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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Learn more: ALA website.

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If you enjoyed “Dog Man”, try these books!

If you enjoyed the “Dog Man“, here are some more books and authors you might like!

InvestiGators / by John Patrick Green

On their first mission together, alligator detectives Mango and Brash must uncover the clues, crack the case, and corral the crooks before the criminals wriggle out of their grasp.

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Cover imagePress Start / Thomas Flintham

When King Viking and his evil robot army attack Animal Town, and kidnap Singing Dog, it is up to Super Rabbit Boy, with some help from Sunny and his video game console, to save the day.

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Cover imageMax Meow / John Gallagher

After taking a bite of a radioactive space meatball, Max, a regular cat living in Kittyopolis, gains superpowers and begins to fight crime alongside his scientist friend Mindy

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Cover imagePizza and Taco /Stephen Shaskan

Best friends Pizza and Taco agree on nearly everything until Pizza declares himself the best of all, leading to debating, voting, competing, and finally defining what being the best really means.

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 Cover imageNarwhal and Jelly /  Ben Clanton

A happy-go-lucky, waffle-loving narwhal and a cynical, no-nonsense jellyfish forge an unlikely friendship and share adventures while exploring the ocean together.

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The Bad Guys / Aaron Blabey

The Bad Guys, Mr. Wolf, Mr. Shark, Mr. Snake, and Mr. Piranha, want to be heroes, and they decide that the way to do it is free the 200 dogs in the city dog pound–but their plan soon goes awry.

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Cover imageCatwad / Jim Benton

Collects the adventures of Catwad, a grouchy blue cat, and his best friend, a happy-go-lucky cat named Blurmp who can see the bright side of anything.

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Cover imageBig Nate / by Lincoln Peirce

Nate Wright is an eleven-year-old sixth grader who has the distinction of setting the record for school detentions.

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Childrens Books for Hispanic Heritage Month

Hispanic Heritage Month is September 15th-October 15th and all month long we’re sharing a list of books to celebrate! This week we’re showcasing different Childrens chapter books celebrating Hispanic heritage or written by Hispanic authors!

Lola Levine is not mean! / Monica Brown

Second-grader Lola has a wonderful family, a great teacher, and the best friend ever, Josh, and they all help her feel better after she is teased and forbidden to play team sports at recess for having accidentally hurt classmate Juan during a soccer game.

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Catalina incognito / Jennifer Torres

Eight-year-old Catalina Castañeda uses Taia Abuela’s sewing kit to turn ordinary clothing into a magical disguise, enabling her to uncover a thief at the local library.

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Amazon cover imageMarcus Vega doesn’t speak Spanish/ Pablo Cartaya

After a fight at school leaves Marcus facing suspension, Marcus’s mother takes him and his younger brother, who has Down syndrome, to Puerto Rico to visit relatives they do not remember or have never met, and while there Marcus starts searching for his father, who left their family ten years ago and is somewhere on the island.

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Falling short / Ernesto Cisneros

Best friends Isaac and Marco face various challenges in sixth grade, such as Isaac getting better grades, Marco winning a spot on the basketball team, and both seeing their efforts make a change in their respective family lives. They hope their friendship and support for one another will be enough to help them from falling short.

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Lety out loud / by Angela Cervantes

Lety Muñoz’s first language is Spanish, and she likes to take her time putting her words together. She loves volunteering at the Furry Friends Animal Shelter because the dogs and cats there don’t care if she can’t always find the right word. When the shelter needs a volunteer to write animal profiles, Lety jumps at the chance. But grumpy classmate Hunter also wants to write profiles–so now they have to work as a team. Hunter’s not much of a team player, though. He devises a secret competition to decide who will be the official shelter scribe. Whoever helps get their animals adopted the fastest wins. The loser scoops dog food. Lety reluctantly agrees, but she’s worried that if the shelter finds out about the contest, they’ll kick her out of the volunteer program. Then she’ll never be able to adopt Spike, her favorite dog at the shelter!

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Stella Diaz has something to say / Angela Dominguez

When her class is assigned a project where each student must speak on their favorite subject, Stella Diaz, who sometimes lapses into Spanish and pronounces words wrong, must overcome her fear of public speaking.

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Nightlights / Lorena Alvarez

When a mysterious girl appears at school and learns of Sandy’s drawings, that she creates from the tiny stars that appear in her room at night, Morfie’s fascination soon turns into something sinister.

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The first rule of punk / Celia C. Pérez

Twelve-year-old María Luisa O’Neill-Morales (who really prefers to be called Malú) reluctantly moves with her Mexican-American mother to Chicago and starts seventh grade with a bang–violating the dress code with her punk rock aesthetic and spurning the middle school’s most popular girl in favor of starting a band with a group of like-minded weirdos.

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Lotera̕ / Karla Arenas Valenti

In Oaxaca City, Mexico, ancient friends Life and Death discuss free will while engaged in a game of chance, with eleven-year-old Clara as the protagonist of their theories and a pawn in their game, moving inevitably towards her ultimate fate. Includes author’s notes and reader’s guide.

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Merci Suárez changes gears / Meg Medina

Merci Suárez knew that sixth grade would be different, but she had no idea just how different. For starters, Merci has never been like the other kids at her private school in Florida, because she and her older brother, Roli, are scholarship students. They don’t have a big house or a fancy boat, and they have to do extra community service to make up for their free tuition. So when bossy Edna Santos sets her sights on the new boy who happens to be Merci’s school-assigned Sunshine Buddy, Merci becomes the target of Edna’s jealousy. Things aren’t going well at home, either: Merci’s grandfather and most trusted ally, Lolo, has been acting strangely lately — forgetting important things, falling from his bike, and getting angry over nothing. No one in her family will tell Merci what’s going on, so she’s left to her own worries, while also feeling all on her own at school.

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Tight / Torrey Maldonado

After his quick-tempered father gets in a fight and is sent back to jail, sixth-grader Bryan, known for being quiet and thoughtful, snaps and follows new friend Mike into trouble.

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Witchlings / Claribel A. Ortega

Every year, in the magical town of Ravenskill, Witchlings who participate in the Black Moon Ceremony are placed into covens and come into their powers as full-fledged witches. And twelve-year-old Seven Salazar can’t wait to be placed in the most powerful coven with her best friend! But on the night of the ceremony, in front of the entire town, Seven isn’t placed in one of the five covens. She’s a Spare! Spare covens have fewer witches, are less powerful, and are looked down on by everyone. Even worse, when Seven and the other two Spares perform the magic circle to seal their coven and cement themselves as sisters, it doesn’t work! They’re stuck as Witchlings and will lose their magic. Seven invokes her only option: the impossible task. The three Spares will be assigned an impossible task: If they work together and succeed at it, their coven will be sealed and they’ll gain their full powers. If they fail… Well, the last coven to make the attempt ended up being turned into toads. Forever. But maybe friendship can be the most powerful magic of all..

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