Books in the Children & Youth Diversity and Health Literature Collection include Baby's Song; The Little Yellow Bottle; Hurricane Child; The Degenerates; Bronze and Sunflower; You Can Become a Doctor, Too; Open Science; Light and Air; Schomburg: The Man Who Built a Library; We Are All Human; A History of Me; Masked Hero; Felix Ever After; Little & Lion; Sad About Sammy; Your Treasure Hunt; Benny Doesn't Like to Be Hugged; I Promise; As Brave As You; Bird; The Quickest Kid in Clarksville; and Rosie Revere, Engineer.

 

The Children & Youth Diversity and Health Literature (CYDHL) Collection offers children’s and young adult books featuring a diverse range of characters: pioneers in medicine, children who are experiencing illness, and youth that are exploring topics that affect health (such as identity formation or experiences of discrimination). 

The collection highlights characters, both real and imagined, who belong to groups that have been historically marginalized (whether due to race, ethnicity, ability, neurocognition, gender, sexual orientation, or socioeconomic status).

We encourage you to browse, borrow, and read these titles with the young people in your life! Reading about others’ experiences helps broaden understanding, build empathy, and can inspire a lifelong love of reading.

The CYDHL Collection can be found on the 1st Floor of Countway Library near the South elevators. You can browse the collection in HOLLIS using the following link: Countway CYDHL Collection.