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Booklists: February

February Favorites

This Is Not a Valentine by Carter Higgins
Call Number: E HIG
Henry and the Valentine Surprise by Nancy Carlson
Call Number: E CAR
Valensteins by Ethan Long
Call Number: E LON
Somebody Loves You, Mr. Hatch by Eileen Spinelli
Call Number: E SPI
Love by Matt de la Peña
Call Number: E DEL
Woof by Sarah Weeks
Call Number: E WEE
How Do Dinosaurs Say I Love You? by Jane Yolen; Mark Teague (Illustrator)
Call Number: E YOL

I Am George Washington by Brad Meltzer
Call Number: 92 WAS
Look for Abraham Lincoln too!
Looking at Lincoln by Maira Kalman
Call Number: 92 LIN
America the Beautiful
Call Number: 973 BRY
Each of our presidents has had a unique vision of America. In AMERICA THE BEAUTIFUL, these ideas are translated into gorgeous illustrations by top artists.
So You Want to Be President? by Judith St. George
Call Number: 973 SAI
The Camping Trip That Changed America by Barb Rosenstock
Call Number: 979.4 ROS

Brown Girl Dreaming by Jacqueline Woodson
Call Number: FIC WOO
D Is for Drinking Gourd by Nancy I. Sanders
Publication Date: 973.04 SAN
Follow the Drinking Gourd by Jeanette Winter
Call Number: E WIN
Henry's Freedom Box by Ellen Levine
Publication Date: E LEV
I Am Harriet Tubman by Brad Meltzer
Call Number: 92 TUB
ISBN: 9780735228719
The Journey of York by Hasan Davis
Publication Date: 978 DAV
Ona Judge Outwits the Washingtons by Gwendolyn Hooks
Call Number: 92 JUD
A Sweet Smell of Roses by Angela Johnson
Call Number: E JOH
Unspoken by Henry Cole
Call Number: FIC COL

Newbery Award

New Kid by Jerry Craft (Illustrator)
Call Number: Graphic Novels
Also received Coretta Scott King Author Award
Other Words for Home by Jasmine Warga
Call Number: FIC WAR
Scary Stories for Young Foxes by Christian McKay Heidicke
Call Number: FIC HEI

Caldecott Award

The Undefeated by Kwame Alexander; Kadir Nelson (Illustrator)
Call Number: 811 ALE
Also received Newbery Honor, and Coretta Scott King Illustrator Award.
Bear Came Along by Richard T. Morris; LeUyen Pham (Illustrator)

Schneider Family Book Award

Just Ask! by Sonia Sotomayor; Rafael López (Illustrator)

Robert F. Sibert Informational Book Award

Fry Bread by Juana Martinez-Neal (Illustrator); Kevin Noble Maillard