Diversity in young adult fiction

Summary

In the United States, young adult fiction and children's literature in general have historically shown a lack of identity diversity, that is, a lack of books with a main character who is, for example, a person of color, from the LGBTQIA+ community, or disabled. The number of children's book authors has shown a similar lack of diversity. In the mid-2010s, more attention was drawn to this problem from various quarters. In the several years following, diversity numbers seem to have improved: One survey showed that in 2017, a quarter of children's books were about minority protagonists, almost a 10 percent increase from 2016.