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Newbery Award
2022 Newbery Winner
The Last Cuentista
A girl named Petra Pena, who wanted nothing more than to be a storyteller, like her abuelita. But Petra's world is ending. Earth has been destroyed by a comet, and only a few hundred scientists and their children - among them Petra and her family - have been chosen to journey to a new planet. They are the ones who must carry on the human race. Hundreds of years later, Petra wakes to this new planet - and the discovery that she is the only person who remembers Earth
Four 2022 Honor Books
Red, White, and Whole by Rajani Larocca
A Snake Falls to Earth by Darci Little Badger
Too Bright to See by Kyle Lukoff
Caldecott Medal
2021 Caldecott Medal Winner We Are Water Protectors illustrated by Michaela Goade, written by Carole Lindstrom Water is the first medicine.It affects and connects us all. Water is sacred. My people talk of a black snake that will destroy the land, Spoil the water, wreck everything in its path. They foretold that it wouldn't come for many, many years. Now the black snake is here.