New Episode of Reader's Roundtable
The Reader's Roundtable Podcast features CADL's Collection Development Specialists Jessica Trotter, Mari Garza and Sherri McConnell. This month they discuss the Capital Area Reads featured title The Hate U Give and highlights from the CADL produced resource guide, as well as a segment on the ALA Youth Media awards and some of our recent favorite winners and honor books.
Highlights from the Capital Area Reads Resource Guide
Nonfiction
Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America by Ibram Kendi
So You Want To Talk About Race by Ijeoma Oluo
Fiction
If Beale Street Could Talk by James Baldwin
Friday Black by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah
Children’s Fiction
Hands Up by Breanna J. McDaniel (2019)
Blended by Sharon Draper (2018)
A Good Kind of Trouble by Lisa Ramee (2019)
Movies
Music
The Hate U Give: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack
For more information on Capital Area Reads related events and the Angie Thomas visit check out the landing page here.
ALA Youth Media Awards
Newbery
Merci Suarez Changes Gears by Meg Medina
Hattie Big Sky by Kirby Larson
Hatchet by Gary Paulsen
The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman
Coraline by Neil Gaiman
Caldecott
Hello Lighthouse by Sophie Blackall
Alma and How She Got Her Name by Juana Martinez-Neal
The Rough Patch by Brian Lies
Thank You, Omu! illustrated and written by Oge Mora
The Invention of Hugo Cabret by Brian Selznick
Theodor Geisel Award
Fox + Chick: The Party and Other Stories by Sergio Ruzzier
Tiger vs. Nightmare by Emily Tetri
Stonewall Book Award
Julián Is a Mermaid written by Jessica Love
Hurricane Child written by Kheryn Callender
Michael L. Printz Award
The Poet X by Elizabeth Acevedo
Alex Award Highlights
Circe by Madeline Miller
Educated: A Memoir by Tara Westover
How Long ’Til Black Future Month? by N. K. Jemisin