OLPD Senior Lecturer Gary Eldon Peter‘s novel, The Complicated Calculus (and Cows) of Carl Paulsen (Fitzroy Books / Regal House), won the 2023 Whippoorwill Book Award. This award is given to the ten most distinguished young adult books published in the previous year that “portray the complexity of rural living by dispelling stereotypes and demonstrating diversity among rural people.”

Peter states, “This award is particularly meaningful to me given the subject matter and setting of the book, and also because it is judged by librarians and education scholars specializing in young adult literature.”

The Complicated Calculus (and Cows) of Carl Paulsen (Fitzroy Books / Regal House) has also been awarded the Minnesota Book Award for Young Adult Literature, Best Book of 2022 in the young adult fiction category by NPR, and the 2020 Acheven Book Prize for Young Adult Fiction.

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