![]() Jerry Craft won this year's Newbery Medal for the most outstanding contribution to children's literature for New Kid, a book focused on the struggles of a seventh grade student of color who has been sent to a prestigious private school with little diversity. Enter: the annual Youth Media Awards, a slew of children's book prizes announced Monday, including the John Newbery and Randolph Caldecott medals. So naturally, when a whole bunch of them get together for the American Library Association's annual midwinter conference, you can expect a host of recommendations to come of it. Librarians, after all, are always a font of good book suggestions. It is a universally acknowledged truth that a curious reader in want of a good book needs only direct their footsteps (and questions) to the nearest librarian. ![]() The book won the Caldecott Medal on Monday at the annual Youth Media Awards in Philadelphia. A glimpse inside The Undefeated, illustrated by Kadir Nelson and written by Kwame Alexander. ![]()
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