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Celebrate Black History Month with Us!

By MPL Staff on Feb 7, 2014 11:37 AM

A Wreath for Emmett Till by Marilyn Nelson, a Coretta Scott King honor book, uses poetic verse to describe Emmett Till; a fourteen year old boy who was lynched in 1955 for whistling at a white woman while at the grocery store. The illustrations by Philippe Lardy offer powerful, bold symbols that follow the verse. Simeon's Story: An Eyewitness Account of the Kidnapping of Emmett Till…

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Newbery, Caldecott & Printz Award Winners

By MPL Staff on Jan 28, 2014 9:12 AM

Winners of the American Library Association's top awards for children's and YA books, videos and audios, were announced yesterday. Kate DiCamillo wins the Newbery Medal for Flora & Ulysses, her second Newbery win. Rescuing a squirrel after an accident involving a vacuum cleaner, comic-reading cynic Flora Belle Buckman is astonished when the squirrel, Ulysses, demonstrates astonishing powers of strength and flight after being revived. She earned…

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