The Youth Media Awards were announced today at the end of the ALA Mid-Winter Meeting. There are so many, many awards given out now it is hard to bring recognition to all of them. Congratulations to all the winners!
The Printz Award and Honor books, which I shall attempt to read this year, are:
Award winner:
Firekeeper's Daughter
By Angeline Boulley
Henry Holt and Company, and imprint of MacMillan Children's Publishing Group
Daunis, a half-Ojibwe, half-white former hockey player/aspiring
scientist never feels fully settled in either her reservation or the
outside world. She finds herself even more torn when she witnesses her
best friend’s murder and is pulled into an FBI investigation centered on
a lethal new drug running wild among her friends and family.
Honor Books:
Concrete Rose
By Angie Thomas
Balzer+Bray, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
If there’s one thing seventeen-year-old Maverick Carter knows,
it’s that a real man takes care of his family. As the son of a former
gang legend, Mav does that the only way he knows how: dealing for the
King Lords. With this money he can help his mom, who works two jobs
while his dad’s in prison.
Last Night at the Telegraph Club
By Malinda Lo
Dutton Books for Young Readers, an imprint of Penguin Young Readers, a division of Penguin Random House
-year-old
Lily Hu can’t remember exactly when the feeling took root—that desire
to look, to move closer, to touch. Whenever it started growing, it
definitely bloomed the moment she and Kathleen Miller walked under the
flashing neon sign of a lesbian bar called the Telegraph Club. Suddenly
everything seemed possible.
Revolution In Our Time: The Black Panther Party’s Promise to the People
By Kekla Magoon
Candlewick Press
Revolution
in Our Time puts the Panthers in the proper context of Black American
history, from the first arrival of enslaved people to the Black Lives
Matter movement of today. Kekla Magoon’s eye-opening work invites a new
generation of readers grappling with injustices in the United States to
learn from the Panthers’ history and courage, inspiring them to take
their own place in the ongoing fight for justice.
Starfish
By Lisa Fipps
Nancy Paulsen Books, an imprint of Penguin Random House
Bullied and shamed her whole life for being fat, twelve-year-old
Ellie finally gains the confidence to stand up for herself, with the
help of some wonderful new allies.
-Anne
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