff Corwin
What Is the Civil Rights Movement?
Sherri L. Smith
A Little Tiger in the Chinese Night
Song Nan Zhang
Cold as ice
L. Divine
Colors of Ghana
Holly Littlefield
Colors of Mexico
Lynn Ainsworth Olawsky
Feed the Children First
Mary E. Lyons
Misty Copeland
Heather E. Schwartz
Sports great Jim Abbott
Jeff Savage
Sports of the Paralympic Games
Aaron Derr
The secret of the Desert Stone
Frank E. Peretti
Culture Clash
L. Divine
Lightning Rider (Sidestreets)
Jacqueline Guest
Michelle Obama
Tamra B. Orr
What's racism?
Amy B. Rogers
A day with a Chumash
Georgia Lee
All frontiers are jealous
L. Ron Hubbard
Alligator bayou
Donna Jo Napoli
Amil and the After
Veera Hiranandani
Badger on the Barge
Janni Howker
Clara Callan
Richard Bruce Wright
Crossing the wire
Will Hobbs
DAUGHTER OF THE KILLING FIELDS: ASREI'S STORY.
THEARY C. SENG
Dragonwings
Laurence Yep
Dream on, Amber (reissue)
Emma Shevah
Emily for Real
Sylvia Gunnery
Frizzy
Claribel A. Ortega
Goats of Soccer
Anthony K. Hewson
Heart
Lexi Harris
Isaiah Dunn Is My Hero
Kelly J. Baptist
Kendra
Coe Booth
Kendrick Lamar: Platinum Rap Artist
Heather E. Schwartz
Little Cricket
Jackie Brown
Malcolm X
Walter Dean Myers
Moon at nine
Deborah Ellis
Mukhtar's Children
Sally Watson
Outsider Kids
Betty C. Tang
Paul Robeson
Joseph Dorinson, William Pencak
Rites of Passage
Quentin Beresford, Paul Omaji
Sacagawea
Nicole K. Orr
The Good Braider
Terry Farish
The Magic Fish
Trung Le Nguyen
The Zunis
Alice K. Flanagan
The dream of water
Kyoko Mori
US Women's National Soccer Team
Heather E. Schwartz
Village by the Sea
Anita Desai
Zara Hossain Is Here
Sabina Khan
Great African Americans in history
Carlotta Hacker
John Boyega
Tamra B Orr
So, so hood
L. Divine
The South Carolina colony
Jean F. Blashfield
Albert Pujols: A Baseball Star Who Cares (Sports Stars Who Care)
Jeff C. Young
Everglades (Walk on the Wild Side: America's National Parks)
Tamra Orr
Infandous
Elana K. Arnold
People with AIDS
Gail Stewart
The Little Rock Nine
Jake Miller
The orphan trains
Alice K. Flanagan
Tiger Woods
Michael E. Goodman
A Whole New League
Wayne L Wilson
Sports great Michael Chang
Christin Ditchfield
Stones For My Father
Trilby Kent
Alexandra Scott
Gail B. Stewart
Great African Americans in literature
Pat Rediger
Prince
Eric Braun
The Bane Chronicles
Cassandra Clare
Absolute brightness
James Lecesne
Angel Island
Alice K. Flanagan
Boca Juniors
Jim Whiting
Day With a Pueblo (Day With)
Tito Naranjo
Little Crow: Taoyateduta
Gwenyth Swain
Louisiana
Rita LaDoux
Plateau Indians
Christin Ditchfield
Prince Harry and Meghan
Jill Sherman
The House of Djinn
Suzanne Fisher Staples
The musician's daughter
Susanne Emily Dunlap
Whatever
S. J. Goslee
Flamengo
Jim Whiting
Patriot School
Alan B. Boyer, Perfection Learning Corporation
This vast land
Stephen E. Ambrose
Bangladesh
Tamra B. Orr
Discovering Mission San Gabriel Arcangel
Madeline Stevens
Discovering Mission Santa Cruz
Sofia Nuñes
Emmanuel Osofu Yeboah
L. K. Currie-McGhee
Fat Joe
Toby G. Hamilton
Great African Americans in film
Janice Parker
Mission Santa Inés
Jacqueline Ching
River Plate
Jim Whiting
Sports great Tim Duncan
John Albert Torres
A Cheyenne (Day With)
Franco Meli
Italy
King, David C.
Kamala Harris
Heather E. Schwartz
We the People! (Big Ideas That Changed the World #4)
Don Brown
Great African Americans in business
Pat Rediger
Inuits
Judith E. Harper
Matt Dalio
Michael V. Uschan
Times Square
Ann E. Burg
A Scatter of Light
Malinda Lo
Bindi
Paul Matthew Maisano
Discovering Mission San Juan Capistrano
Jeannette Buckley
Discovering Mission San Rafael Arcángel
Jack Connelly
Discovering Mission Santa Clara de Asis
Sofia Nuñes
Don't Let the Forest In
CG Drews
Energy Sources
Karen E. Bledsoe, Perfection Learning Corporation
Esperanza rising
Pam Muñoz Ryan
Explorers of the South Pacific
Daniel E. Harmon
Far from the tree
Robin Benway
From an Idea to Lego
Lowey Bundy Sichol
Heidi
Johanna Spyri
Henry Hamlet's Heart
Rhiannon Wilde
Hot Dog Girl
Jennifer Dugan
If I Was Your Girl
Meredith Russo
Jackie Robinson
Irwin B. Bergman
Parker Inheritance
Varian Johnson
Postcards from no man's land
Aidan Chambers
Social Intercourse
Greg Howard
The Traitor: Golden Mountain Chronicles
Laurence Yep
The upside of unrequited
Becky Albertalli
Theft of the Ruby Lotus
Sayantani DasGupta
We Are Not from Here
Jenny Torres Sanchez
A day with a noblewoman
Régine Pernoud
England
Jean F. Blashfield
Remember Little Bighorn
Paul Robert Walker
Cameroon
Patricia K. Kummer
Coping as a biracial/biethnic teen
Renea D. Nash
Discovering Mission San Diego de Alcala
Sam Hamilton
Discovering Mission San Juan Bautista
Madeline Stevens
Discovering Mission Santa Ines
Sofia Nuñes
Ice Cube
Toby G. Hamilton
Iowa
Jean F. Blashfield
Italy
Jean F. Blashfield
Parallel journeys
Eleanor H. Ayer
Discovering Mission San Francisco de Asis
Oscar Cantillo
Discovering Mission San Francisco de Solano
Oscar Cantillo
Discovering Mission San José
Madeline Stevens
Discovering Mission San Luis Obispo de Tolosa
Jeannette Buckley
Discovering Mission San Miguel Arcángel
Jack Connelly
Florida
Tamra Orr
Japanese-American internment in American history
David K. Fremon
Minnesota
Judy L. Hasday
Mission San Buenaventura
Amy Margaret
Mission San José
Amy Margaret
Mission of San Luis Obispo de Tolosa
Kathleen J. Edgar
Santas from around the world
George Ouwendijk
Argentina
Jean F. Blashfield
Australia
Jean F. Blashfield
Busta Rhymes
Toby G. Hamilton
Discovering Mission San Buenaventura
Sam Hamilton
Discovering Mission San Fernando Rey de Espana
Oscar Cantillo
Panama
Jean F. Blashfield
The Jim Crow Laws and Racism in American History
David K. Fremon
Discovering Mission La Purisima Concepción
Zachary Anderson
Discovering Mission Santa Barbara
Jack Connelly
Fighting for Reproductive Justice
Ngeri Nnachi
Maryland
Jean F. Blashfield
The Battle of the Little Bighorn (Essential Events Set 2)
Marty Gitlin
The Great Barrier Reef
Peggy J. Parks
Uniquely Arkansas
Michael B. Dougan
Aboriginal art of Australia
Carol Finley
Helen Keller
Carin T. Ford
Korea
Patricia K. Kummer
Ireland
Jean F. Blashfield
Mission Santa Bárbara
Amy Margaret
The Grand Canyon
Stuart A. Kallen
The Abenaki
Elaine Landau
W.E.B. Du Bois
Mark Rowh
Immigration and Refugees
Heather C. Hudak
Mission San Carlos Borromeo del Río Carmelo
Kathleen J. Edgar
Oklahoma
Tamra B. Orr
Cry Korea cry
Ty Pak
Each of Us a Desert
Mark Oshiro
Egg and Spoon
Gregory Maguire
Indivisible
Daniel Aleman
Last Night at the Telegraph Club
Malinda Lo
Never Let Me Go
Kazuo Ishiguro
On a sunbeam
Tillie Walden
Outcasts United
Warren St. John
Pedro & Daniel
Federico Erebia
White Gardenia
Belinda Alexandra
Germany
Jean F. Blashfield
Teen fathers
Lang, Paul
Wisconsin
Jean F. Blashfield
Albania
David K. Wright
North American Indian
David Murdoch
The Civil Rights Movement Revisited
Patrick B. Miller, Therese Frey Steffen, Elisabeth Schäfer-Wünsche
The many faces of Josephine Baker
Peggy Caravantes
Christopher Reeve
Margaret L. Finn
The Last Stand
Nathaniel Philbrick
Australia
John F. Grabowski
National flags
Dwayne E. Pickels
Love and hate in Jamestown
Price, David
African American civil rights movement
World Book, Inc
South Korea
Jean Kinney Williams
Canada
John F. Grabowski
Somalia
Salome Nnoromele
Spain
John F. Grabowski
Forbidden love
Gary B. Nash
Latinos in the struggle for equal education
James D. Cockcroft
Questions parents ask about this list
- What's on this books with diverse representation list?
- Books with Diverse Representation contains 685 books spanning picture books through Grade 12. Stories featuring multicultural, LGBTQ+, disability, and neurodivergent representation — mirrors and windows for all readers. Every book on the list is rated for reading level and content intensity so you can pick what matches your child.
- What age range is appropriate for this list?
- Books on this list span picture books through Grade 12. 498 books (73%) are rated Gentle or Mild; 28 (4%) are rated Intense or Very Intense. Average intensity is 1.7/5. Match the intensity badge to your child's emotional readiness.
- How is this list curated?
- HootRated rates every book on this list for both reading level (text difficulty) and content intensity (emotional weight) — the two axes parents need to choose books. See our methodology for how books make a curated list.