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Newbery Medal | Hello, Universe

What’s that? A Filipina-American author just won the Newbery Medal for Best Children’s Book? Yes! Congrats to Erin Entrada Kelly (@erinkellytweets on Twitter) and her book Hello, Universe!  🎉 🎉 🎉

In one day, four lives
weave together in unexpected ways. Virgil Salinas is shy and kindhearted
and feels out of place in his loud and boisterous family. Valencia
Somerset, who is deaf, is smart, brave, and secretly lonely, and loves
everything about nature. Kaori Tanaka is a self-proclaimed psychic,
whose little sister Gen is always following her around. And Chet Bullens
wishes the weird kids would just act normal so that he can concentrate
on basketball. They aren’t friends – at least not until Chet pulls a
prank that traps Virgil and his pet guinea pig at the bottom of a well.
This disaster leads Kaori, Gen, and Valencia on an epic quest to find
the missing Virgil. Through luck, smarts, bravery, and a little help
from the universe, a rescue is performed, a bully is put in his place,
and friendship blooms.