Winner All My Rage by Sabaa Tahir High School Razorbill/Penguin 384 pp. g 3/22 978-0-593-20234-0 $19.99 e-book ed. 978-0-593-20235-7 $10.99 In this stark and searing sort-of love story, two Pakistani American teens living in a California desert town struggle to choose connection over isolation when family crises strike. Salahudin—artsy, aimless,...
Winner Seen and Unseen: What Dorothea Lange, Toyo Miyatake, and Ansel Adams’s Photographs Reveal About the Japanese American Incarceration by Elizabeth Partridge; illus. by Lauren Tamaki Intermediate, Middle School Chronicle 132 pp. g 10/22 978-1-4521-6510-3 $21.99 Numerous books have been written about the forced removal and imprisonment of Japanese Americans...
Winner I Did It! [I Like to Read: Comics] by Michael Emberley; illus. by the author Preschool, Primary Holiday 40 pp. g 9/22 978-0-8234-4651-3 $14.99 A red-nosed creature wearing a green-and-purple-striped onesie attempts a series of activities: building a tall block tower, climbing a rope and a tree, catching a...
Winner Standing in the Need of Prayer: A Modern Retelling of the Classic Spiritual by Carole Boston Weatherford; illus. by Frank Morrison Primary, Intermediate Crown 32 pp. g 9/22 978-0-593-30634-5 $18.99 Library ed. 978-0-593-30635-2 $21.99 e-book ed. 978-0-593-30636-9 $10.99 This is a moving walk through African...
Winner Freewater by Amina Luqman-Dawson Intermediate, Middle School Little, Brown 416 pp. g 2/22 978-0-316-05661-8 $16.99 e-book ed. 978-0-316-05674-8 $9.99 Many accounts of the Underground Railroad mention that enslaved Blacks would stick close to swamps as they made their way North, as the topography proved problematic for slave catchers. A...
Winner Hot Dog by Doug Salati; illus. by the author Preschool, Primary Knopf 40 pp. g 5/22 978-0-593-30843-1 $17.99 Library ed. 978-0-593-30844-8 $20.99 e-book ed. 978-0-593-30845-5 $10.99 It’s a hot time in the city. A small, low-slung pup greets the morning from the window of a narrow NYC brownstone. But...
Winner Freewater by Amina Luqman-Dawson Intermediate, Middle School Little, Brown 416 pp. g 2/22 978-0-316-05661-8 $16.99 e-book ed. 978-0-316-05674-8 $9.99 Many accounts of the Underground Railroad mention that enslaved Blacks would stick close to swamps as they made their way North, as the topography proved problematic for slave catchers. A...
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