Books with diverse lead characters

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Looking for recommendations for favourites books please with diverse characters, particularly boy lead characters.

I've found lots with diverse girl characters but much less with boys.

Any suggestions please?

Good find! Thanks for sharing 👌

My pleasure 😌

Do you have a school library service? If so, I would definitely contact them. Failing that, go to the children's section of the public library and ask to speak to the librarian. I'm in Scotland and have used Scottish Book Trust for ideas.

Wildsmith - Liz Flanagan
Leonora Bolt secret inventor
Toby series by Sally Doherty
Bill’s new frock Anne fine

Lisette Auton is disabled herself and her books have characters with physical disabilities and/or who are ND. My dc have met her a couple of times at signings. What is lovely is that mostly they are characters who just happen to have a disability rather than their disability being the story if that makes sense.

My Name is Leon by Kit de Waal
Curious Incident by Mark Haddon ( I think)
Noughts & Crosses bt Malorie Blackman

There's a Boy in the Girls' Bathroom by Louis Sachar is very good

I have the perfect book! - The unfollow series has a diverse character base!

LGBT, Blind and Deaf, Singaporean, Indian, Old, Young, Scottish, even a Robot called RUDI.

They all fight for different purposes - you can see the character descriptions here!

The book is called The Dark Side of Food and is a graphic novel aiming to educate young people on the use of social media and why we shouldn't trust everything we see but in a creative way!

I would be interested to see what you think?