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href="https://libguides.ala.org/recommended-reading/morris" style="" >Morris Award </a></li><li class=""><a title="oldest given children's award in the US, most distinguished contribution to American literature for children" href="https://libguides.ala.org/recommended-reading/newbery-medal" style="" >Newbery Medal </a></li><li class=""><a title="literary excellence in young adult literature" href="https://libguides.ala.org/recommended-reading/printz" style="" >Printz Award </a></li><li class="active"><a title="disability experience for child and adolescent audiences" href="https://libguides.ala.org/recommended-reading/schneider" style="" >Schneider Award </a></li><li class=""><a title="informational book published in the United States in English" href="https://libguides.ala.org/recommended-reading/sibert" style="" >Sibert Award </a></li><li class=""><a title="new African American author/illustrator of children's books" href="https://libguides.ala.org/recommended-reading/steptoe" 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Boyd Literary Award </a></li><li class=""><a title="best nonfiction book published for young adults" href="https://libguides.ala.org/recommended-reading/ya-nonfiction" style="" >Young Adult Nonfiction Award </a></li></ul></li><li class=""><a title="" class="" href="https://libguides.ala.org/recommended-reading/children" ><span>For Children</span></a></li><li class=""><a title="" class="" href="https://libguides.ala.org/recommended-reading/YA-teens" ><span>Young Adults/Teens</span></a></li><li class=""><a title="" class="" href="https://libguides.ala.org/recommended-reading/adults" ><span>Adults</span></a></li><li class=""><a title="" class="" href="https://libguides.ala.org/recommended-reading/leveled-reading" ><span>Leveled Reading</span></a></li><li class=""><a title="" class="" href="https://libguides.ala.org/recommended-reading/professional-resources" ><span>Librarian/Professional Resources</span></a></li><li class=""><a title="" class="" href="https://libguides.ala.org/c.php?g=488238&p=3530814" ><span>Celebrating Diversity</span></a></li> </ul> </div> </div> <div id="s-lg-guide-tabs-title-bar" class="container s-lib-side-borders"></div>  <div id="s-lg-guide-main" class="container s-lib-main s-lib-side-borders" tabindex="-1"> <div class="row s-lg-row"><div id="s-lg-col-126" class="col-md-12"><div class="s-lg-col-boxes s-lg-box-special"><div id="s-lg-box-wrapper-12208499" class="s-lg-box-wrapper-12208499"><div id="s-lg-box-10358297-container" class="s-lib-box-container"> <div id="s-lg-box-10358297" class="s-lib-box s-lib-box-std s-lib-floating-box"> <div id="s-lg-box-collapse-10358297" > <div class="s-lib-box-content s-lib-floating-box-content"> <div id="s-lg-content-21338553" class=" clearfix"> <p><a href="http://www.ala.org/awardsgrants/schneider-family-book-award" target="_blank"><img alt="image of the schneider award seal" src="http://www.ala.org/awardsgrants/sites/ala.org.awardsgrants/files/styles/award_thumbnail/public/ACF7A61_3.jpg?itok=a1ZY2575" style="width: 100px; height: 98px; float: left;" /></a>The Schneider Family Book Awards honor an author or illustrator for a book that embodies an artistic expression of the disability experience for child and adolescent audiences.<br /> Click here for the Schneider Family Book <a href="http://www.ala.org/aboutala/sites/ala.org.aboutala/files/content/schneiderawardmanual-2-2.pdf" target="_blank" title="Scheneider Award Manual">Award Manual</a> (PDF)<br /> <a href="http://www.ala.org/awardsgrants/sites/ala.org.awardsgrants/files/content/awardsrecords/schneideraward/2009_schneider_bio_children.pdf" target="_self" title="Bibliography for the Schneider award">Bibliography</a> of Children's Books about the Disability Experience (pdf)</p> </div><div class=""><ul id="s-lg-link-list-23960109" class="s-lg-link-list s-lg-link-list-2"><li class=""><div id="s-lg-content-21338589" class=""><span><a href="http://www.ala.org/awardsgrants/awards/1/all_years" target="_blank" onclick="return springSpace.springTrack.trackLink({link: this,_st_type_id: '2',_st_content_id: '21338589',_st_inc_return: this});">Schneider Winner list</a></span><div id="s-lg-link-desc-21338589" class="s-lg-link-desc">The list of all winners from 2004 to present. The Schneider Family Book Award honors an author or illustrator for a book that embodies an artistic expression of the disability experience for child and adolescent audiences.</div></div></li></ul></div> </div> </div> </div> </div></div></div></div></div><div class="row s-lg-row"><div id="s-lg-col-1" class="col-md-4"><div class="s-lg-col-boxes"><div id="s-lg-box-wrapper-21902005" class="s-lg-box-wrapper-21902005"><div id="s-lg-box-18651998-container" class="s-lib-box-container"> <div id="s-lg-box-18651998" class="s-lib-box s-lib-box-std"> <h2 class="s-lib-box-title">Schneider Family Book Award - Best Young Children's Book</h2><div id="s-lg-box-collapse-18651998" > <div class="s-lib-box-content"> <div class=""><ul id="s-lg-link-list-44118325" class="s-lg-link-list s-lg-link-list-5"><li class=""><div id="s-lg-content-41135317" class="s-lg-book clearfix"><div class="s-lg-book-props"><a href="http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/981994585" target="_blank" onclick="return springSpace.springTrack.trackLink({link: this,_st_type_id: '3',_st_content_id: '41135317',_st_inc_return: this});"><span id="s-lg-book-cover-41135317" class="s-lg-book-cover"><img loading="lazy" alt="" src="//syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9780545927611/LC.GIF&client=springshare" class="pull-left s-lg-book-cover-img-2" /></span><span id="s-lg-book-title-41135317" class="s-lg-book-title">Silent Days, Silent Dreams</span><span id="s-lg-book-by-41135317" class="s-lg-book-by"> by </span><span id="s-lg-book-author-41135317" class="s-lg-book-author">Allen Say (Illustrator)</span></a> <i class="fa fa-lg fa-info-circle pad-left-sm" tabindex="0" role="button" data-toggle="popover" data-trigger="focus" data-content="Caldecott Medal winner Allen Say brings his lavish illustrations and hybrid narrative and artistic styles to the story of artist James Castle. James Castle was born two months premature on September 25, 1899, on a farm in Garden Valley, Idaho. He was deaf, mute, autistic, and probably dyslexic. He didn't walk until he was four; he would never learn to speak, write, read, or use sign language. Yet, today Castle's artwork hangs in major museums throughout the world. The Philadelphia Museum of Art opened "James Castle: A Retrospective" in 2008. The 2013 Venice Biennale included eleven works by Castle in the feature exhibition "The Encyclopedic Palace." And his reputation continues to grow. Caldecott Medal winner Allen Say, author of the acclaimed memoir Drawing from Memory, takes readers through an imagined look at Castle's childhood, allows them to experience his emergence as an artist despite the overwhelming difficulties he faced, and ultimately reveals the triumphs that he would go on to achieve."></i><span class="sr-only">Caldecott Medal winner Allen Say brings his lavish illustrations and hybrid narrative and artistic styles to the story of artist James Castle. James Castle was born two months premature on September 25, 1899, on a farm in Garden Valley, Idaho. He was deaf, mute, autistic, and probably dyslexic. He didn't walk until he was four; he would never learn to speak, write, read, or use sign language. Yet, today Castle's artwork hangs in major museums throughout the world. The Philadelphia Museum of Art opened "James Castle: A Retrospective" in 2008. The 2013 Venice Biennale included eleven works by Castle in the feature exhibition "The Encyclopedic Palace." And his reputation continues to grow. Caldecott Medal winner Allen Say, author of the acclaimed memoir Drawing from Memory, takes readers through an imagined look at Castle's childhood, allows them to experience his emergence as an artist despite the overwhelming difficulties he faced, and ultimately reveals the triumphs that he would go on to achieve.</span> <script> jQuery(function () { jQuery('[data-toggle="popover"]').popover() }) </script>  <div class="s-lg-book-prop-isbn">ISBN: 9780545927611</div><div class="s-lg-book-prop-pubdate">Publication Date: 2017-10-31</div></div></div></li></ul></div> </div> </div> </div> </div></div></div></div><div id="s-lg-col-2" class="col-md-4"><div class="s-lg-col-boxes"><div id="s-lg-box-wrapper-21902010" class="s-lg-box-wrapper-21902010"><div id="s-lg-box-18652003-container" class="s-lib-box-container"> <div id="s-lg-box-18652003" class="s-lib-box s-lib-box-std"> <h2 class="s-lib-box-title">2017 Schneider Family Book Award - Best Middle Grades Book</h2><div id="s-lg-box-collapse-18652003" > <div class="s-lib-box-content"> <div class=""><ul id="s-lg-link-list-44118356" class="s-lg-link-list s-lg-link-list-5"><li class=""><div id="s-lg-content-41135349" class="s-lg-book clearfix"><div class="s-lg-book-props"><a href="http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/958479658" target="_blank" onclick="return springSpace.springTrack.trackLink({link: this,_st_type_id: '3',_st_content_id: '41135349',_st_inc_return: this});"><span id="s-lg-book-cover-41135349" class="s-lg-book-cover"><img loading="lazy" alt="" src="//syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781772780338/LC.GIF&client=springshare" class="pull-left s-lg-book-cover-img-2" /></span><span id="s-lg-book-title-41135349" class="s-lg-book-title">Macy Mcmillan and the Rainbow Goddess</span><span id="s-lg-book-by-41135349" class="s-lg-book-by"> by </span><span id="s-lg-book-author-41135349" class="s-lg-book-author">Shari Green</span></a> <i class="fa fa-lg fa-info-circle pad-left-sm" tabindex="0" role="button" data-toggle="popover" data-trigger="focus" data-content="Sixth grade is coming to an end, and so is life as Macy McMillan knows it. Already a "For Sale" sign mars the front lawn of her beloved house. Soon her mother will upend their perfect little family, adding a stepfather and six-year-old twin stepsisters. To add insult to injury, what is Macy's final sixth grade assignment? A genealogy project. Well, she'll put it off - just like those wedding centerpieces she's supposed to be making.Just when Macy's mother ought to be understanding, she sends Macy next door to help eighty-six-year-old Iris Gillan, who is also getting ready to move'in her case into an assisted living facility. Iris can't pack a single box on her own and, worse, she doesn't know sign language. How is Macy supposed to understand her? But Iris has stories to tell, and she isn't going to let Macy's deafness stop her. Soon, through notes and books and cookies, a bond grows between them. And this friendship, odd and unexpected, may be just what Macy needs to face the changes in her life.Shari Green, author of Root Beer Candy and Other Miracles, writes this summer story with the lightest touch, spinning Macy out of her old life and into a new one full of warmth and promise for the future."></i><span class="sr-only">Sixth grade is coming to an end, and so is life as Macy McMillan knows it. Already a "For Sale" sign mars the front lawn of her beloved house. Soon her mother will upend their perfect little family, adding a stepfather and six-year-old twin stepsisters. To add insult to injury, what is Macy's final sixth grade assignment? A genealogy project. Well, she'll put it off - just like those wedding centerpieces she's supposed to be making.Just when Macy's mother ought to be understanding, she sends Macy next door to help eighty-six-year-old Iris Gillan, who is also getting ready to move'in her case into an assisted living facility. Iris can't pack a single box on her own and, worse, she doesn't know sign language. How is Macy supposed to understand her? But Iris has stories to tell, and she isn't going to let Macy's deafness stop her. Soon, through notes and books and cookies, a bond grows between them. And this friendship, odd and unexpected, may be just what Macy needs to face the changes in her life.Shari Green, author of Root Beer Candy and Other Miracles, writes this summer story with the lightest touch, spinning Macy out of her old life and into a new one full of warmth and promise for the future.</span> <script> jQuery(function () { jQuery('[data-toggle="popover"]').popover() }) </script>  <div class="s-lg-book-prop-isbn">ISBN: 9781772780338</div><div class="s-lg-book-prop-pubdate">Publication Date: 2017-05-15</div></div></div></li></ul></div> </div> </div> </div> </div></div></div></div><div id="s-lg-col-3" class="col-md-4"><div class="s-lg-col-boxes"><div id="s-lg-box-wrapper-21902012" class="s-lg-box-wrapper-21902012"><div id="s-lg-box-18652004-container" class="s-lib-box-container"> <div id="s-lg-box-18652004" class="s-lib-box s-lib-box-std"> <h2 class="s-lib-box-title">2017 Schneider Family Book Award - Best Teen Book</h2><div id="s-lg-box-collapse-18652004" > <div class="s-lib-box-content"> <div class=""><ul id="s-lg-link-list-44118409" class="s-lg-link-list s-lg-link-list-5"><li class=""><div id="s-lg-content-41135396" class="s-lg-book clearfix"><div class="s-lg-book-props"><a href="http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/991213722" target="_blank" onclick="return springSpace.springTrack.trackLink({link: this,_st_type_id: '3',_st_content_id: '41135396',_st_inc_return: this});"><span id="s-lg-book-cover-41135396" class="s-lg-book-cover"><img loading="lazy" alt="" src="//syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9780399551444/LC.GIF&client=springshare" class="pull-left s-lg-book-cover-img-2" /></span><span id="s-lg-book-title-41135396" class="s-lg-book-title">You're Welcome, Universe</span><span id="s-lg-book-by-41135396" class="s-lg-book-by"> by </span><span id="s-lg-book-author-41135396" class="s-lg-book-author">Whitney Gardner</span></a> <i class="fa fa-lg fa-info-circle pad-left-sm" tabindex="0" role="button" data-toggle="popover" data-trigger="focus" data-content="When Julia finds a slur about her best friend scrawled across the back of the Kingston School for the Deaf, she covers it up with a beautiful (albeit illegal) graffiti mural. Her supposed best friend snitches, the principal expels her, and her two mothers set Julia up with a one-way ticket to a "mainstream" school in the suburbs, where she's treated like an outcast as the only deaf student. The last thing she has left is her art, and not even Banksy himself could convince her to give that up. Out in the 'burbs, Julia paints anywhere she can, eager to claim some turf of her own. But Julia soon learns that she might not be the only vandal in town. Someone is adding to her tags, making them better, showing off--and showing Julia up in the process. She expected her art might get painted over by cops. But she never imagined getting dragged into a full-blown graffiti war. Told with wit and grit by debut author Whitney Gardner, who also provides gorgeous interior illustrations of Julia's graffiti tags, You're Welcome, Universe introduces audiences to a one-of-a-kind protagonist who is unabashedly herself no matter what life throws in her way."></i><span class="sr-only">When Julia finds a slur about her best friend scrawled across the back of the Kingston School for the Deaf, she covers it up with a beautiful (albeit illegal) graffiti mural. Her supposed best friend snitches, the principal expels her, and her two mothers set Julia up with a one-way ticket to a "mainstream" school in the suburbs, where she's treated like an outcast as the only deaf student. The last thing she has left is her art, and not even Banksy himself could convince her to give that up. Out in the 'burbs, Julia paints anywhere she can, eager to claim some turf of her own. But Julia soon learns that she might not be the only vandal in town. Someone is adding to her tags, making them better, showing off--and showing Julia up in the process. She expected her art might get painted over by cops. But she never imagined getting dragged into a full-blown graffiti war. Told with wit and grit by debut author Whitney Gardner, who also provides gorgeous interior illustrations of Julia's graffiti tags, You're Welcome, Universe introduces audiences to a one-of-a-kind protagonist who is unabashedly herself no matter what life throws in her way.</span> <script> jQuery(function () { jQuery('[data-toggle="popover"]').popover() }) </script>  <div class="s-lg-book-prop-isbn">ISBN: 9780399551444</div><div class="s-lg-book-prop-pubdate">Publication Date: 2018-03-06</div></div></div></li></ul></div> </div> </div> </div> </div></div></div></div></div><div class="row s-lg-row"><div id="s-lg-col-127" class="col-md-12"><div class="s-lg-col-boxes"></div></div></div> <ul id="s-lg-page-prevnext" class="pager s-lib-hide"><li class="previous"><a href="https://libguides.ala.org/recommended-reading/printz"><< <strong>Previous:</strong> Printz Award</a></li><li class="next"><a href="https://libguides.ala.org/recommended-reading/sibert"><strong>Next:</strong> Sibert Award >></a></li></ul></div>   <div id="s-lib-footer-public" class="s-lib-footer footer container s-lib-side-borders"> <div id="s-lg-guide-header-meta" class="pad-top-sm pad-left-med clearfix"> <ul id="s-lg-guide-header-attributes" class=""> <li id="s-lg-guide-header-updated" class="s-lg-h-separator"> <span class="s-lg-guide-label">Last Updated:</span> <span class="s-lg-text-greyout">Jun 29, 2022 4:20 PM</span> </li> <li id="s-lg-guide-header-url" class="s-lg-h-separator"> <span class="s-lg-guide-label">URL:</span> <span class="s-lg-text-greyout">https://libguides.ala.org/recommended-reading</span> </li> <li id="s-lg-guide-print-url"> <a href="javascript: window.print();"><i class="fa fa-print" aria-hidden="true" title="Print Page"></i> Print Page</a> </li> </ul> <div id="s-lib-footer-login-link" class="pull-right pad-right-med"> <a href="https://ala.libapps.com/libapps/login.php?site_id=8424&target64=L2xpYmd1aWRlcy9hZG1pbl9jLnBocD9nPTQ4ODIzOCZwPTMzNDY5MDc=">Login to LibApps</a> </div> </div> <div class="pad-bottom-sm clearfix"> <div id="s-lib-footer-support-link" class="pull-right pad-right-med"> </div> <div id="s-lg-guide-header-subjects" class="pad-top-sm pad-left-med pad-right-med pull-left"> <span class="s-lg-guide-label">Subjects: </span><span class="s-lg-small bold"><a href="https://libguides.ala.org/sb.php?subject_id=98946">Adult Library Services</a>, <a href="https://libguides.ala.org/sb.php?subject_id=98945">Children's Library Services</a>, <a href="https://libguides.ala.org/sb.php?subject_id=98940">Equity, Diversity & Inclusion</a>, <a href="https://libguides.ala.org/sb.php?subject_id=98943">Public Libraries</a>, <a href="https://libguides.ala.org/sb.php?subject_id=98944">School Libraries</a>, <a href="https://libguides.ala.org/sb.php?subject_id=98947">Teen and Young Adult Library Services</a></span> </div> <div id="s-lg-guide-header-tags" class="pad-top-sm pad-left-med"> </div> </div> </div>   <div id="s-lib-scroll-top"> <a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="jQuery('body').focus();" title="Back to Top" aria-label="Back to Top"> <span class="fa-stack fa-lg" aria-hidden="true"> <i class="fa fa-square-o fa-stack-2x"></i> <i class="fa fa-angle-double-up fa-stack-1x" style="position:relative; bottom:2px;"></i> </span> </a> </div>  <div id="s-lib-alert" title=""><div id="s-lib-alert-content"></div></div>   </body> </html>