Barnes & Noble announces shortlist for Children s and YA Book Awards Mary Cadden, USA TODAY
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Barnes & Noble announced the nominees for their Children s and YA Book Awards Monday. The awards honor titles that have been published during the past year (March 2020 to March 2021).
This is the first year for the awards, in which Barnes & Noble book buyers and sellers single out titles by new authors, and authors early in their careers, that they consider exceptional. The categories include children, young reader and young adult novels.
“We are very proud as a bookseller to support the careers of authors,” said James Daunt, CEO of Barnes & Noble. “It is especially exciting to bring truly outstanding talent to everyone’s attention. Our booksellers have assembled a shortlist of stunning quality and these Awards will launch hitherto lesser-known authors on long and glittering careers.”
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Punching the Air by Ibi Zoboi and Yusef Salaam
Punching the
Air is a fictional story about Amal Shahid, a young, beautiful and brilliant artist and poet, who falls victim to a crime he did not commit. His coming-of-age story comes about in a predominately White art school that does not care to educate or cultivate his promise and talent or evolve beyond their racist rules and regulations.
Written in verse, Shahid, a self-proclaimed “old soul,” pens poetry and uses art to illustrate the deep passion he shelters while his life is upended. He writes as he is shuttled from the classroom to the courtroom and finally into a juvenile detention center.
by Ibi Zoboi and Yusef Salaam
Yusef Salaam pulls from his experience as part of the âExonerated Fiveâ and lends it to award-winning author Ibi Zoboiâs heartbreaking story of the price that comes with being in the wrong place at the wrong time in the wrong skin color. Amal Shahid, a gifted poet and artist of 16, finds himself in the unimaginable position of being convicted of a crime that he did not commit. Now Amal faces nothing but time.
Time to think about the injustices of a broken system. Time to think about how the color of his skin can define his future. Time to think about the power of words, and whether he will let them bind him or use them as a means to set himself free.
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