2024 Award Winners

The Spirit Bares Its Teeth

Stonewall Honor Book / YALSA Best Fiction for Young Adults

Peachtree Teen • HC: 9781682636114
Reading Group Guide

★ Five Starred Reviews! ★
Chicago Public Library ‘Best of the Best’ Book
Kirkus Reviews Best Young Adult Book of the Year
BCCB Blue Ribbon Book
Booklist Editors’ Choice
Shelf Awareness Best Book of the Year
School Library Journal Best Book of the Year

ALA Notable Children’s Book

In the Night Garden

Neal Porter Books
HC: 9780823449866

★  “In tandem, the text and art endow nighttime with a sense of whimsy and wonder.” —Booklist

★ “Fully captures the imagination.” —BookPage

★ “Spellbinding. . . .” —The Horn Book

★ “[The] perfect amalga mation of soothing text and image.”—Kirkus Reviews

RISE: A Feminist Book Project

Stories of the Islands


HC: 9780823449781

Evanston Public Library Great Books for Kids pick

“A beautiful collection of folktales that succeeds in depicting strengthened female agency while promoting a healthy consideration for others .”
School Library Journal

Best Comics and Graphic Novels for Children

The Lost Mitten

I Like to Read® Comics 
HC: 9780823453153
PB: 9780823459100

I’m Ogre It

I Like to Read® Comics 
HC: 9780823450183
PB: 9780823455997

Let's Go!

I Like to Read® Comics
HC: 9780823446520
PB: 9780823457052

Last Exit to Feral

HC: 978082344866
PB: 9780823456017

Welcome to Feral

HC: 9780823448654
PB: 9780823454907

Santiago!

Margaret Ferguson Books
HC: 9780823450367
PB: 9780823454891

Black Caucus Best Books

A Flag for Juneteenth

Neal Porter Books
HC: 9780823452248
Educators Guide Available

★  “Filled with a spirit of jubilation and freedom. . . .  her textile art perfectly complements her evocative prose. . . .”
BookPage

The Story of the Saxophone

HC: 9780823437023
Educators Guide Available

★ School Library Journal
★ Shelf Awareness
★ Publishers Weekly

YALSA Best Fiction for Young Adults / Black Caucus Best Books

For Lamb

HC: 9780823450152
Reading Group Guide Available

“An essential read for anybody wanting to understand the Black experience and the love and pain that travels through the generations.”—The New York Times

★ Four Starred Reviews! ★
New York Public Library Best Book of the Year
Horn Book Fanfare Book
Booklist Editors’ Choice
CSMCL Best Multicultural Children’s Book of the Year
BookPage Best Young Adult Book of the Year

YALSA Quick Picks for Reluctant Readers / 2024 Rainbow Book List

Aces Wild

Peachtree Teen
HC: 9781682634660
Reading Group Guide

Named to the TAYSHAS Reading List

YALSA Best Fiction for Young Adults

The Fall of Whit Rivera


HC: 9780823452361

New York Public Library Best Book of the Year
Kirkus Reviews Best Young Adult Book of the Year

Stock up on all our recent winners

I Did It!

PB: 9780823446513
Theodor Seuss Geisel Award Winner
Kirkus Reviews Best Book of the Year

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A Seed Grows

PB: 9780823448920
Theodor Seuss Geisel Honor Book
Sibert Honor Book

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Owl and Penguin

PB: 9780823451500
Theodor Seuss Geisel Honor Book
ALA Notable Children’s Book
Named to the Little Maverick Graphic Novel Reading List

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Dreamers
Soñadores

Also from Yuyi Morales, creator of Bright Star
HC: 9780823441259 / Spanish HC: 9780823442584
2019 Pura Belpré Illustrator Award

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Watercress

Caldecott Medal Winner / Newbery Honor Book / APALA Award Winner

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The Passover guest

Sydney Taylor Award Winner

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Finding Langston

HC: 9780823439607
PB: 9780823445820
2019 Coretta Scott King
Author Honor Book
2019 Scott O’Dell Award
for Historical Fiction

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I Talk Like a River

HC: 9780823445592
2022 Odyssey Honor Audiobook
2021 Schneider Family Book Award
2021 Cook Prize Honor Book
2021 ALA Notable Children’s Book
Charlotte Zolotow Honor Book

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Honeybee

HC: 9780823442850
2021 Robert F. Sibert Award
2021 ALA Notable Children’s Book
2021 AAAS/Subaru SB&F Prize for
Excellence in Science Books finalist
2021 NCTE Orbis Pictus Honor Book

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Before She was Harriet

HC: 9780823420476
PB: 9780823444298
2019 Christopher Award
Picture Book
2018 Coretta Scott King
Illustrator Honor Book
2018 Charlotte Zolotow Award
Highly Commended Title

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Hey, Water!

HC: 9780823447350
2020 Robert F. Sibert
Honor Award

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A New Green Day

Also by Antoinette Portis
HC: 9780823444885

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Your Place in the Universe

Also from Jason Chin,
illustrator of Watercress
HC: 9780823446230
2021 Cook Prize

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Nine Months

Also illustrated
by Jason Chin
HC: 9780823441617

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What Girls Are Made Of

PB: 9780823445677
National Book Award Finalist

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Out of Darkness

PB: 9780823445035
Printz Honor Book

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The Story of Owen

PB: 9780823445028
Morris Award Finalist

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