2015 Award Winners

2013 Award Winners

Literacy & Social Responsibility Book Award 2014

The second annual Social Justice Literature Awards in children’s bookswere announced at ILA in New Orleans, Louisiana at the annual meeting of the Literacy & Social Responsibility Special Interest Group. The winning books were noted for fostering respect and understanding of others and for inviting reflection and analysis by the reader.

There are three 2014 winners. The committee was co-chaired by Carolyn Cook, Kenny Fasching-Varner, and Aimee Rogers.

Click on the links within each section below for further information.

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The fiction novel is The Garden of My Imann by Farhana Zia and published by Peachtree Publishers.

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The picture book is Razia’s Ray of Hope: One Girl’s Dream of an Education written by Elizabeth Suneby, illustrated by Suana Verelst, and published by Kids Can Press.

Elizabeth Suneby

Suana Verelst

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The nonfiction book is Looks like Daylight: Voices of Indigenous Kids by Deborah Ellis and published by Groundwood Books.

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