28TH ANNUAL

CHILDREN’S LITERATURESPONSORED BY books for Africa

Red: A Crayon’s Story

by Michael Hall

MEMOIR & CREATIVE NONFICTION SPONSORED BY

Kevin and greta Warren

Water and What We Know: Following the

Roots of a Northern Life by Karen Babine

poetry SPONSORED BY

Wellington Management, Inc.

Beautiful Wall by Ray Gonzalez

young people’s literature SPONSORED BY the Creative

Writing Programs at Hamline University

See No Color

by Shannon Gibney

hognander minnesota history award

SPONSORED BY the hognander family foundation

Degrees of Freedom:

The Origins of Civil Rights in Minnesota,

1865-1912 by William D. Green

GENERAL NONFICTION SPONSORED BY the waterbury

group at morgan stanley

No House to Call My Home: Love, Family and

Other Transgressions  by Ryan Berg

MINNESOTA SPONSORED BY saint Mary’s

University of Minnesota

Minnesota Modern: Architecture and

Life at Midcentury by Larry Millett, photos

by Denes Saari and Maria Forrai Saari

GENRE FICTION SPONSORED BY Macalester college

The Grave Soul by Ellen Hart

NOVEL & SHORT STORY SPONSORED BY

Education Minnesota

There’s Something I Want You To Do

by Charles Baxter

The 28th Annual Minnesota Book Awards is a program of The Friends of the Saint Paul Public Library. The Friends supports readers and writers statewide, celebrating and moving beyond the book, into the community. The publication of outreach materials is supported by the Council of Regional Public Library System Administrators (CRPLSA), through Minnesota’s Arts and Cultural Heritage Fund. Learn more at thefriends.org or call 651-222-3242.

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