Boo, Katie Woo!
When I was growing up, it was quite a task to find a book series featuring a female protagonist who was not white.  Ramona Quimby, Nancy Drew, the Sweet Valley Twins, 95% of the Babysitters Club, etc. were all white.  They are wonderful books and childre --Substitutes, FTW! blogEarly readers  short chapter books with a limited vocabulary  are hard to write, and Fran Manushkin just clears the bar in this series about Katie Woo, a 6-year-old Chinese-American first-grader and her friends Pedro and JoJo. Tammie Lyons upbeat water --One-Minute Book Reviews blog