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<p style="margin:0in;line-height:20.25pt"><strong><u><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;color:#666666">The 2024 William C. Morris Award Finalists</span></u></strong><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;color:#666666"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="margin:0in;line-height:15.75pt"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;color:#666666">The Young Adult Library Services Association (YALSA), selected five books as finalists for the 2024 William C. Morris Award, which honors
the year’s best books written for young adults by a previously unpublished author.
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<p style="margin:0in;line-height:15.75pt"><u><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;color:#666666">Congratulations to the 2024 William C. Morris Award Finalists!</span></u><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;color:#666666"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="margin:0in;line-height:15.75pt"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;color:#666666">• “All the Fighting Parts,” written by Hannah V. Sawyerr and published by Amulet Books, an imprint of ABRAMS<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0in;line-height:15.75pt"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;color:#666666">• “Once There Was,” written by Kiyash Monsef and published by Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, an imprint of Simon & Schuster Children’s
Publishing<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0in;line-height:15.75pt"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;color:#666666">• “Rez Ball,” written by Byron Graves and published by Heartdrum, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0in;line-height:15.75pt"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;color:#666666">• “Saints of the Household,” written by Ari Tison and published by Farrar Straus Giroux Books for Young Readers, an imprint of Macmillan Publishing
Group, LLC<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0in;line-height:15.75pt"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;color:#666666">• "She Is a Haunting,” written by Trang Thanh Tran and published by Bloomsbury YA, a division of Bloomsbury Publishing Inc., part of Bloomsbury
Publishing Plc.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="margin:0in;line-height:15.75pt"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;color:#666666">YALSA will name the 2024 award winner at the
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<p style="margin:0in;line-height:20.25pt"><strong><u><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;color:#666666">The 2024 Excellence in Non-fiction Award Finalists</span></u></strong><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;color:#666666"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="margin:0in;line-height:15.75pt"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;color:#666666">The Young Adult Library Services Association (YALSA), selected five books as finalists for the 2024 Excellence in Nonfiction for Young Adults
Award, which awards the best in nonfiction published for young adults ranging in age from 12 through 18 years, highlighting excellence in writing, research, presentation, and readability for young adults.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="margin:0in;line-height:15.75pt"><u><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;color:#666666">Congratulations to the 2024 Excellence in Non-fiction Award Finalists!</span></u><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;color:#666666"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="margin:0in;line-height:15.75pt"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;color:#666666">• “Accountable: The True Story of a Racist Social Media Account and the Teenagers Whose Lives It Changed,” by Dashka Slater. Farrar Straus
Giroux Books for Young Readers, an imprint of Macmillan Children’s Publishing Group. 9780374314347.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0in;line-height:15.75pt"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;color:#666666">• “America Redux: Visual Stories from Our Dynamic History,” written and illustrated by Ariel Aberg-Riger. Balzer + Bray, an imprint of HarperCollins.
9780063057531.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0in;line-height:15.75pt"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;color:#666666">• “Family Style: Memories of an American from Vietnam,” written by Thien Pham. First Second, an imprint of Macmillan Children’s Publishing
Group. Paperback 9781250809711/Hardcover 9781250809728<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0in;line-height:15.75pt"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;color:#666666">• “From Here,” by Luma Mufleh. Nancy Paulsen Books, an imprint of Penguin Young Readers, a division of Penguin Random House. 9780593354452.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0in;line-height:15.75pt"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;color:#666666">• “Nearer My Freedom: The Interesting Life of Olaudah Equiano by Himself,” by Monica Edinger and Lesley Younge. Zest Books, an imprint of
Lerner Publishing Group. 9781728450988.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="margin:0in;line-height:15.75pt"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;color:#666666">YALSA will name the 2024 award winner at the
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Media Awards</span></span></a></span></strong> on <strong><span style="font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif">January 22, 2024</span></strong>, during the ALA’s
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The Library Learning Experience conference in Baltimore, MD.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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