EVERYTHING EVER WRITTEN BY MELISSA LUCASHENKO I DON'T CARE IF THEY'RE HARD TO TRACK DOWN SHE IS THE MOST AWESOME WRITER IN THE WORLD OMG.
Back cover blurb: 'Melissa Lucashenko can write about the hard stuff in a way that makes you feel glad to be alive'. So not exactly fluffy, but not depressing, either.
Titles: Hard Yards (not half-girl, but female author and lots of girls in), Killing Darcy (ditto - I wonder why she likes the boy POV so much?), Too Flash (all about girls).
One of the girls in the Sisterhood of the Travelling Pants books (Anne Brashares) is a POC, and those are fluffy liek whoa, I love them.
I'm guessing you've read Come a Stranger by Cynthia Voigt already? if not, I think it pretty much fits your requirements entirely.
I haven't seen Nobody's Family is Going to Change by Louise Fitzhugh on anyone's list, I don't think, and it's one of my favourite books of all time. Got me through my adolescence. (Another one with 'difficult themes' but which ends up making you feel better about everything; I think apart from being fluffy, it fits your five requirements perfectly.)
I think Helen in Homeward Bounders (Diana Wynne Jones) is nonwhite in skin colour, but it's a multiworld fantasy novel and it's sort of hard to tell whether she 'counts' as a POC or not. You should read it anyway though... Okay, now I'm reaching, I'm going to stop and read other people's comments!
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Fri, Jan. 18th, 2008 12:44 pm (UTC)EVERYTHING EVER WRITTEN BY MELISSA LUCASHENKO I DON'T CARE IF THEY'RE HARD TO TRACK DOWN SHE IS THE MOST AWESOME WRITER IN THE WORLD OMG.
Back cover blurb: 'Melissa Lucashenko can write about the hard stuff in a way that makes you feel glad to be alive'. So not exactly fluffy, but not depressing, either.
Titles: Hard Yards (not half-girl, but female author and lots of girls in), Killing Darcy (ditto - I wonder why she likes the boy POV so much?), Too Flash (all about girls).
One of the girls in the Sisterhood of the Travelling Pants books (Anne Brashares) is a POC, and those are fluffy liek whoa, I love them.
I'm guessing you've read Come a Stranger by Cynthia Voigt already? if not, I think it pretty much fits your requirements entirely.
I haven't seen Nobody's Family is Going to Change by Louise Fitzhugh on anyone's list, I don't think, and it's one of my favourite books of all time. Got me through my adolescence. (Another one with 'difficult themes' but which ends up making you feel better about everything; I think apart from being fluffy, it fits your five requirements perfectly.)
I think Helen in Homeward Bounders (Diana Wynne Jones) is nonwhite in skin colour, but it's a multiworld fantasy novel and it's sort of hard to tell whether she 'counts' as a POC or not. You should read it anyway though... Okay, now I'm reaching, I'm going to stop and read other people's comments!