2022 ALA Youth Media Awards

Winners and Honor books for the 2022 awards

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Book cover for "Black birds in the sky"
Star rating for Black birds in the sky
Average Rating:
4 stars
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Excellence in Nonfiction for Young Adults honor book
Description:
"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 "Last night at the Telegraph Club"
Star rating for Last night at the Telegraph Club
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Average Rating:
4.5 stars
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Asian Pacific Islander Young Adult winner, Stonewall Young Adult winner, Rise: A Feminist Book Project Top Ten book and Printz honor book
Description:
"Seventeen-year-old Lily Hu can't remember exactly when the question took root, but the answer was in full bloom the moment she and Kathleen Miller walked under the flashing neon sign of a lesbian bar called the Telegraph Club. America in 1954 is not a safe place for two girls to fall in love, especially not in Chinatown. Red-Scare paranoia threatens everyone, including Chinese Americans like Lily. With deportation looming over her father--despite...
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
Description:
"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"--