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Maud Hart Lovelace
Maud Hart Lovelace was a Minnesota author, born and raised in Mankato, at the turn of the twentieth century. She loved reading and started writing stories when she was young. Through her Betsy/Tacy series, Ms. Lovelace has left a lasting history of Minnesota and thus has been honored with this award. The Maud Hart Lovelace Book Award is a Minnesota children’s choice book award. Its purpose is to encourage recreational reading among school age children. The nominated titles each year are fiction works. Students in grades 3-8 are encouraged to read at least three of the nominated works. Voting for their favorite book takes place in the spring by students who have read and passed a short quiz for three or more of these books. All libraries in Minnesota are encouraged to participate. Each year’s winner is announced close to Maud Hart Lovelace's birthday in April!
                          Vote for your favorite Maud Hart Lovelace nominee spring 2023!
 

               2021-2022 Maud Hart Lovelace Book Award Nominees

  • The Best Of Iggy by Annie Barrows

  • Coop knows the Scoop by Taryn Souders                          
  • The Lion of Mars by Jennifer L. Holm                
  • The Littlest Voyager by Margi Preus
  • Measuring Up by Lily Lamotte
  • Ways to Make Sunshine by Renée Watson
  • Brave Like That by Lindsey Stoddard
  • City Spies by James Ponti
  • Count Me In by Varsha Bajaj
  • Song for a Whale by Lynne Kelly
  • 96 Miles by J.L. Esplin                                      
  • All the Impossible Ways by Lindsay Lackey
  • Becoming Muhammad Ali by James Pattterson and Kwame Alexander
  • The Missing Piece of Charlie O'Reilly by Rebecca K. S. Ansari
  • White Bird: a Wonder Story by R. J. Palacio
The books on the nominee list are selected by the Maud Hart Lovelace Selection Committee. Criteria for selection include:
  •            books must be available in paperback as of January 1st of the selection year
  •            author must live in North American
  •            original copyright must be within three years of the selection year
  •            must be work of fiction and not classified as a picture book











 







 

 

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