This is such exciting news from our colleagues at Minitex! It’s wonderful that they make so many books available to libraries from across the state. And having even more books available for libraries to share with their communities is just great.

Check out this press release from Minitex:

You can now access many of the 2023 Maud Hart Lovelace (MHL) and Star of the North (SOTN) nominees via Ebooks Minnesota. The current year’s winners and next year’s nominees are announced by the MYRA executive board in April.  Below is a listing of the nominees available in Ebooks Minnesota.

2023 MHL Division I Nominees:
The best of Iggy by Annie Barrows and Sam Ricks
Coop knows the scoop by Taryn Souders
The lion of Mars by Jennifer L. Holm
The littlest voyageur by Cheryl Pilgrim and Margi Preus
Measuring up by Margaret Gurevich and Brooke Hagel
Ways to make sunshine by Nina Mata and Renee Watson
City spies by James Ponti
Count me in by Varsha Bajaj
Song for a whale by Lynne Kelly

2023 MHL Division II Nominees
96 Miles by J.L. Esplin
All the impossible things by Lindsay Lackey
White bird: a Wonder story by R.J. Palacio
City spies by James Ponti
Count me in by Varsha Bajaj
Song for a whale by Lynne Kelly

2023 SOTN Nominees
The box turtle by Vanessa Roeder
The electric slide and Kai by Kelly J. Baptist
Jayden’s impossible garden by Ken Daley and Melina Mangal
Laxmi’s mooch by Nabi H. Ali and Shelly Anand
The paper kingdom by Pascal Campoin and Helena Ku Rhee