The last few weeks I have been teaching students in grades K-8 about Award Winning books. I love to book talk books just enough to entice student interest in this year's Award Winning books. Below is a list of award winning books to encourage your students to read this summer.
Newbery Award: Dead in Norvelt by Jack Gantos
Newbery Honor: Inside Out & Back Again by Thanhha Lai and
Breaking Stalin's Nose by Eugene Yelchin
Coretta Scott King Author Award Winner: Heart and Soul: The Story of America and African Americans written and illustrated by Kadir Nelson
Coretta Scott King Illustrator Award Winner: Underground: Finding the Light to Freedom illustrated by Shane W. Evans
Pura Belpre Author Award Winner: Under the Mesquite by Guadalupe Garcia McCall
Pura Belpre Illustrator Award Winner: Diego Rivera: His World and Ours written and illustrated by Duncan Tonatiuh
Pura Belpre Illustrator Honor Books: The Cazuela that the Farm Maiden Stirred illustrated by Rafael López and Marisol McDonald Doesn’t Match /Marisol McDonald no combina illustrated by Sara Palacios
Caldecott Award: A Ball for Daisy written and illustrated by Chris Raschka
Caldecott Honor: Blackout written and illustrated by John Rocco; Grandpa Green written and illustrated by Lane Smith; and Me … Jane written and illustrated by Patrick McDonnellFor more ideas go to the American Library Associations book and media awards page at http://www.ala.org/alsc/awardsgrants/bookmedia
Books to promote to high school students include the following award winning books.
Printz Award: Where Things Come Back by John Corey Whaley
Printz Honor: Why We Broke Up written by Daniel Handler; The Returning written by Christine Hinwood; Jasper Jones written by Craig Silvey; The Scorpio Races written by Maggie Stiefvater
Schneider Family Book Award: The Running Dream by Wendelin Van Draanen
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