Based on the real-life death of Oscar Grant, this award-winning film proves that racism still exists in modern times – and it can be deadly. The Color Purple is another great film that examines the ugly truths about racism in the United States. While most movies about racism are drama...
Set in 1832, this Newbery Honor book tells the absolutely riveting story of Charlotte, who sets out on a sea voyage from England to Rhode Island. Instead of being chaperoned by other families on the journey, she unexpectedly finds herself alone with the crew and becomes entangled in a nail-...
Honors: National Book Award Finalist Julia is the black sheep of the family. She wants to go away to college, she loves loud music and wearing black and writing. Her sister, Olga, graduated from high school and stayed home with her parents in their Chicago apartment like a good Mexican da...
For four different books published 1975-1980, she won two Newbery Medals and two National Book Awards. She is one of three people to win the two major international awards; for "lasting contribution to children's literature" she won the biennial Hans Christian Andersen Award for Writing in ...
http://www.ala.org/alsc/awardsgrants/bookmedia/newberymedal/newberymedal National Biography Award The National Biography Award was established in 1996 to encourage the highest standards of writing biography and autobiography and to promote public interest in those genres. The National Biography Award is...
Our list of possible Newbery contenders from the first part of 2022 now stands at 63 titles. We added 22 title suggestions in July, and seven of those appear for the first time…those are marked with an asterisk. I took a rough look at how our list so far breaks down in terms of ge...
1 New York Times best-seller and Newbery Honor-winning graphic memoir, animated kids series El Deafo follows Cece as she loses her hearing and finds her inner superhero with a little help from her superhero alter ego El Deafo. El Deafo on Apple TV+ Fraggle Rock: Back to the Rock Apple ...
Book Summary: From the pages of Newbery Medal winner Neil Gaiman’s THE SANDMAN comes the young, pale, perky, fan-favorite character Death in a new Absolute Edition collecting her solo adventures! Featuring the miniseries DEATH: THE HIGH COST OF LIVING #1-3 in which Death befriends a teenage...
+Bob on Books 2021 Reading Challenge. Stretch your reading and get out of your usual reading with this reading challenge as you complete books for each of the 12 prompts. +Book Award Reading Challenge. Read one award winning book each month.This challenge is hosted here at GXO!
both ends meet. Then Mr. Popper has a splendid idea -- the talented penguins will be a sensation on the stage. And so they are... A classic of American humor, this Newbery Honor-winning story of a gentle housepainter and his high-stepping penguins has delighted children for generations....