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Award Winners!/New titles 5&6 2/7/23

 

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Awards: 

It was a good day for Jason Reynolds. Stuntboy, in the meantime, won the best audiobook and He won a lifetime achievement award plus a Caldecott Honor for Ain’t burned all the bright. 

Newbery: Freewater by Amina Luqman-Dawson won both the Newbery and the Coretta Scott King awards (none of my predictions were correct).

Newbery honors:

The last Mapmaker by Christina Soontornvat, Iveliz explains it all by Andrea Beatriz Arango, Maizie Chen’s last chance by Lisa Yee

Pura Belpre: Frizzy by Claribel A. Ortega winner

Coretta Scott King award honoring outstanding African American authors: Choosing Brave: Mamie Till-Mobley, Emmett Till, and the voices that sparked the civil rights movement by Angela Joy, Star Child: a biographical Constellation of Octavia Estelle Butler by Ibi Zoboi, Swim Team by Johnnie Christmas

Other winners: Hummingbird by Natalie Lloyd, Honestly Elliott by Gillian McDunn

New Titles: Hands by Torrey Maldonado, The DK Complete dog breed book, How to build a human by Pamela S. Turner, Horrible Histories