Byron Graves Wins The Oklahoma Library Association’s High School Sequoyah Book Award
With this award, Oklahoma honors the Native American leader Sequoyah for his unique achievement in creating the Cherokee syllabary. Sequoyah chose eighty-five symbols to represent all spoken sounds of the Cherokee language. In so doing, he created a way to preserve his people’s language and culture.
The 2025 Sequoyah Book Awards go to:
- Children’s: Dogtown by Katherine Applegate & Gennifer Choldenko
- Intermediate: Tie between The Lost Year by Katherine Marsh and Parachute Kids by Betty C. Tang
- High School: Rez Ball by Byron Graves
Congratulations, Byron!
Read more: https://www.oklibs.org/page/sequoyah
