2022 ALA Youth Media Awards

Winners and Honor books for the 2022 awards

Showing 1 - 8 of 8  There are a total of 87 valid entries on the list.
Book cover for "Apple"
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American Indian Young Adult winner
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Author and visual artist "Eric Gansworth is telling his story ... of his family, of Onondaga among Tuscaroras, of Native folks everywhere--from the horrible legacy of the government boarding schools, to a boy watching his siblings leave and return and leave again, to a young man fighting to be an artist who balances multiple worlds. Eric shatters that slur and reclaims it in verse and prose and imagery that truly lives up to the word heartbreaking"--Publisher...
Book cover for "Black birds in the sky"
Star rating for Black birds in the sky
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4 stars
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Excellence in Nonfiction for Young Adults honor book
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"In the early morning of June 1, 1921, a white mob marched across the train tracks in Tulsa, Oklahoma, and into its predominantly Black Greenwood District--a thriving, affluent neighborhood known as America's Black Wall Street. They brought with them firearms, gasoline, and explosives. In a few short hours, they'd razed thirty-five square blocks to the ground, leaving hundreds dead. The Tulsa Race Massacre is one of the most devastating acts of racial...
Book cover for "Child of the flower-song people"
Star rating for Child of the flower-song people
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Pura Belpre Middle Grade honor book
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"Award-winning illustrator Duncan Tonatiuh brings to life debut author Gloria Amescua's lyrical biography of an indigenous Nahua woman from Mexico who taught and preserved her people's culture through modeling for famous artists"--Provided by publisher.
Book cover for "Fallout"
Star rating for Fallout
Average Rating:
5 stars
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Sibert honor book
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"As World War II comes to a close, the United States and the Soviet Union emerge as the two greatest world powers on extreme opposites of the political spectrum. After the United States showed its hand with the atomic bomb in Hiroshima, the Soviets refuse to be left behind. With communism sweeping the globe, the two nations begin a neck-and-neck competition to build even more destructive bombs and conquer the Space Race. In their battle for dominance,...
Book cover for "Revolution in our time"
Star rating for Revolution in our time
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Coretta Scott King Author honor book and Printz honor book
Book cover for "The Passover guest"
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Sidney Taylor Picture Book winner
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In Washington, D.C., during the Great Depression, Muriel and her family have no money to prepare the seder meal until a mysterious stranger performs a Passover miracle. Includes notes on the Passover holiday, the Great Depression, and the history of the D.C. Jewish community.
Book cover for "Unspeakable"
Star rating for Unspeakable
Average Rating:
4.5 stars
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Coretta Scott King Illustrator and Author winner, Caldecott honor book and Sibert honor book
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"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"--
Book cover for "We are not free"
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4.5 stars
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Asian Pacific Islander Young Adult honor book
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"For fourteen-year-old budding artist Minoru Ito, her two brothers, her friends, and the other members of the Japanese-American community in southern California, the three months since Pearl Harbor was attacked have become a waking nightmare: attacked, spat on, and abused with no way to retaliate--and now things are about to get worse, their lives forever changed by the mass incarcerations in the relocation camps."--Publisher's description.