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Each day we highlight one of the 36 finalists leading up to the April 8 announcement of the Minnesota Book Awards, presented by Education Minnesota. Today we feature 2017 Middle Grade Literature finalist: Sachiko: A Nagasaki Bomb Survivor’s Story by Caren Stelson Published by: Carolrhoda Books/Lerner Publishing Category Sponsor: Education Minnesota This striking work of…

Each day we highlight one of the 36 finalists leading up to the April 8 announcement of the Minnesota Book Awards, presented by Education Minnesota. Today we feature 2017 Memoir & Creative Nonfiction finalist: The Song Poet: A Memoir of My Father by Kao Kalia Yang Published by: Metropolitan Books/Henry Holt & Company Category Sponsor:…

Each day we highlight one of the 36 finalists leading up to the April 8 announcement of the Minnesota Book Awards, presented by Education Minnesota. Today we feature 2017 Genre Fiction finalist: The Heavens May Fall by Allen Eskens Published by: Seventh Street Books Category Sponsor: Macalester College Detective Max Rupert and attorney Boady Sanden’s…

Each day we highlight one of the 36 finalists leading up to the April 8 announcement of the Minnesota Book Awards, presented by Education Minnesota. Today we feature 2017 General Nonfiction finalist: Designing Our Way to a Better World by Thomas Fisher Published by: University of Minnesota Press Category Sponsor: College of Saint Benedict Literary…

Each day we highlight one of the 36 finalists leading up to the April 8 announcement of the Minnesota Book Awards, presented by Education Minnesota. Today we feature 2017 Children’s Literature finalist: This Is NOT a Cat! by David LaRochelle, illustrated by Mike Wohnoutka Published by: Sterling Children’s Books/Sterling Publishing Category Sponsor: Books For Africa…

Each day we highlight one of the 36 finalists leading up to the April 8 announcement of the Minnesota Book Awards, presented by Education Minnesota. Today we feature 2017 Young Adult Literature finalist: Assassin’s Heart by Sarah Ahiers Published by: HarperTeen/HarperCollins Publishers Category Sponsor: Brainfuse Seventeen-year-old Lea Saldana is a trained assassin. She was born…