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In case you missed it: the 2024 Children's Literature Lecture Host Site Application is now live! The ALSC Children's Literature Lecture* is "an annual event featuring an author, critic, librarian, historian, or teacher of children’s literature, of any country, who shall prepare a paper considered to be a significant contribution to...
Welcome to our stop on the Sydney Taylor Book Award blog tour! Author Sacha Lamb was kind enough to answer my questions about When the Angels Left the Old Country just hours after the book won the STBA’s Gold Medal in the Young Adult category...and some other major accolades. The...
The most prestigious honors in children’s literature, the Newbery and Caldecott medals, were awarded to Amina Luqman-Dawson for Freewater and Doug Salati for Hot Dog on January 30, 2023, at the American Library Association’s virtual LibLearnX. Also announced at the gathering were the winners of the Coretta Scott King, Pura...
Alex Award [for the ten best adult books that appeal to teen audiences] A Lady's Guide to Fortune-Hunting by Sophie Irwin (Pamela Dorman/Penguin Random House) Babel, Or the Necessity of Violence: An Arcane History of the Oxford Translators' Revolution by R. F. Kuang (Harper Voyager/HarperCollins*) I'm Glad My Mom...
Winner Burn Down, Rise Up by Vincent Tirado High School Sourcebooks Fire 352 pp. g 5/22 978-1-7282-4600-0 $18.99 In this horror novel grounded in a real-world setting, sixteen-year-old Raquel’s life is upended when her friend disappears — part of a pattern of unexplained disappearances — and her mother is...
Winner Where Wonder Grows by Xelena González; illus. by Adriana M. Garcia Primary Cinco Puntos/Lee & Low 40 pp. 10/22 9781947627468 $17.95 e-book ed 9781947627475 $17.95 REVIEW TO COME Honor Books Phenomenal AOC: The Roots and Rise of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez by Anika Aldamuy...
Winner Frizzy by Claribel A. Ortega; illus. by Rose Bousamra Intermediate First Second 224 pp. g 10/22 978-1-250-25962-2 $21.99 Paper ed. 978-1-250-25963-9 $12.99 In a graphic novel that takes on antiblackness and colorism, every Sunday Marlene must sit for hours at the beauty salon while her...
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...
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