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With a look back at some of the National Book Award Honored books that celebrate the heroes and heroines of the Civil Rights movement. 

(From top, left to right)

1. Ralph Ellison, Arnold Rampersad (2007 National Book Award Finalist, Nonfiction)

2. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice, Phillip Hoose (2009, National Book Award Winner, Young People’s Literature)

3. Head Off & Split, Nikki Finney (2011 National Book Award Winner, Poetry)

4. Lost Prophet: The Life and Times of Bayard Rustin, John D'Emilio (2003 National Book Award Finalist, Nonfiction)

5.  W.E.B. Du Bois: Biography of a Race: 1868-1919, David Levering Lewis (1993 National Book Award Finalist, Nonfiction)

6. One with Others, C.D. Wright (2010 National Book Award Finalist, Poetry)

7. Malcom X: A Life of Reinvention, Manning Marable (2011 National Book Award Finalist, Nonfiction)

8. Carver: A Life in Poems, Marilyn Nelson (2001 National Book Award Finalist, Young People’s Literature)

9. The Port Chicago 50: Disaster, Mutiny, and the Fight for Civil Rights, Steve Sheinkin (2014 National Book Award Finalist, Young People’s Literature)

10. At Canaan’s Edge: America in the King Years, 1965-1968, Taylor Branch (2006 National Book Award Finalist, Nonfiction)

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“Only 2% of high school seniors in 2010 could answer a simple question about the U.S. Supreme Court’s landmark Brown v. Board of Education decision.”

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“ They takin’ over. We got two of ‘em in our house now, sleepin’ in the same bed. My bed. They all over Baptist Town and Gritney, even in Gee Pee. Freedom House on the same street as us. People from up north keep sending boxes full of books, clothes,...

They takin’ over.

We got two of ‘em in our house now, sleepin’ in the same bed. My bed.

They all over Baptist Town and Gritney, even in Gee Pee.

Freedom House on the same street as us. People from up north keep sending boxes full of books, clothes, shoes, food. Got my good shoes from one of those boxes last yer. But Pap says don’t go there no more. Still, Ree there every day, can’t do nuthin’ with her. She singnig and reading and writing at that Freedom School. Ma'am say, “let her be,” and Pap shake his head and sharpen his mower blades

Police drive through, slow, every day, watchin’, looking for invaders.

Ma'am scared about that, but still, she feed them. Freedom Righters crowder peas and pinto beans and turnip greens at our table, then they wash at our pumps, sleep in our beds.

 They knock on everybody’s doors. “Register to vote! Be a first-class citizen!”

 Some folks crazy, they say yes. Some slam doors to they faces. Miss Neddie Ruth Adams, she throw a skillet at a SNCC’s head and yell, “Git!” But they don’t git.

 They go out to the plantations, too. “Register!”

 Some SNCC colored. Some white. They all cockeyed to a rooster.

 And the white men drive by in they slow cars, so everybody afraid.

Image and text excerpted from Revolution, book II of Deborah Wiles’ Sixties Trilogy and a Finalist for the 2014 National Book Award for Young People’s Literature. 

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On Wednesday, at a New York City ceremony packed as much with jabs at Amazon as with jazzy entrance music, the National Book Foundation crowned a newcomer: Former Marine Phil Klay took home the National Book Award for fiction, winning the prize for his debut short story collection Redeployment.

Klay, who had been deployed in Iraq, appeared taken aback by the honor on stage.

"I can’t think of a more important conversation to be having — war’s too strange to be processed alone," he said in his acceptance speech. "I want to thank everyone who picked up the book, who read it and decided to join the conversation."

Awards were also handed out to Louise Gluck for her poetry collection Faithful and Virtuous Night, Evan Osnos for his nonfiction book Age of Ambition: Chasing Fortune, Truth, and Faith in the New China and Jacqueline Woodson for her young adult memoir Brown Girl Dreaming.

More about last night’s announcement here, and more about the nominees  — including audio readings from each book — here.

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Hanya Yanagihara (Fiction):  One of the less-discussed perks (if one could call it that) of writing fiction is that affords you a perfectly good excuse to ask people all sorts of nosy questions about their jobs. Work – how it gives us an identity, how it gives our lives shape, how it can offer us a different way of seeing ourselves, and others to see us – is an important part of A LITTLE LIFE, and interviewing people (friends and friends of friends) about their careers in architecture, film, and the law was one of the book’s great pleasures. I was surprised, again and again, by my interviewees’ passion and eloquence and generosity, and fascinated by their descriptions of the various micro-societies in which they spent their working lives. 

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Do you remember the first poem you ever memorized? “Hold fast to dreams/ For if dreams die/ Life is a broken-winged bird/ That cannot fly.” It’s just that verse and that’s why that’s in the very beginning of the book. I know it like I know my name.

Do you remember the first poem you ever memorized?

“Hold fast to dreams/ For if dreams die/ Life is a broken-winged bird/ That cannot fly.” It’s just that verse and that’s why that’s in the very beginning of the book. I know it like I know my name.

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Steve Sheinkin (Young People’s Literature):  In researching the Vietnam War and the Pentagon Papers I learned about an incident I think is truly shocking, even in the context of a story full of secrets and lies. With the 1968 election approaching, Richard Nixon, the Republican nominee, successfully undermined peace talks aimed at ending the war. Just days before the election, the talks were finally making progress, and Nixon feared a peace deal would rob him of his best issue – the Democrats’ failure in Vietnam. So Nixon secretly urged the president of South Vietnam to refuse to go to Paris for talks, promising that, if elected, he’d be a better friend to the South than Democrats had been. It worked – and the talks stalled again. And the most incredible part was that Lyndon Johnson knew all about it, thanks to wiretaps and intercepted cables! He privately (and, I’d argue, accurately) called it “treason,” but wasn’t sure he wanted to shock the world days before an election. So it was just one more secret from the American people. 

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Congratulations to the diverse* young adult books honored today at the American Library Association’s Youth Media Awards!

How I Discovered Poetry by Marilyn Nelson, illustrated by Hadley Hooper (Dial Books) — Coretta Scott King (Author) Honor

How It Went Down by Kekla Magoon (Henry Holt and Company) — Coretta Scott King (Author) Honor

When I Was the Greatest by Jason Reynolds (Atheneum Books for Young Readers) — Coretta Scott King/John Steptoe New Talent Author Award

I Lived on Butterfly Hill by Marjorie Agosín, illustrated by Lee White (Atheneum Books for Young Readers) — Pura Belpré (Author) Award Winner

Beyond Magenta: Transgender Teens Speak Out by Susan Kuklin (Candlewick Press) — Stonewall Honor

Girls Like Us by Gail Giles (Candlewick Press) — Schneider Family Book Award Winner

Laughing at My Nightmare by Shane Burcaw (Roaring Brook Press) — YALSA Award for Excellence in Nonfiction for Young Adults (Finalist)

The Port Chicago 50: Disaster, Mutiny, and the Fight for Civil Rights by Steve Sheinkin (Roaring Brook Press) — YALSA Award for Excellence in Nonfiction for Young Adults (Finalist)

Gabi, a Girl in Pieces by Isabel Quintero (Cinco Puntos Press) — William C. Morris Award Winner

I’ll Give You the Sun by Jandy Nelson (Dial Books) — Michael L. Printz Award Winner, Stonewall Honor

Grasshopper Jungle by Andrew Smith (Dutton Books) — Michael L. Printz Honor

This One Summer by Mariko Tamaki, illustrated by Jillian Tamaki (First Second) — Michael L. Printz Honor, Randolph Caldecott Honor

And congratulations to Sharon M. Draper, honored with the Margaret A. Edwards Award for lifetime achievement in writing for young adults!

Check out all the winners of ALA’s Youth Media Awards here.

* Diverse = A book about a main character who is of color, disabled, and/or LGBTQ; or a book written by an author who is of color, disabled, and/or LGBTQ.

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