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'Brownstone' Evokes Emotional Response, Wins 2025 Printz Award

2 months ago | slj.com | Jonathan Hunt |Stacey Shapiro |Amanda MacGregor

Samuel Teer knew what to expect when he watched the Youth Media Awards ceremony on Monday morning. He received the news the day before, after finally answering the unknown phone number—three calls and a text later. So when his graphic novel Brownstone was announced as the 2025 Printz Award winner, there should not have been any surprises. But Teer something unforeseen did happen.
Will an Underdog Title Win This Year? | Pondering Printz

Jan 14, 2025 | slj.com | Stacey Shapiro |Amanda MacGregor |Kara Yorio

When you’ve been following the Printz Award as long as I have—26 years and counting—it’s easy to make obvious picks such as Lunar New Year Love Story by Gene Yang and LeUyen Pham, The Enigma Girls by Candace Fleming, and Twenty Four Seconds From Now...A Love Story by Jason Reynolds, highly acclaimed titles from popular authors that would be welcome choices. It’s almost more fun to think about the inevitable surprises that will come.
The Hysterical Girls of St. Bernadette’s

Dec 20, 2024 | slj.com | Hanna Alkaf |Stacey Shapiro

Gr 9 Up–Khadijah stopped talking a long time ago, but her best friends haven’t given up on her. She still attends school at St. Bernadette’s Academy, a prestigious missionary school in Malaysia, and wishes things could go back to normal. Rachel is an overachiever, constantly hearing her mother’s voice in her head to study harder, sleep less, achieve more. But there’s more than that to life, and she wants to take a break and try acting for a change.
2025 Orbis Pictus and Charlotte Huck Award Winners Announced

Dec 9, 2024 | slj.com | Stacey Shapiro |Kara Yorio |Travis Jonker

The NCTE announced the winners of the 2025 Orbis Pictus Award for Outstanding Nonfiction for Children and Charlotte Huck for Outstanding Fiction for Children. The 2025 Orbis Pictus winner is Stealing Little Moon: The Legacy of American Indian Boarding Schoolsby Dan SaSuWeh Jones. The Orbis Pictus honor titles are: Borderlands and the Mexican American Storyby David Dorado Romo, Ode to Grapefruit: How James Earl Jones Found His Voiceby Kari Lavelle, illus.
YALSA Announce Finalists for 2025 Morris and Excellence in Nonfiction Awards

Dec 8, 2024 | slj.com | Stacey Shapiro |Kara Yorio |Travis Jonker |Amanda MacGregor

The Young Adult Library Services Association announced the finalists for the 2025 William C. Morris and Excellence in Nonfiction awards. The five finalists for the 2025 William C. Morris Award, which honors the year’s best books written for young adults by a previously unpublished author, are:Aisle Nine by Ian X.
The Printz Grows Up: High Points in the History of an Influential Award

Dec 5, 2023 | slj.com | Kara Yorio |Stacey Shapiro

"I think we all knew that the award would change the landscape of the literature.”Twenty-three years later, that seems an understatement. Walter Dean Myers 2001 Bookfest screen grab. Public domain image. It’s what Adela Peskorz, professor emerita at Metropolitan State University in St. Paul, MN, was thinking while serving on a brand-new award committee that debuted in 2000.
Printz Winner

Jan 30, 2023 | slj.com | Kara Yorio |Stacey Shapiro |Jonathan Hunt

It will never be finished. It will never be acquired. It will never be published. The story is too weird. The story is too niche. Author Sabaa Tahir spent nearly 20 years writing and rewriting and questioning the effort and end result of the book that would become All My Rage, which was named the 2023 Printz Award winner at Monday's Youth Media Awards ceremony at LibLearnX in New Orleans. Tahir adds the Printz to the National Book Award for Young People's Literature, which All My Rage won in November.
Celebrating Jewish Books on Children

Jan 28, 2023 | slj.com | Travis Jonker |Stacey Shapiro |Kara Yorio

The children's literature world eagerly awaitsMonday's announcement of the 2023 Caldecott, Newbery, and Printz winners, but there is more to the Youth Media Awards than the Big 3.