The American Library Association has announced the 2022 Youth Media Awards. These awards celebrate the top books and media for children and young adults, including the Caldecott, Newbery, and Printz Medals. Below is a full list of this year's honor and award books. For more information about these awards, check out the ALA's press release.
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Feeling disconnected from her heritage as the only Indian-American student in her community, young Reha commits herself to a future different from her dreams when her mother becomes dangerously ill. |
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Nina is a Lipan girl in our world. She's always felt there was something more out there. She still believes in the old stories. Oli is a cottonmouth kid, from the land of spirits and monsters. Like all cottonmouths, he's been cast from home. He's found a new one on the banks of the bottomless lake. Nina and Oli have no idea the other exists. But a catastrophic event on Earth, and a strange sickness that befalls Oli's best friend, will drive their worlds together in ways they haven't been in centuries. And there are some who will kill to keep them apart. |
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In the summer before middle school, eleven-year-old Bug must contend with best friend Moira suddenly caring about clothes, makeup, and boys; a ghost haunting; and the truth about Bug's gender identity. |
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Watercress by Andrea Wang Newbery Honor, Caldecott Medal, Asian/Pacific American Award for Literature Picture Book Award A little girl traveling through Ohio in an old car helps her family collect muddy, snail-covered watercress from a ditch in the wild before learning the story of her immigrant heritage and how foraging for fresh food helps her loved ones stay together. Illustrations. |
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Había una vez...There lived a girl named Petra Peña, who wanted nothing more than to be a storyteller, like her abuelita. But Petra's world is ending. Earth has been destroyed by a comet, and only a few hundred scientists and their children--among them Petra and her family--have been chosen to journey to a new planet. They are the ones who must carry on the human race. Hundreds of years later, Petra wakes to this new planet--and the discovery that she is the only person who remembers Earth. A sinisterCollective has taken over the ship during its journey, bent on erasing the sins of humanity's past. They have systematically purged the memories of all aboard--or purged them altogether. Petra alone now carries the stories of our past, and with them, anyhope for our future. Can she make them live again? |
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A deceptively profound examination of the vital relationship between childhood and the outdoors finds a young person experiencing a flower with all five senses before using mindful new perceptions to observe more of the beautiful natural world. |
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A heartwarming celebration of self-confidence and taking a leap of faith depicts an endearing, courageous kingfisher who falls down, down, down before learning to fly up, up, up. By the Geisel Award-winning creator of Fox the Tiger. |
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Unspeakable : the Tulsa Race Massacre by Carole Boston Weatherford Caldecott Honor, Coretta Scott King Author Award, Coretta Scott King Illustrator Award, Robert F. Sibert Informational Book Honor Celebrated author Carole Boston Weatherford and illustrator Floyd Cooper provide a powerful look at the 1921 Tulsa race massacre, one of the worst incidents of racial violence in our nation's history. |
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Two curious children go for a walk, asking imaginative questions about the natural beauty that surrounds them. |
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Newbery Honor, Caldecott Medal, Asian/Pacific American Award for Literature Picture Book Award A little girl traveling through Ohio in an old car helps her family collect muddy, snail-covered watercress from a ditch in the wild before learning the story of her immigrant heritage and how foraging for fresh food helps her loved ones stay together. Illustrations. |
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A novel in verse follows the experiences of a misfit teen in a discriminatory suburban community who questions her mixed heritage before unexpected family revelations force her to fight for her own identity. By the award-winning author of The January Children. |
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Coretta Scott King Author Honor, Printz Honor In this comprehensive, inspiring, and all-too-relevant history of the Black Panther Party, Kekla Magoon introduces readers to the Panthers' community activism, grounded in the concept of self-defense, which taught Black Americans how to protect and support themselves in a country that treated them like second-class citizens. |
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This beautifully illustrated, powerful tribute recounts the journey of African descendants in America by connecting their history to the seven principles of Kwanzaa. |
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Unspeakable : the Tulsa Race Massacre by Carole Boston Weatherford Caldecott Honor, Coretta Scott King Author Award, Coretta Scott King Illustrator Award, Robert F. Sibert Informational Book Honor Celebrated author Carole Boston Weatherford and illustrator Floyd Cooper provide a powerful look at the 1921 Tulsa race massacre, one of the worst incidents of racial violence in our nation's history. |
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Revealing and defining, this picture book biography tells the story of little Eunice Kathleen Waymon who, after becoming the acclaimed singer Nina Simone, used her voice for powerful protest in the fight against racial inequality and discrimination. |
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The late Civil Rights attorney and activist shares a poignant moment from her childhood beside her wise grandmother, who taught Roundtree the values of self-worth, strength and justice that inspired the co-author’s boundary-breaking career. |
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While he is at Granny’s on a Sunday, the narrator helps cook the family meal and even contributes his own sweet surprise, in this loving celebration of food, traditions and gathering together at the table. |
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Unspeakable : the Tulsa Race Massacre by Carole Boston Weatherford Caldecott Honor, Coretta Scott King Author Award, Coretta Scott King Illustrator Award, Robert F. Sibert Informational Book Honor Celebrated author Carole Boston Weatherford and illustrator Floyd Cooper provide a powerful look at the 1921 Tulsa race massacre, one of the worst incidents of racial violence in our nation's history. |
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Me (Moth) by Amber McBride Coretta Scott King/John Steptoe New Talent Author Award, William C. Morris Award Finalist Moth, who lost her family in an accident, and Sani, who is battling ongoing depression, take a road trip that has them chasing ghosts and searching for ancestors, which helps them move forward in surprising, powerful and unforgettable ways. |
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The me I choose to be by Natasha Tarpley Coretta Scott King/John Steptoe New Talent Illustrator Award This joyful ode to the power of potential is an immersive call for self-love and highlights the inherent beauty of all Black and Brown children. |
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A gang leader’s son finds his effort to go straight for the sake of his child challenged by a loved one’s brutal murder, in a poignant exploration of Black coming-of-age set 17 years before the events of the award-winning The Hate U Give. |
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Last night at the Telegraph Club by Malinda Lo Printz Honor, Stonewall Young Adult Literature Award, Asian/Pacific American Award for Literature Youth Literature Award With the threat of deportation looming over her father--in spite of his hard-won citizenship and disavowal of Communism--seventeen-year-old American-born Chinese Lily Hu pursues a relationship with her Caucasian classmate Kath. |
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Revolution in Our Time : The Black Panther Party’s Promise to the People
by Kekla Magoon Coretta Scott King Author Honor, Printz Honor In this comprehensive, inspiring, and all-too-relevant history of the Black Panther Party, Kekla Magoon introduces readers to the Panthers' community activism, grounded in the concept of self-defense, which taught Black Americans how to protect and support themselves in a country that treated them like second-class citizens. |
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A debut novel-in-verse follows the experiences of a girl who tries to change her behavior when she is bullied for her weight, before a swimming hobby, a kind therapist and an accepting new neighbor help her embrace her true self. |
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Firekeeper's daughter by Angeline Boulley Printz Award, William C. Morris Award, American Indian Youth Literature Young Adult Honor Treated like an outsider in both her hometown and on the Ojibwe reservation, a half-Native American science geek and star hockey player places her dreams on hold in the wake of a family tragedy. A first novel. |
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The author/illustrator shares his challenges growing up being a slow reader and how he learned to accept the fact that everyone does things in their own unique way, which helped him become the awesome storyteller he is today! |
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A sky-blue bench by Bahram Rahman Schneider Family Book Honor for Young Children A young Afghani amputee matter-of-factly removes her own barrier to education, building a bench from discarded wood so that she and her "helper-leg" can sit through school in comfort. |
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My City Speaks by Darren Lebeuf Schneider Family Book Award for Young Children In this charming ode to city life, a visually impaired young girl travels around the city she loves, enjoying all it has to offer. |
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While leading a double life as Stuntboy, who secretly keeps all the other superheroes super safe, Portico Reeve tries to keep his parents’ marriage together, deal with his anxiety and an enemy who vows to prove there is nothing super about him. |
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A kind of spark by Elle McNicoll Schneider Family Book Honor for Middle Grade When she discovers that her small Scottish town used to burn witches simply because they were different, a neurodivergent girl who sees and hears things others cannot refuses to let them be forgotten. |
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A bird will soar by Alison Green Myers Schneider Family Book Award for Middle Grade After a tornado, Axel, who loves birds, finds an injured eaglet, and helps to rescue it--and also helps to resolve the problems in his broken family, and draw his father back home. |
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A face for Picasso : coming of age with Crouzon syndrome by Ariel Henley Schneider Family Book Honor for Teens The first known identical twins to survive Crouzon syndrome, Ariel and Zan underwent many appearance-altering procedures, in this memoir in which Ariel explores identity and beauty, and the strength it takes to put your life, and yourself, back together time and time again. |
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Near-future Australia is controlled by Organicore, a company that produces the "perfectly balanced" synthetic meals that have all but replaced wild food, but Piper McBride, sixteen, deaf, and cued white, begins to wonder if wild food is as dangerous as Organicore's propaganda says. |
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A beautiful, candid picture book for children to understand what happens when a loved one begins suffering from dementia, and how best to care for them. |
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In the meadow of fantasies by Hāmid Muhammadī Mildred L. Batchelder Honor A young, bedridden girl spends her day watching a mobile of spinning horses and uses her imagination to give the seven horses life in a fantasy world. |
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The most beautiful story by Brynjulf Jung Tjønn Mildred L. Batchelder Honor Late at night, Vera runs to the pond where mysterious, blue-haired Syl tells a wonderful story to bring Vera's little brother, Salandar, back to life again. |
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Mildred L. Batchelder Honor |
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The sea-ringed world : sacred stories of the Americas by María García Esperón Mildred L. Batchelder Honor Presents a collection of stories from nations and cultures across our two continents, the Sea-Ringed World, as the Aztecs called it, from the edge of Argentina all the way up to Alaska. |
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Temple alley summer
by Sachiko Kashiwaba Mildred L. Batchelder Award |
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Lively and colorful with a read-aloud beat, this picture book celebrates the rich culture of the Boogie Down Bronx, inviting readers to an epic block party! |
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Lucero/ Bright Star
by Yuyi Morales Pura Belpré Youth Illustrator Honor A nurturing voice reassures the lonely and afraid in difficult times. |
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by Nomar Perez
Pura Belpré Youth Illustrator Honor, Pura Belpré Children’s Author Honor |
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May your life be deliciosa by Michael Genhart Pura Belpré Youth Illustrator Honor Each year on Christmas Eve, Rosie's abuela teaches her not only how to make a delicious tamale, but how to make a delicious life--one filled with love, plenty of spice, and family. |
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Vamos! Let's cross the bridge by Raúl the Third Pura Belpré Youth Illustrator Award Using their new truck to carry party supplies over the bridge, Little Lobo and his dog Bernabé are stuck in traffic and decide to throw an epic party to pass the time. |
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After her mother dies and her father is dragged away by soldiers in 1931 during the Mexican Revolution, 12-year-old Petra Luna will do anything to keep her family safe and lead them to a better life across the U.S. border. |
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Child of the flower-song people : Luz Jiménez, daughter of the Nahua by Gloria Amescua Pura Belpré Children’s Author Honor This visually stunning biography tells the extraordinary story of how model and teacher Luz Jiménez became “the soul of Mexico”—a living link between the indigenous Nahua and the rest of the world. |
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De aquí como el coquí
by Nomar Perez Pura Belpré Youth Illustrator Honor, Pura Belpré Children’s Author Honor |
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Había una vez...There lived a girl named Petra Peña, who wanted nothing more than to be a storyteller, like her abuelita. But Petra's world is ending. Earth has been destroyed by a comet, and only a few hundred scientists and their children--among them Petra and her family--have been chosen to journey to a new planet. They are the ones who must carry on the human race. Hundreds of years later, Petra wakes to this new planet--and the discovery that she is the only person who remembers Earth. A sinister Collective has taken over the ship during its journey, bent on erasing the sins of humanity's past. They have systematically purged the memories of all aboard--or purged them altogether. Petra alone now carries the stories of our past, and with them, anyhope for our future. Can she make them live again? |
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With the one person who understands him fifteen hundred miles away, Jules must face his fears about coming out alone, which accidentally propels him into the life he’s always dreamed of. |
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An ambitious girl who fears disappointing her traditional Mexican-American parents finds her world upended by a long-held secret before she bonds with a boy who would protect his immigration status and newfound family. |
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Guatemalan-American high school senior Millie Vargas struggles to balance her family's needs with her own ambitions, especially after her mother's employer, a Senate candidate, uses Millie as a poster child for 'deserving' immigrants. |
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How Moon Fuentez fell in love with the universe by Raquel Vasquez Gilliland Pura Belpré Young Adult Author Award When she takes a job as a “merch girl” on a tour bus full of beautiful influencers, Moon Fuentez, the twin sister of a social media star, questions her destiny as the unnoticed, unloved wallflower she always thought she was. |
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The great stink : how Joseph Bazalgette solved London's poop pollution problem by Colleen Paeff Robert F. Sibert Informational Book Honor Taking readers back to 1858 London, during which time the River Thames reeks, this hilarious nonfiction picture book follows an engineer named Joseph Bazalgette as he creates a new sewer system to clean the river and save lives. |
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Fallout : spies, superbombs, and the ultimate Cold War showdown by Steve Sheinkin Robert F. Sibert Informational Book Honor In this follow-up to the award-winning Bomb, a celebrated nonfiction author takes on the Cold War, a decades-long showdown that culminated in the Cuban Missile Crisis, the world’s close call with the third—and final—world war. |
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We are still here! : Native American truths everyone should know by Traci Sorell Robert F. Sibert Informational Book Honor, American Indian Youth Literature Picture Book Honor One dozen kids discuss the historical and contemporary laws, policies, movements and victories that have shaped Native American culture of the past and present, from forced assimilation and tribe nation delegitimization to language revival efforts and the Indian Child Welfare Act. |
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Unspeakable : the Tulsa Race Massacre by Carole Boston Weatherford Caldecott Honor, Coretta Scott King Author Award, Coretta Scott King Illustrator Award, Robert F. Sibert Informational Book Honor Celebrated author Carole Boston Weatherford and illustrator Floyd Cooper provide a powerful look at the 1921 Tulsa race massacre, one of the worst incidents of racial violence in our nation's history. |
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The people's painter : how Ben Shahn fought for justice with art by Cynthia Levinson Robert F. Sibert Informational Book Award A lyrical picture book introduction to the life and achievements of the influential Jewish artist and activist touches on Ben Shahn’s remarkable skills of observation, his witness to his protester father’s banishment and his commitment to promoting justice through art. |
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Future stepsisters, Dalia and Alexa, embark on a roadtrip and when Alexa reveals that her girlfriend will be joining, Dalia promises to keep her secret, but realizes she may have one of her own |
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Earth's population is divided between only two existing countries which cannot manage to cooperate in any way, until a distress signal arrives from Titan's first settler. Neither country can afford to rescue her on their own if they act separately. Ambrose wakes up on board the Coordinated Endeavour under strange circumstances: he doesn't remember the launch, the ship's OS is voiced by his mother, strangers have been aboard, and Kodiak, the only other person on this mission, has barricaded himself away from sight. But nothing will stop Ambrose from making this mission succeed-- not when the settler he's rescuing is his sister. |
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A devoted granddaughter honors the memory of her late Gramps by fixing up their family’s camper and encouraging her mourning Grandad to continue the traveling and exploring adventures that Gramps and Grandad loved. |
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In the summer before middle school, eleven-year-old Bug must contend with best friend Moira suddenly caring about clothes, makeup, and boys; a ghost haunting; and the truth about Bug's gender identity. |
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Printz Honor, Stonewall Young Adult Literature Award, Asian/Pacific American Award for Literature Youth Literature Award With the threat of deportation looming over her father--in spite of his hard-won citizenship and disavowal of Communism--seventeen-year-old American-born Chinese Lily Hu pursues a relationship with her Caucasian classmate Kath. |
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Ally the alligator is perfectly happy being alone . . . until one day a noisy bird named Beak lands on her snout. Beak thinks Ally is lonely and needs a friend. He has all sorts of friendship goals in mind, like riding bikes together, going to the movies together, and even solving mysteries together! |
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Nothing fits a dinosaur by Jonathan Fenske Theodor Seuss Geisel Honor In this hilarious Level 1 Ready-to-Read, a dinosaur tries to find something to wear to bed. |
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In his next I Can Read adventure, Fox—the hilarious trickster character featured in Geisel Award-winning Fox the Tiger—overcomes his fear of monsters when he meets real nocturnal animals. |
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A contemporary thriller by a debut author follows two Niveus Private Academy students who, selected to be part of the elite school’s senior class prefects, are pitted against an anonymous bully who reveals all of their secrets. |
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Vowing to find a vampire so she can become one and then save her father, who has terminal cancer, Victoria travels to New Orleans where she meets a mysterious young man who just might be her salvation. |
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Coretta Scott King/John Steptoe New Talent Author Award, William C. Morris Award Finalist Moth, who lost her family in an accident, and Sani, who is battling ongoing depression, take a road trip that has them chasing ghosts and searching for ancestors, which helps them move forward in surprising, powerful and unforgettable ways. |
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A boy living in harsh poverty during a brutal Idaho winter searches for the drug money that sent his father to prison to keep his brother out of foster care, while a teen under the control of a merciless father makes a wrenching choice to help the brothers survive. |
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Printz Award, William C. Morris Award, American Indian Youth Literature Young Adult Honor Treated like an outsider in both her hometown and on the Ojibwe reservation, a half-Native American science geek and star hockey player places her dreams on hold in the wake of a family tragedy. A first novel. |
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Black birds in the sky : the story and legacy of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre by Brandy Colbert YALSA Award for Excellence in Nonfiction Finalist An award-winning author recounts one of the most deadly and destructive acts of racial violence in American history and explores the ways the Tulsa Race Massacre is the story of America. |
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From a whisper to a rallying cry : the killing of Vincent Chin and the trial that galvanized the Asian American movement by Paula Yoo YALSA Award for Excellence in Nonfiction Finalist An account of the 1982 murder of Vincent Chin shares insights into how a miscarriage of justice in the wake of a hate crime rallied the Asian-American community throughout a groundbreaking civil rights trial. By the award-winning author of Sixteen Years in Sixteen Seconds. |
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In the shadow of the fallen towers : the second, minutes, hours, days, weeks, months, and years after the 9/11 attacks by Don Brown YALSA Award for Excellence in Nonfiction Finalist This graphic novel chronicles the immediate aftermath of the terrorist attack on the World Trade Center in New York City through moving individual stories that bear witness to our history and the ways it shapes our future. |
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The woman all spies fear : code breaker Elizebeth Smith Friedman and her hidden life by Amy Butler Greenfield YALSA Award for Excellence in Nonfiction Finalist Recounts the inspiring true story of Elizebeth Smith Friedman, an American woman who pioneered codebreaking during WWI and WWII but was only recently recognized for her extraordinary contributions. |
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Ambushed! : the assassination plot against President Garfield by Gail Jarrow YALSA Award for Excellence in Nonfiction James Abram Garfield, the 20th President of the United States, was assassinated when he was shot by Charles Guiteau in July 1881, less than four months after he was elected president. But Garfield didn't actually die until 80 days later. In this page-turner, award-winning author Gail Jarrow delves into the fascinating story of the relationship between Garfield and Guiteau, and relates the gruesome details of Garfield's slow and agonizing death. She reveals medical mistakes made in the aftermath of Garfield's assassination, including the faulty diagnoses and outdated treatments that led to the president's demise. This gripping blend of science, history, and mystery--the latest title in the Medical Fiascoes series--is nonfiction for kids at its best: exciting and relevant and packed with plenty of villains and horrifying facts. |
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Classified : the secret career of Mary Golda Ross, Cherokee aerospace engineer by Traci Sorell American Indian Youth Literature Picture Book Honor Mary Golda Ross designed classified projects for Lockheed Aircraft Corporation as the company's first female engineer. Find out how her passion for math and the Cherokee values she was raised with shaped her life and work. |
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I sang you down from the stars by Tasha Spillett-Sumner American Indian Youth Literature Picture Book Honor A Native American woman describes how she loved her child before it was born and, throughout her pregnancy, gathered a bundle of gifts to welcome the newborn. |
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Robert F. Sibert Informational Book Honor, American Indian Youth Literature Picture Book Honor One dozen kids discuss the historical and contemporary laws, policies, movements and victories that have shaped Native American culture of the past and present, from forced assimilation and tribe nation delegitimization to language revival efforts and the Indian Child Welfare Act. |
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Ella Cara Deloria : Dakota Language Protector by Diane Wilson American Indian Youth Literature Middle Grade Honor Ella Cara Deloria loved to listen to her family tell stories in the Dakota language. She recorded many American Indian peoples' stories and languages and shared them with everyone. She helped protect her people's language for future generations and also wrote stories of her own. Her story is a Minnesota Native American life. |
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Indigenous Peoples' Day is about celebrating! The second Monday in October is a day to honor Native American people, their histories, and cultures. People mark the day with food, dancing, and songs. Readers will discover how a shared holiday can have multiple traditions and be celebrated in all sorts of ways. |
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The used-to-be best friend : The Used-To-Be Best Friend by Dawn Quigley American Indian Youth Literature Middle Grade Honor Jo Jo Makoons Azure is a spirited seven-year-old who moves through the world a little differently than anyone else on her Ojibwe reservation. It always seems like her mom, her kokum (grandma), and her teacher have a lot to learn--about how good Jo Jo isat cleaning up, what makes a good rhyme, and what it means to be friendly. Even though Jo Jo loves her #1 best friend Mimi (who is a cat), she's worried that she needs to figure out how to make more friends. Because Fern, her best friend at school, may not want to be friends anymore. |
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After an injury sidelines her dreams of becoming a ballet star, Maisie is not excited for her blended family's midwinter road trip along the coast, near the Makah community where her mother grew up. |
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A debut novel inspired by Native-American culture follows the experiences of a boy whose summer at his grandmother’s reservation home is shaped by his uncle’s addictions and an encounter with a sacred being from the Navajo Creation Story. |
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Imagine an America very similar to our own. This America been shaped dramatically by the magic, monsters, knowledge, and legends of its peoples. Elatsoe lives in this slightly stranger America. She can raise the ghosts of dead animals, a skill passed down through generations of her Lipan Apache family. Her beloved cousin has just been murdered, in a town that wants no prying eyes. But she is going to do more than pry. |
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Printz Award, William C. Morris Award, American Indian Youth Literature Young Adult Honor Treated like an outsider in both her hometown and on the Ojibwe reservation, a half-Native American science geek and star hockey player places her dreams on hold in the wake of a family tragedy. A first novel. |
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French has been captured by the Recruiters, confined to one of the infamous residential schools, where the government extracts the marrow of Indigenous people in order to steal the ability to dream, and where the captured are programmed to betray others of their kind, something which he discovers has been done to his brother; meanwhile the other survivors, his found family, are hunting for him, determined to rescue him--and French has to decide just how much, and whom, he is willing to sacrifice to survive and be reunited with Rose and the others. |
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Notable native people : 50 indigenous leaders, dreamers, and changemakers from past and present
by Adrienne Keene American Indian Youth Literature Young Adult Honor |
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Apple : skin to the core : a memoir in words and pictures by Eric Gansworth American Indian Youth Literature Young Adult Award The term 'Apple' is a slur in Native communities across the country. It's for someone supposedly 'red on the outside, white on the inside.' Eric Gansworth is telling his story in Apple (Skin to the Core). The story of his family, of Onondaga among Tuscaroras, of Native folks everywhere. From the horrible legacy of the government boarding schools, to a boy watching his siblings leave and return and leave again, to a young man fighting to be an artist who balances multiple worlds. Eric shatters that slur and reclaims it in verse and prose and imagery that truly lives up to the word heartbreaking. |
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A boy named Isamu : a story of Isamu Noguchi by James Yang Asian/Pacific American Award for Literature Picture Book Honor Imagines a day in the boyhood of Japanese American artist, Isamu Noguchi, while wandering through an outdoor market, through the forest, and then by the ocean, seeing things Isamu sees through the eyes of a young artist. |
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Watercress by Andrea Wang Newbery Honor, Caldecott Medal, Asian/Pacific American Award for Literature Picture Book Award A little girl traveling through Ohio in an old car helps her family collect muddy, snail-covered watercress from a ditch in the wild before learning the story of her immigrant heritage and how foraging for fresh food helps her loved ones stay together. |
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Asian/Pacific American Award for Literature Children's Literature Honor A tale based on true events follows the coming-of-age of a girl who is motivated by an act of racism at school to learn about her ancestral heritage and her grandparents’ experiences as lost children during the Korean War. |
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A companion to the award-winning Amina’s Voice finds Amina discouraged by the lack of interest her Greendale friends show in her visit to Pakistan before giving a class presentation about Malala Yousafzai. |
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Growing up together in the community of Japantown, San Francisco, four second-generation Japanese American teens find their bond tested by widespread discrimination and the mass incarcerations of people of Japanese ancestry during World War II. |
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Last night at the Telegraph Club by Malinda Lo Printz Honor, Stonewall Young Adult Literature Award, Asian/Pacific American Award for Literature Youth Literature Award With the threat of deportation looming over her father--in spite of his hard-won citizenship and disavowal of Communism--seventeen-year-old American-born Chinese Lily Hu pursues a relationship with her Caucasian classmate Kath. |
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Nicky & Vera : a quiet hero of the Holocaust and the children he rescued by Peter Sís Sydney Taylor Picture Book Honor Caldecott Honoree and Sibert Medalist Peter Sís honors a man who saved hundreds of children from the Nazis. In 1938, twenty-nine-year-old Nicholas Winton saved the lives of almost 700 children trapped in Nazi-occupied Czechoslovakia-a story he never told and that remained unknown until an unforgettable TV appearance in the 1980s reunited him with some of the children he saved. Czech-American artist, MacArthur Fellow, and Andersen Award winner Peter Sís dramatizes Winton's story in this distinctive and deeply personal picture book. He intertwines Nicky's efforts with the story of one of the children he saved-a young girl named Vera, whose family enlisted Nicky's aid when the Germans occupied their country. As the war passes and Vera grows up, she must find balance in her dual identities-one her birthright, the other her choice. Nicky & Vera is a masterful tribute to a humble man's courageous efforts to protect Europe's most vulnerable, and a timely portrayal of the hopes and fears of those forced to leave their homes and create new lives. |
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In Eliza Davis's day, Charles Dickens was the most celebrated living writer in England. But some of his books reflected a prejudice that was all too common at the time: prejudice against Jewish people. Eliza was Jewish, and her heart hurt to see a Jewish character in Oliver Twist portrayed as ugly and selfish. She wanted to speak out about how unfair that was, even if it meant speaking out against the great man himself. So she wrote a letter to Charles Dickens. What happened next is history. |
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The Christmas Mitzvah
by Jeff Gottesfeld Sydney Taylor Picture Book Honor Al Rosen, a Jewish man, takes on the jobs of his Christian neighbors on Christmas Eve and day so they can spend the holiday with their families, starting a tradition that lasts for decades. |
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The Passover guest by Susan Kusel Sydney Taylor Picture Book Award In Washington, D.C., during the Great Depression, Muriel and her family have no money to prepare the seder meal until a mysterious stranger performs a Passover miracle. Includes notes on the Passover holiday, the Great Depression, and the history of the D.C. Jewish community. |
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The genius under the table : growing up behind the Iron Curtain by Eugene Yelchin Sydney Taylor Middle Grade Honor In this brilliant blend of comic timing and disarming poignancy, the award-winning author and artist recounts his childhood in Cold War Russia as a young boy desperate to understand his place in his family. |
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When swastikas begin appearing all over town, Link, Michael and Dana, the only Jewish girl in town, must face crimes both past and present to find the truth. |
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Middle schooler Ariel Goldberg must find her own voice and define her own beliefs after her big sister elopes with a young man from India following the Supreme Court decision that strikes down laws banning interracial marriage. |
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Nine months after Danny disappeared, his closest friends, Ellie, Rae, and Deenie, deal with their loss very differently but will have to share secrets about the night he disappeared to uncover the truth. |
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While hosting E. Nigma’s glamorous private poker nights with Gotham City’s elites to afford medical treatments for her mother, Willow is attacked by one of Gotham’s most horrific villains and wakes up with powers she never dreamed of. |
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After discovering love letters from a mystery man named Edward in her recently deceased grandmother’s possessions, 17-year-old Abby heads to Nantucket to discover the truth, but things soon get complicated as the mystery deepens and love enters the picture. |
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In 1893 Chicago, after his best friend becomes the latest victim in a long line of murdered Jewish boys, Alter Rosen is plunged into a nightmare where he is thrown back into the arms of a dangerous boy from his past. |