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Caroline Richmond

Maryland
As seen in: We Need Diverse Books Blog, The Guardian, The Independent (UK), The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Book Riot, The Lancet, Las Vegas Sun, Writer's Digest, Romper, MDEdge, Kirkus Reviews
Author of The Only Thing to Fear, Live In Infamy, The Great Destroyers, Great or Nothing & more | Rep: @JimMcCarthy528 | I also work at @diversebooks
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4 Reasons We Need Diverse Books-and Why We Need Them Now

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By Caroline Richmond
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When I was in the ninth grade, my English teacher introduced me to a book that would change my life. For one of our units, Mrs. Wilkerson assigned the novel The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan. We only had to read a few specific chapters for our class discussions, but as soon as I opened the book I simply inhaled it. From the very first sentence, it felt as if Tan had peered into my brain and typed up all the tangled emotions that I felt as the daughter of Chinese immigrants in America.
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Announcing the first We Need Diverse Books Day on April 3, 2025!

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By Caroline Richmond
Join us to celebrate the inaugural We Need Diverse Books Day on April 3, 2025! This new holiday was exclusively announced in USA TODAY, which you can check out here. We Need Diverse Books Day was created to commemorate a decade of WNDB’s efforts to diversify the publishing industry. This holiday is intended to highlight the importance of reading books that reflect our beautifully diverse world. To celebrate, we invite you to read and share a diverse book on social media.
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INKFLOWER | Kirkus Reviews

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By Joy McCullough, Caroline Richmond, Tess Sharpe, Jessica Spotswood
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A fictionalized adaptation for teens of the Holocaust survival story Zail shared in her self-published adult memoir, The Tattooed Flower (2006). Switching between Australia in 1982 and Europe during the Holocaust, this work presents two distinct first-person narratives connected by one life. The late-20th-century storyline is a work of shallow realistic fiction about teenage Lisa, whose comfortable life is disrupted when her beloved father is diagnosed with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.
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