Lerner Wins Printz Honor and CSK Illustrator Honor!

Lerner Publishing Group has received two prestigious 2016 American Library Association (ALA) Youth Media Awards!

This morning the ALA announced at the Midwinter Meeting in Boston that Out of Darkness by Ashley Hope Pérez is a recipient of the Michael L. Printz Honor and The Book Itch: Freedom, Truth & Harlem’s Greatest Bookstore, written by Vaunda Micheaux Nelson and illustrated by R. Gregory Christie, is a recipient of the Coretta Scott King Illustrator Honor.