The Nēnē Award is Hawaii's children's choice book award.

Each year, Hawaii's elementary and middle school children vote for their favorite fiction book and present the author with the prized Nēnē Award.
Children in public and private schools and in public libraries read and vote. The award is sponsored by the Hawaii Library Association's Children and Youth Section, the Hawaii Association of School Librarians, the Hawaii State Public Library System, and the Department of Education.

The award began in 1959 when third graders at the University Elementary Lab School decided to create a book award. The Nēnē Goose, Hawai‘i's State Bird, was chosen for the award's motif. That year, the children selected The Blue Mountain by Beth Lewis as the first winner of the fledgling Nēnē Award.
By 1963, the idea had spread to other schools throughout Hawai'i and the first statewide Nēnē Award was presented in 1964 to author Scott O'Dell for Island of the Blue Dolphins.

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Hudson Williams

(born February 13, 2001) is an Canadian actor, director and producer from Kamloops, British Columbia. He is most known for his breakout role as Shane Hollander in the Crave original television series, Heated Rivalry (based of the book by Rachel Reid).

This list is of his recommendations.

Laika

(/ˈlaɪkə/ LY-kə; Russian: Лáйка, IPA: [ˈlajkə]; c. 1954 – 3 November 1957) was a Soviet space dog who was one of the first animals in space and the first to orbit the Earth. A stray mongrel from the streets of Moscow, she flew aboard the Sputnik 2 spacecraft, launched into low orbit on 3 November 1957. As the technology to re-enter the atmosphere had not yet been developed, Laika's survival was never expected. She died by into the flight, on the craft's fourth orbit.

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