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
Notes:
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 "Fallout"
Star rating for Fallout
Average Rating:
5 stars
Notes:
Sibert honor book
Description:
"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,...