Eighty years ago this week, on successive days a few miles apart in eastern France, three rural Americans risked their lives to help save Europe from tyranny. One soon died of his wounds, and ...

The American Library Association (ALA) has selected James (Doubleday) by Percival Everett as the winner of the 2025 Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction ... I’m thrilled to honor these ...

A complete list of the 2025 award winners follows. John Newbery Medal for the most ... recipient of the 2021 Newbery Medal Honor, among other titles. Mildred L. Batchelder Award for an outstanding ...

Throughout the past century, the ALA has bestowed the honor on timeless ... like the Caldecott Medal, Coretta Scott King Award and Printz Award. This year’s Newbery Medal winner (along with ...

Newbery Honor awards are given to authors of other distinguished children's books that came out that year. Check out our list of recent Newbery-winning books, with the most recent winners listed first ...

He made a sculpture of Gen. Jimmy Doolittle, a Medal of Honor winner who spent 42 years in the Army and Air Force. Someone at Mutual of Omaha — where Lajba had worked in the mailroom — saw the ...

Three of the bridges in our community are named for Medal of Honor winners. The Buck Karnes Bridge James Ernest “Buck” Karnes was a Medal of Honor winner in World War I. He is one of only two so ...

received the Presidential Medal of Freedom in recognition of her decades of public service. The award, which was bestowed by President Biden, is the highest honor given to civilians in the United ...

Rogers, is the Caldecott Medal winner. The book was published by Arthur A. Levine, an imprint of Levine Querido. Caldecott Honor Books Four Caldecott Honor Books also were named: "Home in a Lunchbox," ...

But Conner was luckier than the other Medal of Honor winner in the Colmar Pocket. On Jan. 25, 1945, PFC Jose F. Valdez of northwest New Mexico, who had already killed three heavily armed Germans in a ...