Monday, January 25, 2021

2021 ALA Awards

Newbery:
**When You Trap a Tiger (Tae Keller) 4.21 - 1177 
All Thirteen: The Incredible Cave Rescue of the Thai Boys' Soccer Team - Soontornvat 4.69 - 356
Henry Brown Mails Himself to Freedom - Weatherford (picture book) 4.07 - 153
Fighting Words - Bradley 4.74 - 2473
We Dream of Space - Kelly 4.21 - 1950
A Wish in the Dark - Soontornvat 4.43 - 1064

Caldecott:
**We Are Water Protectors - Lindstrom/MICHAELA GOADE
A Place Inside of Me: A Poem to Heal the Heart - Elliott/ NOA DENMON
The Cat Man of Aleppo - Latham & Shasi-Basha/YUKO SHIMIZU
Me & Mama - COZBI A. CABRERA
Outside In - Underwood/CINDY DERBY

Coretta Scott King:
**Before the Ever After - Woodson  4.25 - 4549 ratings

Printz
** Everything Sad is Untrue (a true story) - Nayer 4.37 - 975 ratings (flees Iran)
Apple (Skin to the Core) - Gansworth 4.00 * 349 ratings (memoir in verse)
Dragon Hoops - Lang 4.47 - 2930 ratings (graphic novel)
Every Body Looking - Iloh 3.96 - 760 ratings (verse)
We Are Not Free - Chee 4.45 - 1299 ratings

Sydney Taylor (Jew
ish)
Middle Grades:
**Turtle Boy  - Wolkenstein 4.39 - 317 ratings
No Vacancy - Cohen 4.05 - 80 ratings
Anya and the Nightingale - Pasternack
The Blackbird Girls - Blankman 4.42 - 1130 ratings (Chernobyl)

YA:
**Dancing at the Pity Party - Feder 4.59 - 3114 ratings (cancer/death of mother)
They Went Left - Hesse 4.29 - 3915 ratings (searching for brother after Auschwitz


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