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

  • The Lost Dreamer


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


  • An Impossible Thing to Say


  • Frizzy


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


  • Imposter Syndrome and Other Confessions of Alejandra Kim


  • Genesis Begins Again


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


  • Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You


  • We Deserve Monuments


  • This Book is Anti-Racist


  • We Are the Scribes


  • Nubia: Real One


  • Brown Girl Dreaming


  • New Kid


  • This Place is Still Beautiful


  • New Kid


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


  • The 57 Bus


  • Free Lunch


  • Brown Girl Dreaming


  • Run: Book One


  • I'm a Wild Seed


  • The Black Friend: On Being a Better White Person


  • The Lost Dreamer


  • Omar Rising


  • I'm a Wild Seed


  • Warrior Girl Unearthed


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


  • The Black Friend: On Being a Better White Person


  • Bitter Root, Volume 1: Family Business


  • Surviving The City, Vol. 1


  • Harvest House


  • Genesis Begins Again


  • Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky


  • Gone Wolf


  • Omar Rising


  • Displacement


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


  • Pet


  • Displacement


  • This Place is Still Beautiful


  • Warrior Girl Unearthed


  • You Truly Assumed


  • You Truly Assumed


  • Gone Wolf


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


  • Ain't Burned All the Bright


  • How to Be a (Young) Antiracist


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


  • Imposter Syndrome and Other Confessions of Alejandra Kim


  • Fight Back


  • Persepolis


  • Persepolis


  • We Deserve Monuments


  • Take The Mic: Fictional Stories Of Everyday Resistance


  • Fight Back


  • The Lesbiana's Guide to Catholic School


  • An Impossible Thing to Say


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


  • This Book is Anti-Racist


  • The 57 Bus


  • Surviving The City, Vol. 1


  • Felix Ever After


  • We Are the Scribes


  • 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


  • How to Be a (Young) Antiracist


  • The Black Flamingo


  • Free Lunch


  • Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You


  • Frizzy


  • Harvest House


  • The Lesbiana's Guide to Catholic School