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2025 ALA Youth Media Awards

The 2025 Youth Media Award announcements will take place on Monday, Jan. 27th at 8:00 a.m. MT during LibLearnX: The Library Learning Experience, the American Library Association’s (ALA) newest conference offering launched in 2022. Those not in Phoenix for LibLearnX can watch a livestream of the award announcements, which will also be available on the American Library Association Facebook page.

To see a list of all of the awards, visit the ALA Youth Media Awards page.

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A Map for Falasteen

A Map for Falasteen: A Palestinian Child’s Search for Home
by Maysa Odeh (Author) and Aliaa Betawi (Illustrator)
@ Amazon | Bookshop

Booktalk: At school, Falasteen and her classmates are tasked with finding their families’ home countries on a map, but no matter how hard she looks, Falasteen can’t find Palestine.

Can a place exist if it’s not on a map? Confused, Falasteen turns to her family for answers. Her grandfather, grandmother, and Mama encourage her to see their homeland from a different perspective, and each of their stories helps her understand her people’s history and her own place in the world.

Snippet: But when it was her turn, Falasteen searched the map and found nothing.

“Miss Baker, why isn’t Palestine on the map?”

Miss Baker looked at the map.

“I think there’s no such place,” Miss Baker said.

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