This post is part two of our four-part series on this year’s finalists for the annual Children’s History Book Prize. Join us here on our History Detectives blog over the next few weeks as we interview the authors to learn more about their amazing books. Read all four finalists, then help us choose the prizewinner…

Are you looking for a great book to share with a middle reader in your life? (Psst! You will love these, too!) Dig into the four finalists for this year’s New-York Historical Society Children’s History Book Prize and visit us here on the blog to meet each of the authors and hear more about their…

What great finalists we’ve had this year for our annual Children’s History Book Prize! If you’ve been reading along, you’ve surely enjoyed Lucky Broken Girl by Ruth Behar, Undefeated by Steve Sheinkin, This is Just a Test by Madelyn Rosenberg and Wendy Wan-Long Shang, and Fred Korematsu Speaks Up by Laura Atkins and Stan Yogi….

In 2016 Firoozeh Dumas became the first-ever winner of our New Americans Book Prize for her wonderful novel, It Ain’t So Awful, Falafel. We were lucky enough to meet her when she accepted the award, and this year we were thrilled to welcome her back for our April 29, 2018, meeting of the Reading into…

This post is part IIII of our four-part series on this year’s finalists for our annual Children’s History Book Prize. Join us here on our History Detectives blog over the next few weeks as we meet the authors and learn more about their amazing books. Read all four finalists, then help us choose the prizewinner…

This post is part III of our four-part series on this year’s finalists for our annual Children’s History Book Prize. Join us here on our History Detectives blog over the next few weeks as we meet the authors and learn more about their amazing books. Read all four finalists, then help us choose the prizewinner…

This post is part II of our four-part series on this year’s finalists for our annual Children’s History Book Prize. Join us here on our History Detectives blog over the next few weeks as we meet the authors and learn more about their amazing books. Read all four finalists, then help us choose the prizewinner…

This post is part 1 of our 4-part series on this year’s finalists for the annual Children’s History Book Prize. Join us here on our History Detectives blog over the next few weeks as we interview the authors to learn more about their amazing books. We invite you to read all four finalists then help…

Spring is in the air, which means it’s that time of year again—get ready to dive into reading the finalists for our annual Children’s History Book Prize and help us select a winner! Visit us here on our History Detectives blog over the next four weeks to learn about each of our finalists through interviews…