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ALA Youth Media Awards Edition
Brown Girl Dreaming
Sam and Dave Dig a Hole
Ala Youth Media Awards 2/2/15
Title Talk
Brown Girl Dreaming by Jackqueline Woodson is my favoritebook of 2014. Written in verse, It is Woodson's memoir of growing up in South Carolina and New York City during the time of the Great Migration. I am pulling for it to win the Newberry next week.
Sam and Dave Dig A Hole by Jon Klassen and Mac Barnett is a very popular and much talked about picture book that is about Sam and Dave on a mission. A mission to find something spectacular. So they dig a hole. And they keep digging. And they find . . . nothing. Yet the day turns out to be pretty spectacular after all. I am pulling for it to win the Newberry next week.
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