Adam's back from ALA Midwinter and brought with him the big list of 2017 Youth Media Award Winners and a whole bunch of advanced reader copies that the whole OverDrive office is excited to read.
Books mentioned in this episode
Quiet Until The Thaw by Alexandra Fuller
The Girl Who Drank the Moon by Kelly Barnhill
Radiant Child by Javaka Steptoe
March: Book Three by John Lewis and Andrew Aydin
The Sun is Also a Star by Nicola Yoon
Magnus Chase and the Gods of Asgard: The Hammer of Thor by Rick Riordan
Strange the Dreamer by Laini Taylor
Bleaker House: Chasing My Novel to the End of the World by Nell Stevens
The Marsh's King Daughter by Karen Dionne
My Cat Yugoslavia by Pajtim Statovci
The Twelve Lives of Samuel Hawley by Hannah Tinti
Celine by Peter Heller
The Wanderers by Meg Howrey
The Stars are Fire by Anita Shreve
The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova
Pachinko by Min Jin Lee
Speed of Life by Carol Weston
Fairy Tale Reform School series by Jen Calonita
If You Ever Want to Bring an Alligator to School, Don't! by Elise Prasley
The full list of YMA awards can be found here.
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