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The votes are in for the first round of November/December Cover Madness, and we move on to round 2! Pick your favorite from each group — let us know your choices in the comments! Come back next week to see which covers advance to the next round. Read the Cover Madness rules here....
Cover Madness continues! Voting is over for the September/October covers. Next up are the November/December covers. Pick your favorite from each group — let us know your favorites in the comments! Come back next week to see which covers advance to the next round. Read the Cover Madness rules here. Click...
Not all deserving books bring home ALA awards. Our annual Mind the Gap Awards pay tribute to our favorite books that didn’t win. Here’s how we reviewed our 2022 winners. Wishes by Mượn Thị Văn; illus. by Victo Ngai Primary Orchard/Scholastic 40 pp. g 5/21 978-1-338-30589-0 $18.99 A little...
Fiction and Poetry 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...
Stitch by Stitch: Elizabeth Hobbs Keckly Sews Her Way to Freedom by Connie Schofield-Morrison; illus. by Elizabeth Zunon Primary, Intermediate Holiday 48 pp. g 11/21 978-0-8234-3963-8 $18.99 e-book ed. 978-0-8234-5033-6 $11.99 Born into slavery, Elizabeth Keckly (sometimes spelled Keckley) followed in her mother’s footsteps as a seamstress and dressmaker, eventually...
Pura’s Cuentos: How Pura Belpré Reshaped Libraries with Her Stories by Annette Bay Pimentel; illus. by Magaly Morales Primary Abrams 40 pp. g 9/21 978-1-4197-4941-4 $18.99 e-book ed. 978-1-64700-498-9 $15.54 “Pura Belpré always knew that many stories worth telling aren’t in books” is the lingering message of this picture-book biography....
Niki Nakayama: A Chef’s Tale in 13 Bites by Jamie Michalak and Debbi Michiko Florence; illus. by Yuko Jones Primary Farrar 40 pp. g 9/21 978-0-374-31387-6 $18.99 Michalak and Florence dish up a sumptuous celebration of chef Niki Nakayama. Born in Los Angeles to immigrant parents, Nakayama grew up in...
Warning — the coming sentence might make you believe you have stepped into a time warp, so hug a book and brace yourself. Today’s girls will be left behind in computing, tech, science, engineering, and math-related jobs, unless we socialize our girls to believe in their STEM abilities by fostering a...
Winner The People’s Painter: How Ben Shahn Fought for Justice with Art by Cynthia Levinson; illus. by Evan Turk Primary, Intermediate Abrams 48 pp. g 4/21 978-1-4197-4130-2 $18.99 e-book ed. 978-1-64700-320-3 $15.54 Ben Shahn (1898–1969) was known as “the people’s painter” because his art told real stories about real people....
Winner Unspeakable: The Tulsa Race Massacre by Carole Boston Weatherford; illus. by Floyd Cooper Primary, Intermediate Carolrhoda 32 pp. g 2/21 978-1-5415-8120-3 $17.99 e-book ed. 978-1-7284-1738-7 $27.99 In 1921, over the course of sixteen hours, the Black community of Greenwood, in Tulsa, Oklahoma, was all but destroyed, with most of...