Penguin Random House ALA Midwinter Award Winners & Honorees for Secondary Education
By Kaitlyn Spotts | February 17 2021 | General
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															Every Body Looking is a debut novel in verse in the style of Elizabeth Acevedo and Jason Reynolds. Candice Iloh's book tells the story of Ada--daughter of an immigrant father and an African American mother--and her struggle to find a place for herself in America and in her own family.														
																																																																																																																											
																																	
																$17.99 US
															
																																															
																																																						
																														Sep 22, 2020														
																										
													
																																								
															Hardcover														
																																								
															416 Pages														
																																								
															Dutton Books for Young Readers														
																										
																										
																																																																															
															9780425288085														
																																								
															The saga of the Logan family--made famous in the Newbery Medal-winning Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry--concludes in a deeply fulfilling story, now available in paperback.														
																																																																																																																											
																																	
																$14.99 US
															
																																															
																																																						
																														Jan 05, 2021														
																										
													
																																								
															Paperback														
																																								
															496 Pages														
																																								
															Penguin Books														
																										
																										
																																																																															
															9781984812261														
																																								
															A poignant novel of desperation, escape, and survival across the U.S.-Mexico border, inspired by current events.														
																																																																																																																											
																																	
																$19.99 US
															
																																															
																																																						
																														May 19, 2020														
																										
													
																																								
															Hardcover														
																																								
															368 Pages														
																																								
															Viking Books for Young Readers														
																										
																										
																																																																															- English Language Arts > Genre: Fiction > People & Places by Group > Hispanic & Latinx
- English Language Arts > Genre: Fiction > People & Places by Group > More People & Places by Group…
- English Language Arts > Genre: Fiction > Social Themes > Emigration & Immigration
- English Language Arts > Genre: Fiction > Social Themes > Violence
- History > Topical History > Immigration History
- History > United States History > By Topic > Immigration History
- Social Studies > Anthropology > People and Cultures in the United States > Latinx American
- Social Studies > Anthropology > People and Cultures in the World > Caribbean & Latin America
- Social Studies > Geography > Human Geography
- Social Studies > Sociology > Race / Class / Gender
- Social Studies > Sociology > Social Problems
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															9780525646549														
																																								
															WINNER OF THE 2021 YALSA AWARD FOR EXCELLENCE IN NONFICTION FOR YOUNG ADULTS! SIX STARRED REVIEWS!Discover the dark side of Charles Lindbergh--one of America's most celebrated heroes and complicated men--in this riveting biography from the acclaimed author of The Family Romanov.														
																																																																																																																											
																																	
																$19.99 US
															
																																															
																																																						
																														Feb 11, 2020														
																										
													
																																								
															Hardcover														
																																								
															384 Pages														
																																								
															Schwartz & Wade														
																										
																										
																																																																															
															The People, Technology, and Daring Feats of Science Behind Humanity's Greatest Adventure														
																																								
																																								
															9780525647416														
																																								
															LONGLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD • YALSA EXCELLENCE IN NONFICTION FINALIST • A ROBERT F. SIBERT HONOR BOOKThis beautifully illustrated, oversized guide to the people and technology of the moon landing by award-winning author/illustrator John Rocco (illustrator of the Percy Jackson series) is a must-have for space fans, classrooms, and tech geeks.														
																																																																																																																											
																																	
																$29.99 US
															
																																															
																																																						
																														Oct 06, 2020														
																										
													
																																								
															Hardcover														
																																								
															264 Pages														
																																								
															Crown Books for Young Readers														
																										
																										
																																																																															
															9781984837370														
																																								
															NATIONAL JEWISH BOOK AWARD WINNERA SYDNEY TAYLOR MIDDLE GRADE HONOR BOOK Like Ruta Sepetys for middle grade, Anne Blankman pens a poignant and timeless story of friendship that twines together moments in underexplored history.														
																																																																																																																											
																																	
																$9.99 US
															
																																															
																																																						
																														Jan 19, 2021														
																										
													
																																								
															Paperback														
																																								
															352 Pages														
																																								
															Puffin Books														
																										
																										
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- English Language Arts > Genre: Fiction > Historical Fiction: Events & Periods > Military & Wars
- English Language Arts > Genre: Fiction > Historical Fiction: United States > 20th Century
- English Language Arts > Genre: Fiction > People & Places by Group > Girls & Women
- English Language Arts > Genre: Fiction > Science, Technology, and Travel > The Environment, Recycling, and Green Living
- History > European History > Russia and Eastern Europe > History of Modern Russia
- History > Topical History > Science and Technology
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															A Novel														
																																								
																																								
															9780735216730														
																																								
															"Terrific...deeply felt, beautifully written, and profoundly humane." --The New York Times Book Review cover"Hilarious...A rich and vivid multicultural history." --Time MagazineFrom James McBride, author of the National Book Award-winning The Good Lord Bird and the bestselling modern classic The Color of Water, one of the most anticipated novels of the year: a wise and witty tale about what happens to the witnesses of a shooting.														
																																																																																																																											
																																	
																$18.00 US
															
																																															
																																																						
																														Feb 02, 2021														
																										
													
																																								
															Paperback														
																																								
															400 Pages														
																																								
															Riverhead Books														
																										
																										
																																																																															
															A GMA Book Club Pick (A Novel)														
																																								
																																								
															9780525536291														
																																								
															From The New York Times-bestselling author of The Mothers, a stunning new novel about twin sisters, inseparable as children, who ultimately choose to live in two very different worlds, one black and one white.														
																																																																																																																											
																																	
																$27.00 US
															
																																															
																																																						
																														Jun 02, 2020														
																										
													
																																								
															Hardcover														
																																								
															352 Pages														
																																								
															Riverhead Books														
																										
																										
																																																																															
															9780525657606														
																																								
															England, 1580: The Black Death creeps across the land, an ever-present threat, infecting the healthy, the sick, the old and the young, alike.  														
																																																																																																																											
																																	
																$30.00 US
															
																																															
																																																						
																														Jul 21, 2020														
																										
													
																																								
															Hardcover														
																																								
															320 Pages														
																																								
															Knopf														
																										
																										
																																																																															
															Inside the Mind of an American Family														
																																								
																																								
															9780525562641														
																																								
															Hidden Valley Road is the heartrending story of a midcentury American family with twelve children, six of them diagnosed with schizophrenia, that became science’s great hope in the quest to understand the disease.														
																																																																																																																											
																																	
																$19.00 US
															
																																															
																																																						
																														Mar 02, 2021														
																										
													
																																								
															Paperback														
																																								
															400 Pages														
																																								
															Vintage														
																										
																										
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- Health, Sports, Games, and Crafts > Health & Wellness > Depression & Mental Illness
- Science > Biology & Life Sciences > Genetics & Evolution
- Social Studies > Psychology > Abnormal & Clinical Psychology
- Social Studies > Psychology > More Psychology…
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															A Fight for Sacred Land in the American West														
																																								
																																								
															9780399589720														
																																								
															A powerful work of visual nonfiction about three generations of an Apache family struggling to protect sacred land from a multinational mining corporation, by MacArthur "Genius" and National Book Award finalist Lauren Redniss, the acclaimed author of Thunder & Lightning.														
																																																																																																																											
																																	
																$30.00 US
															
																																															
																																																						
																														Nov 17, 2020														
																										
													
																																								
															Hardcover														
																																								
															288 Pages														
																																								
															Random House														
																										
																										
																																																																															- English Language Arts > Genre: Nonfiction > Graphic Nonfiction > Social Topics
- English Language Arts > Genre: Nonfiction > Literary Journalism
- English Language Arts > Genre: Nonfiction > Narrative & Creative Non-Fiction
- English Language Arts > Genre: Nonfiction > People & Places > Inclusive, Diverse, and Multicultural
- English Language Arts > Genre: Nonfiction > Social Themes > Class Differences
- History > United States History
- History > United States History > By Topic > History of Native Americans
- Social Studies > Anthropology > People and Cultures in the United States > Native American
- Social Studies > Sociology > Race / Class / Gender
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															A Novel														
																																								
																																								
															9780525511502														
																																								
															A dazzling debut novel that sweeps across eras and generations to tell the story of a mother and daughter with a shared talent for healing--and the conjuring of curses.														
																																																																																																																											
																																	
																$18.00 US
															
																																															
																																																						
																														Feb 23, 2021														
																										
													
																																								
															Paperback														
																																								
															416 Pages														
																																								
															Random House Trade Paperbacks														
																										
																										
																																																																															- English Language Arts > Genre: Fiction > Historical Fiction: United States > 19th Century
- English Language Arts > Genre: Fiction > People & Places by Group > African American
- English Language Arts > Genre: Fiction > People & Places by Group > Girls & Women
- English Language Arts > Literature: American > Contemporary
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															9780143133858														
																																								
															From "one of the most impressive voices in poetry today" (Dissent magazine), a new collection that shines a light on forgotten or obscured parts of the past in order to reconstruct a deeper, truer vision of the present														
																																																																																																																											
																																	
																$24.00 US
															
																																															
																																																						
																														Sep 01, 2020														
																										
													
																																								
															Paperback														
																																								
															96 Pages														
																																								
															Penguin Books														
																										
																										
																																																																															
																										
															The Origins of Our Discontents														
																																								
																																								
															9780593230251														
																																								
															Selected for common reading at:														
																																																																																																																											
																																	
																$32.00 US
															
																																															
																																																						
																														Aug 04, 2020														
																										
													
																																								
															Hardcover														
																																								
															544 Pages														
																																								
															Random House														
																										
																										
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