1/25/2024
JUST BOOKS
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This past Monday the American Library Association (ALA) gave out their awards for the best books of 2024. This day is a little like the Academy Awards for book lovers! Please find the books that won listed below. Many are already in our library.
ALA YMA WinnersAwards
 
🌟 Printz - Excellence in Young Adult Literature
 
🌟Excellence in Nonfiction for Young Adults
 
🌟Alex Award - Books Published for Adults with Teen Appeal
 
🌟Odyssey - Excellence in Audiobook Production
 
🌟Coretta Scott King - Best Artistic Expression of the African American Experience
 
🌟Pura Belpre - Best Books Portraying the Latino Cultural Experience 

🌟Schneider Family - Best Artistic Expression of the Disability Experience 
 
🌟Stonewall - Best Books Relating to the LGBTQIA+ Experience 
 
🌟Sydney Taylor - Best Books Portraying the Jewish Experience 
 
🌟American Indian Youth Literature Award 
 
🌟APALA - Best Books Celebrating Asian/Pacific American Cuture and Heritage
 
🌟Newbery - Most Distinguished Children's Literature 

🌟Caldecott - Most Distinguished Illustrations
 
FIRST CHAPTER FRIDAY

Fiction

THE COLLECTORS book cover
🌟 Printz Award Winner
The Collectors: Stories
by A. S. King

Centering around an unforgettable cast of characters and their strange and surprising collections, including a nonbinary kid collecting pieces of other people's collections, this anthology features contributions by such award-winning and best-selling authors as David Levithan and Jenny Torres Sanchez. 
 
â–¶ Listen to a snippet of the audiobook
Nonfiction

FAMILY STYLE book cover
🌟 Excellence in Nonfiction for Young Adults Honor Book
Family Style : Memories of an American from Vietnam
by Thien Pham

Told through the lens of meaningful food and meals, this graphic novel chronicles the author's childhood immigration to America where food takes on new meaning as he and his family search for belonging, for happiness and for the American dream.
 
👀 Read the beginning of this graphic memoir

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