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BKLYN BookMatch 2016 Challenge: Awards Season

Challenge yourself in 2016! Celebrate the bookish award season by reading some of these award winning titles. This list was created by librarians with the Brooklyn Public Library as a 2016 Reading Challenge. Would you like your own personalized list of reading suggestions? Visit BKLYN BookMatch here:www.bklynpubliclibrary.org/readers-advisory

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The adventures of Beekle
Dan Santat.
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Winner of the 2015 Caldecott Medal presented by the Association for Library Service to Children (ALSC), a division of the American Library Association (ALA).

Last stop on Market Street
words by Matt de la Peäna ; pictures, Christian Robinson.
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Winner of the 2016 Newbery Medal presented by the Association for Library Service to Children (ALSC), a division of the American Library Association (ALA).

Mikis and the donkey
written by Bibi Dumon Tak ; illustrated by Philip Hopman ; translated by Laura Watkinson.
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Winner of the 2015 Batchelder Award for outstanding children’s book originally published in a language other than English in a country other than the United States, and subsequently translated into English for publication in the United States presented by the Association for Library Service to Children (ALSC), a division of the American Library Association (ALA).

Finding Winnie
by Lindsay Mattick ; illustrated by Sophie Blackall.
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Winner of the 2016 Caldecott Medal presented by the Association for Library Service to Children (ALSC), a division of the American Library Association (ALA).

Viva Frida
Yuyi Morales ; photography by Tim O'Meara.
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2015 Illustrator Award Winner of the Pura Belpré Award presented by the Association for Library Service to Children (ALSC), a division of the American Library Association (ALA).

You are (not) small
by Anna Kang ; illustrated by Christopher Weyant.
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Winner of the 2015 Geisel presented by the Association for Library Service to Children (ALSC), a division of the American Library Association (ALA).

The right word
Jen Bryant, Melissa Sweet.
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Winner of the 2015 Robert F. Sibert Informational Book Medal presented by the Association for Library Service to Children (ALSC), a division of the American Library Association (ALA).

Funny bones
Duncan Tonatiuh.
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Winner of the 2016 Robert F. Sibert Informational Book Medal presented by the Association for Library Service to Children (ALSC), a division of the American Library Association (ALA).

Echo
by Pam Muänoz Ryan.
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Winner of the 2015 Kirkus Prize for young readers’ literature and a Newbery 2016 Honor Book.

The crossover
by Kwame Alexander.
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Winner of the 2015 Newbery Medal presented by the Association for Library Service to Children (ALSC), a division of the American Library Association (ALA) and a Coretta Scott King Honor Book.