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Diversity in children’s literature was never more important to me than the moment I walked into a Barnes and Nobles and stared at a huge wall display of YA books that was row upon row of pretty white girls. I remembered thinking, dear lord what do all the minority kids think when they see this? How do they feel? That awful feeling of not belonging has never left me and drives me to continue to write and speak out.