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1 | State/ Commonwealth/ District/ Territory | ID Number | Affiliate's Email | Author(s) | Illustrator(s) if any | Title | Publisher | ISBN Number | Jacket cover | Author's website | Author's social media handles if available | ONE Sentence about the book | Estimated Date that your center might have your resources to celebrate your book choice ready for the LOC to link to | URL for LOC to link to your Great Reads information | |
2 | Alabama | 1 | pearc007@ua.edu | Charles Ghigna | Annie Wilkinson | The Night the Forest Came to Town | Orca Book Publishers | 9781459816503 | https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-fZA_7btqi3A/Wn6EysKntoI/AAAAAAAAFL8/tGMIYaxq5-ssXg8wihXxL0do-sTob_woACLcBGAs/s640/%2B%2B%2B%2B%2B%2B%2B%2B%2B%2B%2B%2B%2BCOVER.jpg | https://www.charlesghigna.com/ | https://www.facebook.com/charlesghigna https://twitter.com/fathergooze | With vibrant and engaging illustrations, this picture book sings the story of a paved parking lot returning to a paradise. | |||
3 | Alaska | 2 | plbrannon@alaska.edu | Tricia Brown | Roy Corral (Photographs) | Children of the First People: Fresh Voices of Alaska's Native Kids | Alaska Northwest Books an imprint of West Margin Press | 9781513261973 | https://www.westmarginpress.com/book-details/9781513261973/children-of-the-first-people/ | http://triciabrownbooks.com/ | Presents the voices of a new generation of young Alaska Natives and how they celebrate their unique cultures and traditions from the southeast rainforest to the arctic tundra. | July | |||
4 | Arizona | 4 | dthrockmorton@azlibrary.gov | Kevin Maillard | Juana Martinez-Neal | Fry Bread: A Native American Family Story | Roaring Brook Press | 9781626727465 | https://www.kevinmaillard.com/ | https://twitter.com/noblemaillard; https://www.instagram.com/noblemaillard/ | Told in lively and powerful verse by debut author Kevin Noble Maillard, Fry Bread is an evocative depiction of a modern Native American family, vibrantly illustrated by Pura Belpre Award winner and Caldecott Honoree Juana Martinez-Neal. | July | https://azlibrary.gov/libdev/arizona-center-book | ||
5 | Arkansas | 5 | karen.oconnell@arkansas.gov | Roberson, Emily | n/a | Lifestyles of Gods & Monsters | Farrar, Straus, & Giroux | 9780374310622 | https://www.emilyrobersonbooks.com/press-kit-1 | https://www.emilyrobersonbooks.com/ | instagram: @robersonemilym; twitter: @RobersonEmily; tumblr: @EmilyRoberson; facebook: @emilymroberson. | Greek mythology meets the Kardashians in Emily Roberson's Lifestyles of Gods and Monsters, a fresh, fast-paced debut young adult novel about celebrity culture, family dynamics, and finding love amidst it all. | July 24 | https://www.library.arkansas.gov/programs/arkansas-center-for-the-book/great-reads/2020-great-read-lifestyles-of-gods-monsters/ | |
6 | California | 6 | jrobbins@calbook.org | Quintero, Isabel | Pene, Zeke | My Papi Has a Motorcycle | Penguin Random House | 9780525553410 | https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/588648/my-papi-has-a-motorcycle-by-isabel-quintero-illustrated-by-zeke-pena/ | https://laisabelquintero.com | Facebook: @IsabelQuinteroAuthor / Twitter: @isabelinpieces | Now | https://www.cla-net.org/general/custom.asp?page=113 | ||
7 | Colorado | 7 | jones@coloradohumanities.org | Jean Reidy | Lucy Ruth Cummins | Truman | Atheneum Books for Young Readers, Simon & Schuster | 9781534416642 | https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Truman/Jean-Reidy/9781534416642 | https://jeanreidy.com | After his best friend Sarah leaves for her first day of school, a tortoise named Truman goes on an adventure across the living room and learns to be brave in this thoughtful and heartwarming twist on a first experience story. | June 15 | |||
8 | Connecticut | 8 | lcomstock@cthumanities.org | Craft, Jerry | Craft, Jerry | New Kid | HarperCollins | 9780062691200 | https://jerrycraft.com/press-kit/ | https://jerrycraft.com | FB: https://www.facebook.com/jerrycraftbooks/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/JerryCraft Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/919377.Jerry_Craft Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/jerrycraft/ | Jordan Banks is enrolled in a pretigious private school, where it turns out he is one of the few kids of color. This graphic novel tells the story of being the new kid in a very different school. | TBD. Waiting on author or agent response | https://ctcenterforthebook.org/great-reads | |
9 | Delaware | 9 | patty.langley@delaware.gov | Kelly, Erin Entrada | Erin Entrada Kelly | We Dream of Space | HarperCollins | 9780062747303 | https://drive.google.com/file/d/13m9yBdGh2IQlCLBui2h9Biwlfzb0FnCf/view?usp=sharing | http://www.erinentradakelly.com/ | @ErinEntradaKelly, fb; / @erinentrada twitter | Cash, Fitch, and Bird Thomas are three siblings in seventh grade together in Park, Delaware. In 1986, as the country waits expectantly for the launch of the Space Shuttle Challenger, they each struggle with their own personal anxieties. | mid-July | https://guides.lib.de.us/decfb | |
10 | District of Columbia | 10 | david.quick2@dc.gov | Iwaela, Uzodima | Speak No Evil | Harper Collins | 9780061284922 | https://i.harperapps.com/covers/9780061284922/x300.jpg | https://www.harpercollins.com/author/cr-102788/uzodinma-iweala/ | Iweala tells the story of a first-generation Nigerian-American teen coming out to family in friends in Washington, DC | |||||
11 | Florida | 11 | Mdbryant@broward.org | Victoria Bond and T.R. Simon | Zora and Me" | Candlewick | 763658146 | https://www.candlewick.com/bookxtras.asp?isbn=076365213X&id=&browse=series&view=jacket&jacket=%2E%2Fimages%2Fcwp%5Fbookjackets%2F648%2F%2F076365213X%2Ejpg&bktitle=Zora+and+Me | |||||||
12 | Georgia | 12 | davichj@dekalblibrary.org | Mary Batten (non-Georgian) | Thomas Gonzalez (Georgian) | Life In A Frozen World: Wildlife Of Antarctica | Peachtree | 9781682631515 | https://peachtree-online.com/portfolio-items/life-in-a-frozen-world/ | http://www.tomprints.com/pictures.html | |||||
13 | Hawaii | 13 | Alan Brennert | Daughter of Moloka’i | Griffin | 1250137675 | https://images.macmillan.com/folio-assets/macmillan_us_frontbookcovers_1000H/9781250137661.jpg | ||||||||
14 | Idaho | 14 | Deborah Lee Rose and Jane Veltkamp | Beauty and the Beak | Persnickity Press | 1943978387 | https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51ezGDoP5sL._SY498_BO1,204,203,200_.jpg | ||||||||
15 | Illinois | 15 | bmatheis@ilsos.gov | Matthew Cordell | Matthew Cordell | Hello, Neighbor!: The Kind and Caring World of Mister Rogers | Neal Porter Books, an imprint of Holiday House Books for Young Readers | 9780823446186 | jpeg from publisher emailed to Guy | http://matthewcordell.com/ | https://www.instagram.com/cordell_matthew/ and https://twitter.com/cordellmatthew | Caldecott Medalist, Matthew Cordell, lovingly shares the quiet joy of Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood in the only authorized picture book biography of Fred Rogers. | July - fingers crossed! | https://www.cyberdriveillinois.com/departments/library/center_for_the_book/national-bookfest.html | |
16 | Indiana | 16 | suwalker@library.in.gov | Homoya, Michael and Shane Gibson | Harris, Gillian | Wake Up, Woods | Rubber Ducky Press | 9781947141469 | Indiana Jacket Cover | https://indiananativeplants.org/education/wakeupwoods/ | Wake Up, Woods is a delightful nonfiction and verse picture book showcasing plants native to Indiana specifically, and more broadly, parts of North America. | June 15, 2020 | |||
17 | Iowa | 17 | angie.manfredi@iowa.gov | Swalwell, Katy PhD | multiple | Amazing Iowa Women | RAYGUN (self-published) | forthcoming | Amazing Iowa Women | https://www.amazingiowa.com/ | Celebrate trailblazing, world-changing AMAZING Iowa women in this engaging, empowering book spotlighting the lives and work of extraordinary Iowa women from many generations who all changed the world. | late June/early July | forthcoming | ||
18 | Kansas | 18 | brett.rurode@ks.gov | Allison Lassieur | Eric Freeberg | Journey to a Promised Land: A Story of the Exodusters | Jolly Fish Press | 97816316332754 - Hardcover 9781631632761 - Paperback | https://www.booksonix.com/northstar/9781631632761.jpg | alassieur@gmail.com | https://www.facebook.com/allison.lassieur | Hattie Jacobs dreams of becoming a teacher, but her parents were formerly enslaved and are struggling to survive in Nashville, Tennessee when her family join the Great Exodus of 1879 to Kansas in search of a better life. | https://kslib.info/1456/Great-Reads | ||
19 | Kentucky | 19 | sara.volpi@uky.edu | George Ella Lyon | Jennifer M. Potter | Voices of Justice: Poems About People Working for a Better World | Henry Holt & Company | 9781250263209 | https://images.macmillan.com/folio-assets/macmillan_us_frontbookcovers_1000H/9781250263209.jpg | http://www.georgeellalyon.com/ | https://twitter.com/alreadylily | A bold, lyrical collection of poems that highlight some of the most celebrated activists from around the world and throughout history. | TBD | forthcoming | |
20 | Louisiana | 20 | jdavis@slol.lib.la.us | Johnette Downing | Johnette Downing | Bonfires on the Levee, A Louisiana Christmas Tradition | Pelican Publishing | ISBN 9781455625918 Ebook ISBN 9781455625925 | submitted to Guy | https://www.johnettedowning.com/ | www.facebook.com/johnettedowning
www.twitter.com/johnettemusic www.instagram.com/johnettedowning | Winter festivals of light occur around the world, but in Louisiana, it is bonfires that light the way for Papa Noel, the Cajun Santa Claus, on Christmas Eve, in this counting book for youngsters about a holiday tradition along the Mississippi River. | TBD | To be created on author website | |
21 | Maine | 21 | lizz@mainehumanities.org | Samara Cole Doyon | Kaylani Juanita | Magnificent Homespun Brown | Tilbury House | 9780884487975 | Received by Deziree | www.samaracoledoyon.com | https://www.facebook.com/heartrootfire/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/heartroot_fire Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/heartrootfire | Told by a succession of exuberant young narrators, Magnificent Homespun Brown is a story -- a song, a poem, a celebration -- about feeling at home in one’s own beloved skin. | TBD | Forthcoming | |
22 | Maryland | 22 | alewis@mdhumanities.org | Susan Muaddi Darraj | Ruaida Mannaa | Farah Rocks Fifth Grade | Capstone Press | 9781496583390 | Submitted to Guy | https://susanmuaddidarraj.com/ | Twitter: @susandarraj IG: @susandarraj | ||||
23 | Massachusetts | 23 | shaloo@massbook.org | Peter H. Reynolds | Peter H. Reynolds | The Word Collector | Orchard Books -- Imprint of Scholastic | 9780545865029 | <https://www.dropbox.com/s/ukp4qgqaketv1q6/Word%20Collector%20high%20res%20cover.jpg?dl=0> | https://www.wordcollector.org/ | @peterhreynolds #TheWordCollectors | With vivid illustrations by Kaylani Juanita, Samara Cole Doyon sings a carol for the plenitude that surrounds us and the self each of us is meant to inhabit. | |||
24 | Michigan | 24 | gleisnert@michigan.gov | Pamela Cameron | Renee Graef | Sport: Ship Dog of the Great Lakes | Wisconsin State Historical Press | 9780870209147 | Submitted to Guy | https://sportshipdog.com/events/ | https://www.facebook.com/sportshipdog/ | TBD | |||
25 | Minnesota | 25 | alayne@thefriends.org | Kao Kalia Yang | Seo Kim | A Map into the World | Carolrhoda Books - Lerner Publishing Group | ISBN-13: 9781541538368 | https://lernerbooks.com/shop/show/17915 | https://kaokaliayang.com/ | Twitter: @kaokaliayang / Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/kaokaliayang/ | A Map Into the World - the first published children’s book by a Hmong-American writer, and centered around a Hmong family - explores the changing of seasons and the changing of the "seasons" of life. | 6/30/2020? | https://thefriends.org/minnesota-book-awards/minnesota-book-awards-winners/ | |
26 | Mississippi | 26 | tcarr@mlc.lib.ms.us | Michael Mahin | Evan Turk | Muddy: The Story of Blues Legend Muddy Waters | Atheneum | 9781481443494 | https://www.michaelmahin.com/ | Muddy is the story of the early life of native Mississippian and blues legend Muddy Waters. | July 15 | ||||
27 | Missouri | 27 | aprilroy@kclibrary.org | Daniel Bernstrom | Shane Evans | Big Papa and the Time Machine | Harper Collins | 9780062463319 | https://www.harpercollins.com/9780062463319/big-papa-and-the-time-machine/ | http://www.shaneevans.com/ | Kansas City, Missouri Illustrator, Shane Evans has created a whimsical masterpiece about a boy who learns what it means to be brave with the help of his grandpa. | ||||
28 | Montana | 28 | samantha.dwyer@humanitiesmontana.org | Precious McKenzie | Edward Tanzosh | Cinderyeti | BeaLu Books | 9781734106503 | https://preciousmckenzie.com/my-books/ | https://preciousmckenzie.com | https://www.facebook.com/precious.mckenzie.161 https://www.instagram.com/preciousmckenzie/ | A nice yeti with two bratty stepsisters wants to go to the dance with humans but is told that yetis and people never, ever, ever mix. | July 1 | www.humanitiesmontana.org | |
29 | Nebraska | 29 | tessa.terry@nebraska.gov | Astronaut Clayton Anderson | Scott Brundage | A is for Astronaut: Blasting Through the Alphabet | Sleeping Bear Press | 9781585363964 | https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/812T5rkCKlL.jpg | http://astroclay.com/ | @Astro_Clay | Winner! 2019 Nebraska Book Award Retired astronaut Clayton Anderson takes readers on an A to Z flight through the alphabet from astronaut and blastoff to spacewalk and Zulu Time. | http://centerforthebook.nebraska.gov/index.asp | ||
30 | Nevada | 30 | kkuo@nevadahumanities.org | Kenneth Lamug | Kenneth Lamug | Petro and the Flea King | CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform | 978-1792346781 | https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/5199kuPe3nL._SX321_BO1,204,203,200_.jpg | https://www.rabbleboy.com/ | https://twitter.com/rabbleboy https://instagram.com/rabbleboy https://www.facebook.com/rabbleboy | In this wordless graphic novel, Petro the lazy boy goes on an out-of-this-world adventure as he tries to save a small town from the torments of the Flea King and his minions | July 1 | https://www.nevadahumanities.org/nevada-center-for-the-book | |
31 | New Hampshire | 31 | mary.russell@dncr.nh.gov | Erin Bowman | The Girl and the Witch's Garden | Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers | 9781534461581 | http://www.embowman.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/portfolio_TGATWGCover.jpg | http://www.embowman.com/ | https://www.instagram.com/heyerin/ https://twitter.com/erin_bowman https://www.pinterest.com/erin_bowman/ https://erinbowman.tumblr.com/ | This rich, charming middle grade adventure is about a girl determined to infiltrate her grandmother’s enchanted garden with the help of some magically gifted friends. | 9/1/2020? | tbd | ||
32 | New Jersey | 32 | reneebswartz@gmail.com | David Wiesner | David Wiesner | Robobaby | Clarion Books, an imprint of Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Books for Young Readers | 9780544987319 | http://www.davidwiesner.com/ | @Wiesner_David | Hilarity ensues when robot baby Flange comes home in component parts and his robot parents can't figure out how to put him together - until techie big sister comes to the rescue. | ||||
33 | New Mexico | 33 | lori.thornton@state.nm.us | Rachel Rodriguez | Julie Paschkis | Through Georgia's Eyes | Henry Holt | 9780805077407 | https://images.macmillan.com/folio-assets/macmillan_us_frontbookcovers_1000H/9780805077407.jpg | http://www.rachelrodriguezbooks.com/ | Georgia O'Keefe, the artist, saw the world in a unique way and she found inspiration in New Mexico. | July 1 | https://bookfestival.nmculture.org/ | ||
34 | New York | 34 | rocco.staino@gmail.com | Jennifer Thermes | Jennifer Thermes | Manhattan: Mapping the Story of an Island | Harry N. Abrams | 9781419736551 | https://we.tl/t-d00jqAFwGO | https://jenniferthermes.com | https://www.instagram.com/jenniferthermes/ | Told in dazzling maps and informative sidebars, Manhattan explores the 400+ year history of Manhattan Island. | June 15 | https://www.nyla.org/2020-great-read/?menukey=CFTB | |
35 | North Carolina | 35 | mgiblin@nchumanities.org | Michelle Lanier | Dare Coulter | MY NC From A to Z | North Carolina Department of Natural and Cultural Resources-Historical Research Office, Division of Historical Resources and the North
Carolina African American Heritage Commission | 9780865264991 | https://aahc.nc.gov/resources/my-nc-z | This colorful board book celebrates pride of place and creates connections to North Carolina's rich African American heritage. | 9/1/2020 | nchunanities.org | |||
36 | North Dakota | 36 | ssandwick@nd.gov | Louise Erdrich | The Night Watchman | HarperCollins | 9780062671202 | https://i.harperapps.com/covers/9780062671189/y648.jpg | https://birchbarkbooks.com/blog | https://www.facebook.com/louiseerdrichauthor/ | Based on the extraordinary life of National Book Award-winning author Louise Erdrich’s grandfather who worked as a night watchman and carried the fight against Native dispossession from rural North Dakota all the way to Washington, D.C., this powerful novel explores themes of love and death with lightness and gravity and unfolds with the elegant prose, sly humor, and depth of feeling of a master craftsman. | ||||
37 | Ohio | 37 | don@cpl.org | Douglas Brinkley | American moonshot : John F. Kennedy and the Great Space Race (Young Readers' Edition) | HarperCollins | 9780062660282 | https://i.harperapps.com/covers/9780062660282/y648.jpg | http://douglasbrinkley.com/ | New York Times bestselling author and historian Douglas Brinkley delivers a young readers’ edition of a story rooted in heroism, bravery, and patriotism: America’s race to the moon. (excerpt from publisher) | 9/1/2020 | https://ohiocenterforthebook.org/ | |||
38 | Oklahoma | 38 | connie.armstrong@libraries.ok.gov | Hannah E. Harrison | Hannah E. Harrison | Bear is Awake! | Penguin Random House | 9780399186660 | www.hannaheharrison.com | ||||||
39 | Oregon | 39 | susan.b.westin@state.or.us | Katherine Roy | Katherine Roy | How to be an Elephant | David Macaulay Studio | 9781626721784 | http://katherineroy.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/ElephantFinalCover.jpg | katherineroy.com | https://www.instagram.com/katherineroystudio/ https://www.facebook.com/KatherineRoyAuthorIllustrator https://twitter.com/KRoyStudio | This book tells what it takes for a baby African elephant to grow up on the savanna. | |||
40 | Pennsylvania | 40 | kms454@psu.edu | Jen Bryant | Cannaday Chapman | Feed Your Mind: A Story of August Wilson | Abrams | 1419736531 | A biography of August Wilson, a two-time Pulitzer Prize winning playwright. He had a talent for capturing the authentic, everyday voice of black Americans. The book includes an author's note, a timeline of Wilson's life, a list of his plays and a bibliography. | 9 /12020 | |||||
41 | Puerto Rico | 41 | Isset M. Pastrana-Andino | Mi isla bella, mi isla hermosa | Aparicio Distributors | ||||||||||
42 | Rhode Island | 42 | kate@ribook.org | Padma Venkatraman | The Bridge Home | Penguin Random House | 9781524738136 | http://padmavenkatraman.com | https://www.facebook.com/venkatraman.padma Twitter:@padmatv Instagram: venkatraman.padma | Four determined homeless children make a life for themselves in Padma Venkatraman's stirring middle-grade debut. | June 15 | ribook.org | |||
43 | South Carolina | 43 | acook@statelibrary.sc.gov | Jacquline Woodson | James Ransome | This is the Rope | Puffin Books | 425288943 | https://www.google.com/search?q=this+is+the+rope&rlz=1C1GCEJ_enUS870US870&sxsrf=ALeKk03nlk79vkWpbu1fLRS4pjE-i8vNYQ:1591111428293&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwimrOz7t-PpAhVGY6wKHRMgAxwQ_AUoAXoECCAQAw&biw=1366&bih=625#imgrc=2KN5PleiJi7REM | https://www.jacquelinewoodson.com/ | https://www.facebook.com/Jacqueline.Woodson Twitter: @JackieWoodson Insta: @jacqueline_woodson | The story of one family’s journey north during the Great Migration starts with a little girl in South Carolina who finds a rope under a tree one summer. | ReadSC.org | ||
44 | South Dakota | 44 | jennifer@sdhumanities.org | David Heska Wanbli Weiden | Jim Yellowhawk and Pat Kinsella | Spotted Tail | Reycraft Books | 9781478868910 | http://www.reycraftbooks.com/books/spotted-tail.html | https://davidweiden.com/ | dweiden (Facebook); @WanbliWeiden (Twitter and Instagram); @ReycraftBooks (Twitter); #SpottedTail | A biography of the Lakota leader who expertly guided his people through tumultuous times as they fought and then negotiated with the U.S. government. | late August | http://sdhumanities.org/programs-and-events/great-reads-from-great-places/ | |
45 | Tennessee | 45 | patrick@humtn.org | Rita Lorraine Hubbard | Oge Mora | The Oldest Student: How Mary Walker Learned to Read | Schwartz & Wade | 9781524768287 | https://images4.penguinrandomhouse.com/cover/9781524768287 | https://ritahubbard.com/ | Twitter: @RitaLorraine | From publisher: "Imagine learning to read at the age of 116! Discover the true story of Mary Walker, the nation’s oldest student who did just that ..." | early July | humtn.org | |
46 | Texas | 46 | rmanley@tsl.texas.gov | Thanhhà Lại | Butterfly Yellow | HarperCollins | 9780062229236 | https://i.harperapps.com/covers/9780062229236/y648.jpg | www.thanhhalai.com | Six years after Hằng is seperated from her brother, she makes the brutal journey from Việt Nam to search for her brother in Texas and when she realizes he doesn’t remember her, she will do anything to bridge the gap. | late June/ early July | https://www.tsl.texas.gov/greatreadtexas | |||
47 | Utah | 47 | Edward Abbey | Desert Solitaire | Ballantine | 345326490 | https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51I8u-BR-bL._SX302_BO1,204,203,200_.jpg | ||||||||
48 | Vermont | 48 | jennifer.johnson@vermont.gov | Lindsey Stoddard | Right as Rain | HarperCollins | 9780062652942 | https://i.harperapps.com/covers/9780062652942/x300.jpg | www.lindseystoddard.com | Twitter: @LindseyStoddard - Instagram: @LindseyStoddardWrites | It’s been almost a year since Rain’s bother died, and her parents still have no idea that it’s all her fault, but after her family moves from Vermont to New York City and with the anniversary her brother's death approaching, she will do everything she can to pick up the pieces around her— but will it be enough? | July 31 | https://libraries.vermont.gov/VTGreatRead2020 | ||
49 | Virgin Islands | 49 | Tiphanie Yanique | I Am the Virgin Islands | Little Bell Caribbean | 1934370304 | https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51SX8C+1MDL._SX372_BO1,204,203,200_.jpg | ||||||||
50 | Virginia | 50 | sdlawson@virginia.edu | Kwame Alexander | Kadir Nelson | The Undefeated | Versify imprint, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt | 9781328780966 | https://www.hmhbooks.com/shop/books/The-Undefeated/9781328780966/download/jpg_hres | https://kwamealexander.com/ | https://www.instagram.com/kwamealexander/ https://twitter.com/kwamealexander https://www.facebook.com/KwameAlexanderBooks/ | The Undefeated is a love letter to black life in the United States, highlighting the unspeakable trauma of slavery, the faith and fire of the civil rights movement, and the grit, passion, and perseverance of some of the world's greatest heroes. | June 15 | https://vabookcenter.org/blog/?by-work=great-reads | |
51 | Washington | 51 | sara.pete@sos.wa.gov | Ben Clanton | Ben Clanton | Peanut Butter and Jelly | Penguin Random House | 9780735262461 | https://images2.penguinrandomhouse.com/cover/9780735262461 | http://www.benclanton.com/ | https://www.instagram.com/benclantoon/ https://www.facebook.com/Clantoons/ https://twitter.com/Clantoons | Narwhal’s obsession with his new favorite food leads him into hijinks and hilarity in the third book of this all-star early graphic novel series! | July 20 | http://www.washingtoncenterforthebook.org/nbf2020/ | |
52 | West Virginia | 52 | heather.s.campbell@wv.gov | Sarah Dooley | Free Verse | Puffin Books | 9780147509154 | After the death of her immediate family, Sarah discovers family, and poetry, doesn't take the form you intend. | 9/1/2020 | https://librarycommission.wv.gov/What/wcftb/Pages/default%202.aspx | |||||
53 | Wisconsin | 53 | kathy.j.galvin@gmail.com | Miranda Paul | John Parra | Little Libraries, Big Heroes | Houghton Mifflin Harcourt | 9780544800274 | https://www.hmhbooks.com/shop/books/Little-Libraries-Big-Heroes/9780544800274 | http://mirandapaul.com/ | https://www.facebook.com/AuthorMirandaPaul/ | Little Libraries, Big Heroes is an the inspiring story of how the Little Free Library organization brings communities together through books, from founder Todd Bol's first installation to the creation of more than 75,000 mini-libraries around the world. | https://drive.google.com/file/d/1YNm1sJSnoufZ-TYPRlm5midkFtNdDPAZ/view?usp=drive_web | ||
54 | Wyoming | 54 | susan.mark@wyo.gov | Cheryl O'Brien | World War II POW camps of Wyoming | The History Press | 9781467143820 | https://arcadiacmsprodblob.blob.core.windows.net/cmsstorage/arcadia/metafiles/23/2339dc76-49f8-4ecd-a7a0-75f4ce46de81.png | Exploring a little-known part of the state’s history, O'Brien weaves together historical records, photographs, and personal stories that detail Wyoming's nineteen World War II prisoner of war camps, which housed several thousand incarcerated Italian and German prisoners. | September 1 | https://library.wyo.gov/great-read |