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2022 ALA Youth Media Awards

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.

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Danny Chung Sums it Up

Danny Chung Sums It Up
by Maisie Chan (Author) and Natelle Quek (Illustrator)
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Booktalk: Eleven-year-old Danny’s life is turned upside down when his Chinese grandmother comes to live with his family in England. Things get worse when Danny finds out he’ll have to share his room with her, and she took the top bunk! At first, Danny is frustrated that he can’t communicate with her because she doesn’t speak English—and because he’s on the verge of failing math and Nai Nai was actually a math champion back in the day. It just feels like he and his grandmother have nothing in common. His parents insist that Danny help out, so when he’s left to look after Nai Nai, he leaves her at the bingo hall for the day to get her off his back. But he soon discovers that not everyone there is as welcoming as he expected . . .

Snippet:

Listen to the author read an excerpt. FYI: In the UK, the title is Danny Chung Does Not Do Maths.

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