Ada feels the pressure to make money from her major, but she ultimately realizes that dance is what connects, energizes, and sustains her. In this novel in verse, Ada recounts her freshman year as a first-generation student attending a Historically Black College, while simultaneously taking the reader through her younger life. “Every Body Looking” written by Candice Iloh, and published by Dutton Books for Young Readers, an imprint of Penguin Young Readers, a division of Penguin Random House. The games are only a small portion of the story, though, as readers learn about the history of basketball as well as Yang’s personal journey. Gene Luen Yang never would have guessed that he would be working on a graphic novel about a basketball team, but he found inspiration in the men’s varsity team at Bishop O’Dowd High School. “Dragon Hoops” created by Gene Luen Yang, color by Lark Pien, and published by First Second Books, an imprint of Macmillan Children's Publishing Group Told in verse and accompanied by original art, Gansworth’s compelling coming of age story is a moving, illuminating exploration of otherness, intergenerational trauma, and resilience. Gansworth-an enrolled member of the Onandaga Nation-revisits his childhood and teen years spent on a Tuscarora reservation in this ambitious and searing memoir. “Apple (Skin to the Core)” written by Eric Gansworth, and published by Arthur A. “In a unique refugee story Daniel Nayeri takes readers back in time and then brings them face to face with the equally tumultuous middle school years,” said Printz Award Committee Chair Ellen Spring. He layers stories upon stories to create a complex, hilarious, and devastating understanding of memory, family, and perspective. Modeling his storytelling on Scheherazade and not beholden to a western mode, Daniel Nayeri writes a patchwork of memory and anecdote. In an autobiographical novel, middle-schooler Daniel, formerly Khosrou, tells his unimpressed and at times cruel classmates about his experience as an Iranian refugee. The Young Adult Library Services Association (YALSA) today announced the winner during the ALA Midwinter Virtual, held, Jan. Printz Award for Excellence in Young Adult Literature.
Levine, an imprint of Levine Querido, has won the 2021 Michael L. ALA Upcoming Annual Conferences & LibLearnXĬHICAGO – “Everything Sad is Untrue (a true story),” written by Daniel Nayeri and published by Arthur A.Related Groups, Organizations, Affiliates & Chapters.Dealing with censorship challenges at your library or need to get prepared for them? Visit our Fight Censorship page for easy-to-access resources.
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