Filtered Results for 2021-2022, Gallery

Amy Wu and the Perfect Bao

By Kat Zhang, Illustrated by Charlene Chua

Amy loves to make bao with her family. But it takes skill to make the bao taste and look delicious. And her bao keep coming out all wrong. Then she has an idea that may give her a second chance…Will Amy ever make the perfect bao?

Nominated

2021-2022 Gallery Award

Reading Level: 2.6

Published by Aladdin

ISBN# 9781534411333 (HB)

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By and By: Charles Albert Tindley, the Father of Gospel Music

By Carole Weatherford, Illustrated by Bryan Collier

At a time when most African Americans were still enslaved, Charles Tindley was born free. His childhood was far from easy, with backbreaking hours in the fields, and no opportunity to go to school. But the spirituals he heard as he worked made him long to know how to read the Gospel for himself. Late at night, he taught himself to read from scraps of newspapers. From those small scraps, young Charles raised himself to become a founding father of American gospel music whose hymn was the basis for the Civil Rights anthem “We Shall Overcome.”

Nominated

2021-2022 Gallery Award

Reading Level: 3.7

Published by Atheneum Books

ISBN# 9781534426368 (HB)

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Feast of Peas

By Kashmira Sheth, Illustrated by Jeffrey Ebbeler

Hard-working Jiva might not be the only one anticipating a delicious feast of peas from his garden. Every morning, Jiva works in his garden until the sun turns as red as a bride’s sari. He plants peas and beans, potatoes and tomatoes, eggplants and okra in his vegetable patch. When his friend Ruvji admires his plants Jiva sings,
Plump peas, sweet peas,
Lined- up-in-the-shell peas.
Peas to munch, peas to crunch
A feast of peas for lunch.
But each time Jiva is ready to pick the peas for his feast, they’re already gone. What has happened?

Nominated

2021-2022 Gallery Award

Reading Level: 0.0

Published by Peachtree

ISBN# 9781682631355 (HB)

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Gnu and Shrew

By Danny Schnitzlein, Illustrated by Anca Sandu

When Gnu says that there’s a cave filled with diamonds across the river, Shrew is intrigued. But Gnu seems to be all talk, fantasizing about riches yet dismissing all of Shrew’s suggestions. As Gnu dreams his days away, tossing out one big idea after another, Shrew spends his nights trying to make those dreams a reality. Can Gnu’s big ideas and Shrew’s hard work make something remarkable happen?

Nominated

2021-2022 Gallery Award

Reading Level: 0.0

Published by Peachtree

ISBN# 9781682631461 (HB)

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Harlem Grown

By Tony Hillery , Illustrated by Jessie Hartland

Harlem Grown tells the inspiring true story of how one man made a big difference in a neighborhood. After seeing how restless they were and their lack of healthy food options, Tony Hillery invited students from an underfunded school to turn a vacant lot into a beautiful and functional farm. By getting their hands dirty, these kids turned an abandoned space into something beautiful and useful while learning about healthy, sustainable eating and collaboration.

Nominated

2021-2022 Gallery Award

Reading Level: 2.4

Published by Simon & Schuster

ISBN# 9781534402317 (HB)

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Izzy Gizmo and the Invention Convention

By Pip Jones, Illustrated by Sara Ogilvie

Izzy Gizmo has been invited to Technoff Isle’s Genius Convention where the inventor of the best machine will win coveted admittance to the Genius Guild. But with fearsome foe Abi von Lavish getting the best of her at every turn, how can Izzy and Fixer come up with the winning invention?

Nominated

2021-2022 Gallery Award

Reading Level: 0.0

Published by Peachtree

ISBN# 9781471145230 (HB)

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Parker Looks Up: Am Extraordinary Moment

By Parker and Jessica Curry, Illustrated by Brittany Jackson

When Parker Curry came face-to-face with Amy Sherald’s transcendent portrait of First Lady Michelle Obama at the National Portrait Gallery, she didn’t just see the First Lady of the United States. She saw a queen—one with dynamic self-assurance, regality, beauty, and truth who captured this young girl’s imagination. When a nearby museum-goer snapped a photo of a mesmerized Parker, it became an internet sensation. Inspired by this visit, Parker, and her mother, Jessica Curry, tell the story of a young girl and her family, whose trip to a museum becomes an extraordinary moment, in a moving picture book.

Nominated

2021-2022 Gallery Award

Reading Level: 2.8

Published by Aladdin

ISBN# 9781534451865 (HB)

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When I Pray for You

By Matthew Turner, Illustrated by Kimberley Barnes

When I Pray for You celebrates the dreams, hopes, and longings parents pray over their children, and shares with the little ones how much care and concern a loved one feels for them.

Nominated

2021-2022 Gallery Award

Reading Level: 0.0

Published by Waterbrook

ISBN# 9780525650584 (HB)

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