Looking for some great YA or children’s books? We’ve created a special literary mixtape linking to free samples of books by many of the winners of the American Library Association’s (ALA) Youth Media Awards.
Read about all the 2011 winners here. Follow the links below to read the samples. Over the holidays, we made similar mixtapes linking to samples of the Best Books of 2010.
Below, you can find samples for these categories: the John Newbery Medal for the most outstanding contribution to children’s literature winner, the Newbery Honor Books, the Randolph Caldecott Medal winner, the Caldecott Honor Books, the Michael L. Printz Award winner, the Printz Honor Books, the Coretta Scott King (Author) Book Award winner, the King Author Honor Books, the Coretta Scott King (Illustrator) Book Award winner, and the King Illustrator Honor Book.
Ship Breaker by Paolo Bacigalupi
Stolen by Lucy Christopher
Dave the Potter: Artist, Poet, Slave illustrated by Bryan Collier and written by Laban Carrick Hill
Turtle in Paradise by Jennifer L. Holm
Please Ignore Vera Dietz by A.S. King
Lockdown by Walter Dean Myers
Yummy: The Last Days of a Southside Shorty by G. Neri and illustrated by Randy DuBurke
Heart of a Samurai by Margi Preus
Ninth Ward by Jewell Parker Rhodes
Revolver by Marcus Sedgwick
Dark Emperor and Other Poems of the Night written by Joyce Sidman, illustrated by Rick Allen
A Sick Day for Amos McGee illustrated by Erin E. Stead & written by Philip C. Stead
Interrupting Chicken written and illustrated by David Ezra Stein
Jimi Sounds Like a Rainbow: A Story of the Young Jimi Hendrix illustrated by Javaka Steptoe and written by Gary Golio
Nothing by Janne Teller
Moon Over Manifest by Clare Vanderpool
One Crazy Summer by Rita Williams-Garcia