2022 ALA Youth Media Awards

Winners and Honor books for the 2022 awards

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Book cover for "How to find what you're not looking for"
Star rating for How to find what you're not looking for
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Sidney Taylor Middle Grade winner
Description:
Middle schooler Ariel Goldberg must find her own voice and define her own beliefs after her big sister elopes with a young man from India following the Supreme Court decision that strikes down laws banning interracial marriage.

2. Linked

Book cover for "Linked"
Star rating for Linked
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4.5 stars
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Sidney Taylor Middle Grade honor book
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"Link, Michael, and Dana live in a quiet town. But it's woken up very quickly when someone sneaks into school and vandalizes it with a swastika. Nobody can believe it. How could such a symbol of hate end up in the middle of their school? Who would do such a thing? Because Michael was the first person to see it, he's the first suspect. Because Link is one of the most popular guys in school, everyone's looking to him to figure it out. And because Dana's...
Book cover for "We are not free"
Star rating 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.