Weekly Wrap-Up: January 12-18, 2020

Here's a recap of my posts from this week, along with my weekly collection of news, announcements, and booklists I've found while browsing around the internet. Hope you enjoy! :)


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• { 52WRR }: Review of What Is Given from the Heart by Patricia C. McKissack - A review for my weekly feature, { 52 Weeks of Recommended Reading }, where I'm reading one book every week that is an award winner/honor book or has been included on a list of great books.

Awards

• ok clearly I've been under a rock because somehow last week I missed the 2020 NAACP Image Awards nominees announcement - the award is "recognized as the nation’s preeminent multicultural awards show from an African American point of view" (source) and "celebrates the outstanding achievements and performances of people of color in the arts" (source). The award includes Outstanding Literary Work categories for Children and for Youth/Teens.
• 2019 National Consortium for Teaching about Asia (NCTA) Freeman Book Awards winners announced - the award recognizes "quality books for children and young adults that contribute meaningfully to an understanding of East and Southeast Asia" (source).
• 2019 Nation­al Jew­ish Book Awards winners announced - the awards are "intend­ed to rec­og­nize authors, and encour­age read­ing, of out­stand­ing Eng­lish-lan­guage books of Jew­ish interest" (source). The award includes Children's Literature and Young Adult Literature categories.
• 2020 Scott O'Dell Award for Historical Fiction winner announced - the award recognizes a "meritorious book published in the previous year for children or young adults" (source) and is intended to "increase the interest of young readers in the historical background that has helped to shape their country and their world" (source).

Booklists

• Book Riot's 16 of the Best Picture Books About Historical Figures and 33 of the Top Middle Grade Books on Goodreads.
• Brightly's 18 Picture Books That Help Keep Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s Dream Alive.
  
• The Hub's YA Nonfiction for New Year’s Resolutions!
  

New & Upcoming Books

• Book Riot's YA Retellings to TBR in 2020.
  
• BookBub's The Young Adult Books We Can’t Wait to Read in 2020.
  
• Epic Read's preview of Not So Pure and Simple by Lamar Giles.
  
• Good Comics for Kids's This Week’s Comics: Deep Adventures.
  
• Paste Magazine's cover reveals and previews for Kingdom of the Wicked by Kerri Maniscalco, Apple: Skin to the Core by Eric Gansworth, The Summer of Everything by Julian Winters, and When We Were Infinite by Kelly Loy Gilbert.
  
• Publishers Weekly's New Kids' and YA Books: Week of January 20, 2020, plus Noteworthy Novel Sequels: January 2020.