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AY22 Summer Books

Award Winning Books

Looking for some more suggestions? Here are some other prize winning books:

2021 Alex Award winners https://www.ala.org/news/press-releases/2021/01/yalsa-announces-2021-alex-awards

2022 Pulitzer Prizes https://www.pulitzer.org/prize-winners-by-year

2021 Booker Prizes https://thebookerprizes.com/the-booker-library/prize-years/2021

Grades 6 & 7

The Wild Robot by Peter Brown
2021-22 Massachusetts Children's Book Award winner
The Last Cuentista by Donna Barba Higuera
Winner of the 2022 John Newbery Medal
When You Trap a Tiger by Tae Keller
WINNER OF THE 2021 NEWBERY MEDAL
Too Bright to See by Kyle Lukoff
A Newbery Honor Book . Winner of the Stonewall Book Award . A National Book Award Finalist
Front Desk by Kelly Yang
Winner of the 2020-21 Massachusetts Children's Book Award

Grades 8-10

Last Night at the Telegraph Club by Malinda Lo
Winner of the 2021 National Book Award for Young People's literature
Everything Sad Is Untrue by Daniel Nayeri
Winner of the 2021 Michael L. Printz Award
Black Sun by Rebecca Roanhorse 2021 Alex Award winner
The Kids Are Gonna Ask by Gretchen Anthony
A 2021 Alex Award Winner!
Ambushed! by Gail Jarrow
YALSA Award for Excellence in NonFiction for Young Adults

Grades 10+

The Promise by Damon Galgut
WINNER OF THE 2021 BOOKER PRIZE.
Bewilderment by Richard Powers
Shortlisted for the 2021 Booker Prize
Winter in Sokcho by Elisa Shua Dusapin; Aneesa Abbas Higgins (Translator)
2021 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER FOR TRANSLATED LITERATURE
Hell of a Book by Jason Mott
Call Number: FIC MOT
2021 National Book Award for Fiction
Cuba (Winner of the Pulitzer Prize) by Ada Ferrer
WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE IN HISTORY.
Palmares by Gayl Jones
2022 Pulitzer Prize Finalist in Fiction

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