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Awards List

2023

What Happened to Rachel Riley?
(*)
Claire Swinarski

Dear Mothman
(*)
Robin Gow

You Are Here: Connecting Flights
(*)
Ellen Oh

Big Tree
(*)
Brian Selznick

Conjure Island
(*)
Eden Royce

Hope in the Valley
(*)
Mitali Perkins

Eagle Drums
(*)
Nasugraq Rainey Hopson

The Puppets of Spelhorst
(*)
Kate DiCamillo

Remember Us
(*)
Jacqueline Woodson

2022

A Comb of Wishes
(*)
Lisa Stringfellow

Different Kinds of Fruit
(*)
Kyle Lukoff

A Duet for Home
(*)
Karina Yan Glaser

The Last Mapmaker
(*)
Christina Soontornvat

Hummingbird
(*)
Natalie Lloyd

Invisible
(*)
Christina Diaz Gonzalez

Tumble
(*)
Celia C. Perez

Lolo's Light
(*)
Liz Garton Scanlon

A Seed in the Sun
(*)
Aida Salazar

Golden Girl
(*)
Reem Faruqi

2021

The Last Cuentista
(#1)
Donna Barba Higuera

Too Small Tola
(#3)
Atinuke

Legacy
(#4)
Nikki Grimes

The Sea in Winter
(#9)
Christine Day

Red, White, and Whole
(#6)
Rajani LaRocca

Amber and Clay
(#5)
Laura Amy Schlitz

Leonard (My Life as a Cat)
(#7)
Carlie Sorosiak

Ahmed Aziz's Epic Year
(#2)
Nina Hamza

Kiki Kallira Breaks a Kingdom
(#8)
Sangu Mandanna

Black Boy Joy
(#10)
Kwame Mbalia

2020

Everything Sad Is Untrue
(#1)
Daniel Nayeri

King and the Dragonflies
(#4)
Kacen Callender

The Only Black Girls in Town
(#6)
Brandy Colbert

Echo Mountain
(#8)
Lauren Wolk

Our Friend Hedgehog
(#5)
Lauren Castillo

We Dream of Space
(#9)
Erin Entrada Kelly

Fighting Words
(#3)
Kimberly Brubaker Bradley

Land of the Cranes
(#7)
Aida Salazar

Premeditated Myrtle
(#10)
Elizabeth C. Bunce

2019

Lalani of the Distant Sea
(#1)
Erin Entrada Kelly

Eventown
(#10)
Corey Ann Haydu

Pay Attention, Carter Jones
(#4)
Gary D. Schmidt

The Mighty Heart of Sunny St. James
(#8)
Ashley Herring Blake

The Line Tender
(#7)
Kate Allen

All the Greys on Greene Street
(#9)
Laura Tucker

Beverly, Right Here
(#5)
Kate DiCamillo

Some Places More Than Others
(#6)
Renee Watson

Look Both Ways
(#2)
Jason Reynolds

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