APALA & AILA Release their Literature Award Winners

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To see APALA's Full Literature Awards Winners and Honorees, please click here

To see AILA's Full Literature Awards Winners and Honorees, please click here

Below are the winners in the Children's, Youth, and Young Adult Categories:

Picture Book Award:

  • “The Christmas Coat: Memories of My Sioux Childhood”, written by Virginia Driving Hawk Sneve, illustrated by Ellen Beier and published by Holiday House
  • “The House Baba Built: An Artist’s Childhood in China,” writtenby Ed Young and published by Little, Brown Books

Children's Literature Award:

  • “Free Throw” and “Triple Threat”, both written by Jacqueline Guest and published by James Lorimer & Company Ltd.
  • “The Great Wall of Lucy Wu,” written by Wendy Wan-Long Shang and published by Scholastic

Young Adult Literature Award:

  • “Pipestone: My Life in an Indian Boarding School”, by Adam Fortunate Eagle and published by the University of Oklahoma Press
  • “Orchards,” written by Holly Thompson and published by Delacorte Books for Young Readers