2022 ALA Youth Media Awards

Winners and Honor books for the 2022 awards

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Book cover for "Apple"
Star rating for Apple
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American Indian Young Adult winner
Description:
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 "Elatsoe"
Star rating for Elatsoe
Average Rating:
3.6 stars
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American Indian Young Adult honor book
Description:
"Imagine an America very similar to our own. It's got homework, best friends, and pistachio ice cream. There are some differences. This America been shaped dramatically by the magic, monsters, knowledge, and legends of its peoples, those Indigenous and those not. Some of these forces are charmingly everyday, like the ability to make an orb of light appear or travel across the world through rings of fungi. But other forces are less charming and should...
Book cover for "Firekeeper's daughter"
Star rating for Firekeeper's daughter
Average Rating:
4.3 stars
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Printz winner, Morris winner, Rise: A Feminist Book Project Top Ten book, and American Indian Young Adult honor book
Description:
Daunis, who's part Ojibwe, defers attending the University of Michigan to care for her mother and reluctantly becomes involved in the investigation of a series of drug-related deaths.
Book cover for "Hunting by stars"
Star rating for Hunting by stars
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Average Rating:
5 stars
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American Indian Young Adult honor book
Description:
French has been captured by the Recruiters, confined to one of the infamous residential schools, where the government extracts the marrow of Indigenous people in order to steal the ability to dream, and where the captured are programmed to betray others of their kind, something which he discovers has been done to his brother; meanwhile the other survivors, his found family, are hunting for him, determined to rescue him--and French has to decide just...
Book cover for "Notable native people"
Star rating for Notable native people
Average Rating:
5 stars
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American Indian Young Adult honor book
Description:
"An accessible and educational illustrated book profiling 50 notable American Indian, Alaska Native, and Native Hawaiian people, from NBA star Kyrie Irving of the Standing Rock Lakota to Wilma Mankiller, the first female principal chief of the Cherokee Nation"--
Book cover for "The sea in winter"
Star rating for The sea in winter
Average Rating:
4.5 stars
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American Indian Middle Grade honor book
Description:
After an injury sidelines her dreams of becoming a ballet star, Maisie is not excited for her blended family's midwinter road trip along the coast, near the Makah community where her mother grew up.
Book cover for "The sea-ringed world"
Star rating for The sea-ringed world
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Batchelder honor book
Description:
"Fifteen thousand years before Europeans stepped foot in the Americas, people had already spread from tip to tip and coast to coast. Like all humans, these Native Americans sought to understand their place in the universe, the nature of their relationship with the divine, and the origin of the world into which their ancestors had emerged. The answers lay in their sacred stories. Author Mar̕a Garc̕a Esper̤n, illustrator Amanda Mijangos, and translator...
Book cover for "A snake falls to Earth"
Star rating for A snake falls to Earth
Average Rating:
3.5 stars
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Newbery honor book
Description:
"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...
Book cover for "We are still here!"
Star rating for We are still here!
Average Rating:
4 stars
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American Indian Picture Book honor and Sibert honor book
Description:
"A group of Native American kids from different tribes presents twelve historical and contemporary time periods, struggles, and victories to their classmates, each ending with a powerful refrain: We are still here!"--