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Children's 2022 Book Award Winners January 2022
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The last cuentista
by Donna Barba Higuera
Newbery Award/Pura Belpré Children’s Author Award- 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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Red, white, and whole
by Rajani LaRocca
Newbery Honor- 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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A snake falls to Earth
by Darcie Little Badger
Newbery Honor- 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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Too bright to see
by Kyle Lukoff
Newbery Honor- 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
Caldecott Winner/Newbery Honor- 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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Have you ever seen a flower?
by Shawn Harris
Caldecott Honor- 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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Mel fell
by Corey R. Tabor
Caldecott Honor- 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.
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Wonder walkers
by Micha Archer
Caldecott Honor- Two curious children go for a walk, asking imaginative questions about the natural beauty that surrounds them.
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Unspeakable : the Tulsa Race Massacre
by Carole Boston Weatherford
Coretta Scott King Author Award/Coretta Scott King Illustrator Award/Caldecott Honor/Sibert Honor Book- 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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Home is not a country
by Safia Elhillo
Coretta Scott King Author Honor- 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.
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The people remember
by Ibi Aanu Zoboi
Coretta Scott King Author Honor- 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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Revolution in Our Time : The Black Panther Party's Promise to the People
by Kekla Magoon
Coretta Scott King Author Honor/Michael L. Prinz 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. For too long the Panthers’ story has been a footnote to the civil rights movement rather than what it was: a revolutionary socialist movement that drew thousands of members—mostly women—and became the target of one of the most sustained repression efforts ever made by the U.S. government against its own citizens.
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Nina : a story of Nina Simone
by Traci N. Todd
Coretta Scott King Illustrator Honor- 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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We wait for the sun
by Dovey Johnson Roundtree
Coretta Scott King Illustrator Honor- 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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Soul food Sunday
by Winsome Bingham
Coretta Scott King Illustrator Honor- 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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Me (Moth)
by Amber McBride
Coretta Scott King/John Steptoe New Talent Author Award- 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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Firekeeper's daughter
by Angeline Boulley
Michael L. Printz Award/William C. Morris Award- 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.
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Concrete rose
by Angie Thomas
Michael L. Prinz Honor-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
Michael L. Prinz Honor- When Lily realizes she has feelings for a girl in her math class, it threatens Lily's oldest friendships and even her father's citizenship status and eventually, Lily must decide if owning her truth is worth everything she has ever known.
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Starfish
by Lisa Fipps
Michael L. Prinz Honor--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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My City Speaks
by Darren Lebeuf
Schneider Family Book Award- 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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A sky-blue bench
by Bahram Rahman
Schneider Family Book Award-- 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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A walk in the words
by Hudson Talbott
Schneider Family Book Award-- 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 bird will soar
by Alison Green Myers
Schneider Family Book Award-- 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 kind of spark
by Elle McNicoll
Schneider Family Book Award-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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Stuntboy, in the meantime
by Jason Reynolds
Schneider Family Book Award- 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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The words in my hands
by Asphyxia
Schneider Family Book Award- 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 face for Picasso : coming of age with Crouzon syndrome
by Ariel Henley
Schneider Family Book Award- 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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Temple alley summer
by Sachiko Kashiwaba
Mildred L. Batchelder Award- One rainy night, Kazu sees a strange figure in a white kimono sneak out of his house--was he dreaming? Did he see a ghost? The next day at school, the very same person is sitting in his class--and all his friends are convinced that the ghost-girl Akari has been their friend for years. If that isn't weird enough, Kazu learns that his house is in the exact location of an ancient temple called Kimyō, which, legend has it, could bring the dead back to life
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Coffee, rabbit, snowdrop, lost
by Betina Birkjær
Mildred L. Batchelder Honor- 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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Sato the rabbit
by Yuki Ainoya
Mildred L. Batchelder Honor- After becoming a rabbit, Haneru Sato gathers stars at an observatory, sails the sea in a watermelon, tastes the emotions captured in different colors of ice, and more.
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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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Boogie boogie, y'all
by C. G Esperanza
Odyssey Award/Belpré Youth Illustrator Honor - 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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I Talk Like a River
by Jordan Scott
Odyssey Honor-When a boy who stutters feels isolated, alone, and incapable of communicating in the way he'd like, it takes a kindly father and a walk by the river to help him find his voice. Compassionate parents everywhere will instantly recognize a father's ability to reconnect a child with the world around him.
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Vamos! Let's cross the bridge
by Raúl the Third
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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Bright star
by Yuyi Morales
Belpré Youth Illustrator Honor- Making its way through a border landscape teaming with native flora and fauna, a fawn must overcome its fears when it comes face-to-face with an insurmountable barrier, in a visually stunning picture book from the creator of the New York Times best-selling Dreamers.
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De aquí como el coquí/ From here like the coquí
by Nomar Perez
Belpré Youth Illustrator Honor/Belpré Children’s Author Honor - En esta emocionante historia, basada en las propias experiencias del autor e ilustrador, un niño se muda de Puerto Rico a los Estados Unidos en donde descubre que la ciudad de Nueva York tiene mucho más en común con la ciudad de San Juan que lo que el podia imaginar.
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May your life be deliciosa
by Michael Genhart
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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Barefoot dreams of Petra Luna
by Alda P. Dobbs
Belpré Children’s Author Honor - 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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The people's painter : how Ben Shahn fought for justice with art
by Cynthia Levinson
The 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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Fallout : spies, superbombs, and the ultimate Cold War showdown
by Steve Sheinkin
The 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
The Robert F. Sibert Informational 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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Summertime sleepers : animals that estivate
by Melissa Stewart
The Robert F. Sibert Informational Book Honor- All science classrooms discuss animals that hibernate during winter months, but few know about animals that estivate--a prolonged sleep during hot or dry periods. Dual layers of text awaken readers to the reasons estivating animals become dormant--whether it's because warm weather threatens food supply or to avoid increased body temperatures. From the ladybug to the salamander, from the lungfish to the desert hedgehog, twelve estivating animals and their habits--both when sleeping and awake--are explained through clear text and elegant watercolor illustrations that create a scrapbook feel.
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Fox at night
by Corey R. Tabor
Theodor Seuss Geisel Award- 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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Unlikely friends : Unlikely Friends
by Norman Feuti
Theodor Seuss Geisel Honor- 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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I hop
by Joe Cepeda
Theodor Seuss Geisel Honor- A boy rides a pogo stick to a visit with grandma.
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