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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 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…

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 Poetry finalist:   May Day by Gretchen Marquette Published by: Graywolf Press Category Sponsor: Wellington Management, Inc. May Day is both a distress call and a celebration…

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 Novel & Short Story finalist: The Annie Year by Stephanie Wilbur Ash Published by:Unnamed Press Category Sponsor: Fitzgerald in Saint Paul Tandy Caide is a big-boned pragmatist…

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 Minnesota Nonfiction finalist: The Big Marsh: The Story of a Lost Landscape by Cheri Register Published by: Minnesota Historical Society Press Category Sponsor: Saint Mary’s University…

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: Little Cat’s Luck by Marion Dane Bauer, illustrated by Jennifer A. Bell Published by: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers Category…