HUSH: a podcast from your library – Episode 13 – William Allen White awards

Thad Hartman and Lissa Staley introduce a new format for the Hush podcast — a roundtable discussion with our guests around an engaging and interesting topic — books nominated for the William Allen White Award.

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William Allen White awards

Our guest this episode is Jason Lamb, the library’s new Tween Librarian serving kids ages 9-12. He represented our library at the William Allen White awards ceremony this fall in Emporia, Kansas.

Books mentioned

Eleven by Patricia Reilly Giff
The Boy who Dared by Susan Campbell Bartoletti
Also known as Harper by Ann Haywood Leal
The boy who invented TV: the story of Philo Farnsworth by Kathleen Krull
Extra credit by Andrew Clements
All the broken pieces: a novel in verse by Ann E Burg
The Great Death by John E Smelcer
Years of dust: the story of the Dust Bowl by Albert Marrin
Read more about the current nominees for 3rd-5th grade and 6th-8th grade on the William Allen White award website.
Because of Winn-Dixie by Kate DiCamillo
Island of the Blue Dolphins by Scott O’Dell
Frindle by Andrew Clements
The Devil’s Donkey, Baseball Fever, and The Trouble with Tuck by Theodore Taylor
A Light in the Attic by Shel Silverstein
Swindle by Gordon Korman
Surviving the Applewhites by Stephanie S. Tolan
City of Ember by Jeanne DuPrau
Moon over Manifest by Clare Vanderpool

Your turn to talk

Continue the conversation about books that have been nominated for the William Allen White award. Why do you like them? What can you recommend? Talk to us here on the blog, or on the library’s Goodreads group at our William Allen White discussion.
: Thad