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February 2023 Edition
Spotlight on Book Awards!
It's book award season! Here at TeachingBooks we love this magical time of year when we update our collection of more
than 140 national book awards and distinctions. Dive into TeachingBooks' complete collection of awards, then...
- Filter awards by your interests like: grade level, curricular area, cultural experience, and genre
- Explore an additional 400+ state and provincial reading programs (Pro tip: search by your state or province name to hone
in)
And just for fun, here is one, always-updated collection of Recent Book Award Winners & Honorees, where we display for
you the titles that most recently won each national book award.
- Enjoy more than 21,000 resources for these current titles
- Play concentration with these beautiful covers
- Sort to see titles that won the most awards
Enjoy celebrating these awards and distinguished titles. Email me with questions or if you find a favorite resource!
Nick Glass
Founder & Head
TeachingBooks and Book Connections
nick@TeachingBooks.net
Meet-the-Author Recording: Freewater with Amina Luqman-Dawson
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In this Meet-the-Author recording, we celebrate the 2023 John Newbery Medal and 2023 Coretta Scott King Author Award
title, Freewater (Little, Brown, 2022). Listen to author Amina Luqman-Dawson describe her inspiration for and research
behind the book, and her wish to empower readers to connect to the main character Homer and the secret community of
Freewater.
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Meet-the-Author Recordings
And the Winner is... Award-Winning Titles with TeachingBooks
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Keep up with the latest award-winning titles receiving both state and national honors. Discover resources for
hundreds of books from dozens of authoritative lists.
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Thursday, February 23, 2023 12:30 CT
Don't worry if you can't attend live. Sign up and receive a recording.
Featured Booklist: Best Fiction for Young Adults
More than 1,000 books have made the Best Fiction for Young Adults book list since 2011. Choose from among the 800+
lesson ideas to bring the best of the best of YA literature into your classroom.
Explore all Booklists on
TeachingBooks
Behind the Books: "The Making of Worm and Caterpillar are Friends"
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Whether you're looking to celebrate Valentine's Day, acceptance, or storytelling, enjoy the backstory of the friendship
between a worm who values continuity and a caterpillar destined to change. This month, Kaz Windness sketches out her
process for creating her graphic novel for beginning readers, Worm and Caterpillar are Friends (Simon & Schuster, 2023).
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Priyanka Taslim on Teaching and Writing
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In this For Teachers, By Teachers post, author Priyanka Taslim talks about wanting to give her students, and herself,
books with characters like them that are full of joy and escapism. Read more about how she wants her book, The
Love
Match (Simon & Schuster, 2023) to reflect their experiences and also provide that joy.
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Teachers posts
Leonard S. Marcus on Mr. Lincoln Sits for His Portrait
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Leonard S. Marcus talks about his latest middle grade biography on "America's first media-savvy president", Mr.
Lincoln Sits for His Portrait: The Story of a Photograph That Became an American Icon (Macmillan, 2023). Visit the blog
tour to hear what inspired this book about Abraham Lincoln through the lens of an iconic photograph.
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posts
Watch Jasmine Warga Compete in the Author Fan Face-off
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This month's Face-off features mega-fan
Sydney and author Jasmine Warga answering questions about A Rover's Story
(HarperCollins, 2022). Discover the story of Resilience, a Mars Rover with six legs, two brains, and far more feelings
than you might expect.
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on TeachingBooks
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Episodes
Contests & Giveaways
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Check out our February Contests &
Giveaways, accompanied by multimedia resources!
- The Gentle Genius of Trees by Philip Bunting (Random House, 2023)
- Patterns Everywhere by Lisa Varchol Perron (Lerner, 2023)
- A Take-Charge Girl Blazes a Trail to Congress by Gretchen Woelfe & Rebecca
Gibbon (Astra, 2023)
- Rebel Seoul by Axie Oh (Lee & Low, 2017)
- And More!
See the February Contests &
Giveaways on our blog.
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