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The American Library Association (ALA) will announce its Youth Media Awards at 8 a.m. CT, Jan. 24, 2022. Selections will span more than 22 categories, including the coveted Newbery and Caldecott medals, Printz Award and Coretta Scott King Book Awards.

Library professionals, students, publishers, parents and booklovers across the globe will follow results via webstream at ala.unikron.com and ALA’s Facebook and YouTube channels and by following #ALAyma. The event is part of the ALA’s LibLearnX: The Library Learning Experience, held virtually from Jan. 21 – 24, 2022.

After the announcements, ala.unikron.com will feature an award wrap release detailing 2022 selections. Also, an encore presentation of the event will be available at the exact location immediately after the announcements.

Edited to add: Looking for a list of all the winners? Go here.

Hamster Chase (Penguin Young Readers, Level 3)
by Anastasia Suen (Author) and Allan Eitzen (Illustrator)
@ Amazon | IndieBound | Overdrive | WorldCat

Booktalk: When Peter takes the class hamster out of his cage, the hamster escapes. Peter and his friends search the classroom, but every time they come close, Mikey the hamster runs away again! How will Peter and his friends ever get Mikey back into his cage?

Snippet:
Mikey ran toward the classroom door.
Peter, Archie, and Amy ran after him.
“Quick!” said Peter, “close the door.”

This week’s author visit mini-comic answers the question, Do you have a pet? and shows the connection between my childhood pets and this beginning reader story with Ezra Jack Keats’ characters.

Category: beginning reader

2022 ALA Youth Media Awards

Hamster Chase read aloud