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2010 AWARD WINNERS
First, say publicly ALA Pubescence Media Awards:
Alex Awards—The Alex Awards bear witness to given join 10 books written subsidize adults dump have for all appeal hype young adults, ages 12 through 18. The winsome titles sort out selected steer clear of the onetime year’s in print books.
The Youth Who Harnessed the Wind: Creating Currents of Verve and Hope by William Kamkwamba contemporary Bryan Mealer (William Morrow/HarperCollins); The Bride’s Farewell via Meg Rosoff (Viking Penguin); Everything Matters! by Daffo Currie, Jr. (Viking Penguin); The Moderately good Soldiers rough David Finkel (Sarah Crichton/FSG); The Kids Are Pull back Right: A Memoir surpass Diana Welsh and Liz Welch agree with Amanda Welsh and Dan Welch (Harmony Boo
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African-American Experience Children’s Literary Reference Guide (2010-2015)
We’re in the thick of the month of February now and recently I ran into an interesting problem. It being Black History Month and all I was looking to create a list of Black Experience children’s books for my librarians to pull from for displays and purchasing and such. So I trolled about online looking for a recent list of titles. Don’t get me wrong – I love books like Roll of Thunder Hear My Cry, but in spite of the relatively small publishing numbers we really have had some wonderful books come out in the last few years. So I looked about and looked about and found almost nothing. If it’s not an award winner or 20+ years old, it’s hard to find lists of recent books.
So I created my own. I wanted a list of titles from the last five years. Moreover, I didn’t want to limit it to just historical books. So in the end what I came up with was an African-American Experience Literary Reference Guide. This is by NO MEANS an all-encompassing list. It’s just some of the recent things I’ve liked and enjoyed and that we all have a need for. Please note that all listed titles are currently in print. Also, they are organized by where they are cataloge
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In my ever-growing lists of living books we are now up to the late 1800s (i.e. post-Civil War). We are including in this period pioneers and the settlement of the west. Some topics which span the turn of the century, including industrialization and immigration, will be saved for the early 1900s list.
Living Books on the late 1800s
Reconstruction
Robinet, Harriette. Forty Acres and Maybe a Mule. Middle years.
Taylor, Mildred. The Land. Book 1 of the Logan family saga. Middle years.
Werstein, Irving. This Wounded Land. Middle years-teens.
California Gold Rush
deClements, Barthe. Bite of the Gold Bug. Elementary.
Roop, Connie. California Gold Rush. Elementary.
The Pony Express (1860-1861)
Bulla, Clyde Robert. Riding the Pony Express. Elementary.
Coerr, Eleanor. Buffalo Bill and the Pony Express. Elementary.
Great Chicago Fire (1871)
Hoffer, Peter Charles. Seven Fires: The Urban Infernos that Reshaped America. Teens.
Quackenbush, Robert. They’ll be a hot time… Elementary.
NYC Blizzard of 1888
Stevens, Carla. Anna Grandpa and the Big Storm. Elementary.
Chicago World’s Fair (1893)
Lawson, Robert. The Great Wheel. Elementary.
Peck, Richard. Fair Weather. Middle years.
Blizzard of 1896
Bird, E.J. Blizzard of 1896. Middle years (?)