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News about 96 Miles:

  • WINNER of the MORNING CALM MEDAL (Korea Int’l Librarians Association) 2024
  • WINNER of the William Allen White Children’s Book Award 2023
  • WINNER of the Truman Readers Award 2023
  • Florida Sunshine State Young Readers Award nominee 2023-2024
  • WINNER of the Nevada Young Reader Award, 2022!
  • WINNER of the Mississippi Magnolia Book Award, 2022!
  • Minnesota Maud Hart Lovelace Award nominee 2022-2023
  • Connecticut Nutmeg Book Award nominee 2022-2023
  • Missouri Truman Readers Award nominee 2022-2023
  • Georgia Children’s Book Award finalist 2023
  • Louisiana Young Reader Award nominee 2022-2023
  • Indiana Young Hoosier Book Award nominee 2022-2023
  • William Allen White Book Award Selection 2022-2023
  • South Dakota Teen Choice Book Award nominee 2021-2022
  • Mississippi Magnolia Book Award nominee 2022
  • Idaho Battle of the Books Selection 2021-2022
  • Nevada Young Readers’ Award nominee 2022
  • Maine Student Book Award nominee 2021-2022
  • Pennsylvania Young Readers Choice Award nomination for 2021-2022
  • Kansas National Education Association Recommended Book
  • Oklahoma Library Association’s Sequoyah Masterlist 2022
  • South Carolina Junior Book Award list 2021-2022
  • Finalist for the Reading the West Book Award
  • Junior Tome Society “It List” 2021-2022
  • WINNER of the AML award for best middle grade novel
  • WINNER of the Whitney Award for best debut novel 
  • A Junior Library Guild Gold Standard Selection

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