ALA Award Winners

The American Library Association just announced the winners for children’s book awards!

Caldecott Winner


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Newbery Winner


The Eyes and the Impossible

Coretta Scott King


Nigeria Jones
An American Story

There Goes the Neighborhood
We Could Fly 

Pura Belpré Awards


MexiKid 
Saints of the Household

Theodor Seuss Geisel Award


Fox Has a Problem

Robert F. Sibert Informational Book Award


The Mona Lisa Vanishes

Schneider Family Book Award


Henry, Like Always
The Fire, the Water, and Maudie McGinn
Forever is Now

William C. Morris Award

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Rez Ball

YALSA Award for Excellence in Nonfiction for Young Adults

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Accountable

Stonewall Book Awards


Cross My Heart and Never Lie
Only This Beautiful Moment  

American Indian Youth Literature Awards


Forever Cousins 
A Letter for Bob
We Still Belong 
Rez Ball

Asian/Pacific American Award for Literature.

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The Truth About Dragons
Ruby Lost and Found
I’d Rather Burn Than Bloom

The Sydney Taylor Book Award


Two New Years
The Dubious Pranks of Shaindy Goodman
The Blood Years

Children’s Literature Legacy Award 


Pam Muñoz Ryan

Margaret A. Edwards Award

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Neal Shusterman
Learn more: ALA website.

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If you enjoyed One of Us is Lying, try these books

If you enjoyed the One of Us Is Lying series, here are a few more mystery books that may interest you.

A good girl’s guide to murder /Holly Jackson

As her senior capstone project, Pippa Fitz-Amobi is determined to find the real killer in a closed, local murder case, but not everyone wants her meddling in the past.

Put book on hold / eBook/ eAudio

 

Cover imageThe cheerleaders / Kara Thomas

As a town prepares for the anniversary of the deaths of five cheerleaders who were killed in three separate, horrific accidents, two teens uncover long-buried truths about what really happened years ago.

Put book on hold/ eBook

 

 

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The Ivies / Alexa Donne

The Ivies, five prep school elites who would kill to get into the colleges of their dreams, has a showdown after Liv gets into Harvard and queen bee Avery does not.

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They wish they were us / Jessica Goodman

At an exclusive prep school on Long Island, Jill Newman looks forward to her senior year as a member of the school’s most elite clique, the Players, until new evidence surfaces about the murder of her close friend Shaila.

 Put book on hold / eAudio

 

Cover imageThese deadly games / Diana Urban

When Crystal Donavan gets a message on a mysterious app with a video of her little sister gagged and bound, she agrees to play the kidnapper’s game. At first, they make her complete bizarre tasks: steal a test and stuff it in a locker, bake brownies, make a prank call. But then Crystal realizes each task is meant to hurt–and kill–her friends, one by one. But if she refuses to play, the kidnapper will kill her sister. Is someone trying to take her team out of the running for a gaming tournament? Or has the kidnapper uncovered a secret from their past, and wants them to pay for what they’ve done.

Put book on hold 

 

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How to survive your murder / Danielle Valentine

Alice is sent back to the night of her sister’s murder and has until midnight to figure out who the killer is or risk losing her sister forever.

Put book on hold / eBookeAudio

 

 

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The Agathas / Kathleen Glasgow & Liz Lawson

Alice Ogilvie’s disappearance last summer is the biggest scandal at Castle Cove High School–until her ex-boyfriend is accused of murdering his new girlfriend, and Alice must pair up with her tutor Iris Adams to clear his name by relying on the wisdom of Agatha Christie.’

Put book on hold eAudio

 

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Five Total Strangers / Natalie D. Richards

Desperate to reach her grieving mother, Mira joins a group of college students driving home after their flight is stranded, but the road conditions are not the only mortal danger they face.

Put book on hold / eBookeAudio

 

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Books Coming to Screens: January 2024

Fool Me Once by Harlan Coben

Fool Me Once

Widowed mum Mya is disturbed by an image of her late husband captured on her toddler’s nanny cam.

Jan 1st/ Netflix/ Put on hold

Delicious in Dungeon by Ryoko Kui

Delicious in Dungeon, Vol. 1 by Ryoko Kui (English) Paperback Book Free ...Delicious in Dungeon

Can sisters be reincarnated from dragon poop? Laios and his friends Marcille and Chilchuck delve into an endless dungeon in search of his fallen sister, fighting monsters, starvation, and corruption.

Jan 3rd/ Netflix/ Put on hold

A Sign of Affection by Suu Morishita

A Sign of Affection

Yuki Itose, a hearing-impaired university student, meets Itsuomi Nagi. Unlike most, he knows her impairment which makes him fascinates. A new world begins to open for them as they learn about each other’s different lives.

Jan 6th/ Crunchyroll / Put on hold

Alexander and the terrible, horrible, no good, very bad day by Judith Viorst 

Follows a Mexican American family who have recently lost their connection to each other and their roots, as they embark on an epic road trip that immediately goes hilariously wrong.

Jan 10th/ Disney+/ Put on hold

Boy Swallows Universe by Trent Dalton

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In 1980s Brisbane, a precocious boy and his selectively mute brother embark on a suburban odyssey of love, redemption and retribution after their family is torn apart by a drug lord.

Jan 11th/ Netflix/ Put on hold

The Maltese falcon / Dashiell Hammett

(Monsieur Spade)

 

 

Monsieur Spade

The famous detective Sam Spade is now 60 and living as an expat in the south of France in 1963.

Jan 14th/ AMC/ Put on hold

Which Brings Me to You by Steve Almond & Julianna Baggott

Which Brings Me to You

Two romantic burnouts meet at a wedding and almost hook up in the coatroom before putting the brakes on. They agree to exchange candid confessions about their pasts on the off chance that this might be the real thing.

Jan 19th/ Theatres

Masters of the Air : America’s Bomber Boys Who Fought the Air War against Nazi Germany by Donald L. Miller

Masters of the Air

Five miles above the ground and behind enemy lines, eleven men inside a bomber known as a “Flying Fortress” battle unrelenting flocks of German fighters.

Jan 26th/ Apple TV/ Put on hold

The Expatriates by Janice Y.K. Lee

Expats

A look at the personal and professional lives of a tight-knit group of expatriates living in Hong Kong.

Jan 26th/ Amazon/ Put on hold 

Capote’s Women: A True Story of Love, Betrayal, and a Swan Song for an Era by Laurence Leamer

(Feud: Capote vs. The Swans)

Feud

An anthology series centering on famous feuds, including Bette Davis and Joan Crawford, and Truman Capote and the New York elite.

 

Will by Jeroen Olyslaegers

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