Older Years Nominees
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Form Vote for 2023-2024 Older Years Book Award is opened from March 18th - March 22nd
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🌟 1. The Beatryce Prophecy 🌟
Call Number: F DIC
Author: Kate DiCamillo , illustrated by Sophie Blackall
ISBN: 9781536213614
Publication Date: 2021
Summary: When a child appears at the monastery of the Order of the Chronicles of Sorrowing, Brother Edik nurses her back to health, but when he uncovers her dangerous secret, she is sent away into the world with a goat and a boy.
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2. Cress Watercress
Call Number: F DIC
Author: Kate DiCamillo , illustrated by Sophie Blackall
ISBN: 9781536213614
Publication Date: 2022
Summary: When Papa doesn't return from a nocturnal expedition to gather ginger root and honey, Cress holds out hope, but her mother assumes the worst and decides the family must move to a basement apartment. It's a dangerous world for rabbits, after all.
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3. The Last Cuentista
Call Number: F HIG
Author: Donna Barba Higuera
ISBN: 9781646140893
Publication Date: 2021
Summary: The story follows Petra Peña who, along with her family and a few hundred others, leave Earth to continue the human race after a comet strikes the planet. After awaking on a new planet, Petra is the only one who remembers Earth and must use storytelling to keep her people's history alive.
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4. Finding Junie Kim
Call Number: F OH
Author: Ellen Oh
ISBN: 9780062987983
Publication Date: 2021
Summary: A tale based on true events follows the coming-of-age of a girl who is motivated by an act of racism at school to learn about her ancestral heritage and her grandparents' experiences as lost children during the Korean War.
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5. Amari and the Night Brothers
Call Number: F ALS
Author: B.B Alston
ISBN: 9780062975171
Publication Date: 2021
Summary: Thirteen-year-old Amari, a poor African American girl from the projects, gets an invitation from her missing brother to join the Bureau of Supernatural Affairs and join in the fight against an evil magician. Themes include racial stereotypes.
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