2022 Freeman Book Award Winners

Children’s Literature

Eighteen Vats of Water

Ji-Li Jiang, Illustrated by Nadia Hsieh (Creston Books)

Alone Like Me

Rebecca Evans (Anne Schwartz Books)

When the Sakura Bloom

Narisa Togo (Berbay Publishing)

Nana, Nenek & Nina

Liza Ferneyhough, Illustrated by Liza Ferneyhough (Dial Books)

Operation Pangolin: Saving the World’s Only Scaled Mammal

Suzi Eszterhas, Photographs by Suzi Eszterhas (Millbrook Press)

Warrior Princess: The Story of Khutulun

Sally Deng (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)

Young Adult / Middle School Literature

Berani

Michelle Kadarusman (Pajama Press)

Morning Sun in Wuhan

Ying Chang Compestine (Clarion Books)

The Not-So-Uniform Life of Holly-Mei

Christina Matula (Inkyard Press)

Dragonfly Eyes

Cao Wenxuan, Translated by Helen Wang (Candlewick Press)

Young Adult / High School Literature

The Color of the Sky Is the Shape of the Heart

Chesil, Translated by Takami Nieda (Soho Teen)

K-Pop Revolution

Stephan Lee (Point)

The Red Palace

June Hur (Feiwel & Friends)

Strike the Zither

Joan He (Roaring Brook Press)

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