This Place is Still Beautiful

XiXi Tian
(Young Adult Fiction - Y Tian)

Margaret looks just like their mother, while Annalie passes for white and looks like the father who abandoned them years ago, leaving their Chinese immigrant mama to raise the girls alone in their small, predominantly white Midwestern town. When their house is vandalized with a shocking racial slur, Margaret expects outrage. Instead, her sister and mother would rather move on. Especially once Margaret's own investigation begins to make members of their community uncomfortable.


Antiracist Books for Teens

  • Take The Mic: Fictional Stories Of Everyday Resistance


  • New Kid


  • Harvest House


  • Call Him Jack: The Story of Jackie Robinson, Black Freedom Fighter


  • The Racial Trauma Handbook for Teens: CBT Skills to Heal from the Personal and Intergenerational Trauma of Racism


  • Ain't Burned All the Bright


  • Pet


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  • We Are the Scribes


  • Brown Girl Dreaming


  • Persepolis


  • Warrior Girl Unearthed


  • The Black Flamingo


  • Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky


  • You Truly Assumed


  • Nubia: Real One


  • I'm a Wild Seed


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  • Frizzy


  • Imposter Syndrome and Other Confessions of Alejandra Kim


  • Imposter Syndrome and Other Confessions of Alejandra Kim


  • Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You


  • How to Be a (Young) Antiracist


  • The Lost Dreamer


  • Well-Read Black Girl: Finding Our Stories, Discovering Ourselves


  • Gone Wolf


  • New Kid


  • Everything You Wanted to Know about Indians But Were Afraid to Ask


  • The Lesbiana's Guide to Catholic School


  • Omar Rising


  • Gone Wolf


  • Felix Ever After


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  • Fight Back


  • Fight Back


  • How to Be a (Young) Antiracist


  • Genesis Begins Again


  • Displacement


  • We Deserve Monuments


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  • The 57 Bus


  • I'm a Wild Seed


  • Everything You Wanted to Know about Indians But Were Afraid to Ask


  • Bitter Root, Volume 1: Family Business


  • This Book is Anti-Racist


  • This Place is Still Beautiful


  • An Impossible Thing to Say


  • Revolution in Our Time: The Black Panther Party's Promise to the People


  • You Truly Assumed


  • Call Him Jack: The Story of Jackie Robinson, Black Freedom Fighter


  • Surviving The City, Vol. 1


  • The Black Friend: On Being a Better White Person


  • The Lost Dreamer


  • Frizzy


  • Surviving The City, Vol. 1


  • Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You


  • Revolution in Our Time: The Black Panther Party's Promise to the People


  • Genesis Begins Again


  • Free Lunch


  • Harvest House


  • The Lesbiana's Guide to Catholic School


  • Warrior Girl Unearthed


  • Well-Read Black Girl: Finding Our Stories, Discovering Ourselves


  • The 57 Bus


  • Run: Book One


  • The Racial Trauma Handbook for Teens: CBT Skills to Heal from the Personal and Intergenerational Trauma of Racism


  • Take The Mic: Fictional Stories Of Everyday Resistance


  • Brown Girl Dreaming


  • We Are the Scribes


  • The Black Friend: On Being a Better White Person


  • Persepolis


  • Displacement


  • We Deserve Monuments