2017 Mind the Gap Awards: The books that didn’t win at ALA

by Horn Book
Jun 30, 2017 | Filed in Book Awards


Not all deserving books bring home ALA awards.
The books that didn’t win.

 

  Grounded  

The Airport Book by Lisa Brown

Before Morning by Joyce Sidman,
illustrated by Beth Krommes

 

  
  Left at the altar  

The Best Man by Richard Peck

 

  
  Some oversight!  

Some Writer! by Melissa Sweet

 

  
  Alternative facts?  

The Lie Tree by Frances Hardinge

 

  
  Not this rodeo, pardner  

Presenting Buffalo Bill by Candace Fleming

 

  
  Lightning didn't strike  

Thunder Boy Jr. by Sherman Alexie,
illustrated by Yuyi Morales

 

  
  The day the music died  

Jazz Day by Roxane Orgill,
illustrated by Francis Vallejo

Burn Baby Burn by Meg Medina

 

  
  I thought we were BFFs  

Best Frints in the Whole Universe
by Antoinette Portis

Emma and Julia Love Ballet
by Barbara McClintock

We Found a Hat by Jon Klassen

  


From the July/August 2017 issue of The Horn Book Magazine: Special Issue: ALA Awards. See how The Horn Book reviewed the 2017 Mind the Gap Award recipients here. For more speeches, profiles, and articles click the tag ALA 2017.


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