Intermediate
Looking for a new book to read this summer? Check out these new award winning titles! Click on the award to see winning titles from previous years.
Recognizing fiction that has the potential to transform children’s lives.
2021 Honor Book
When Stars Are Scattered by Victoria Jamieson & Omar Mohamed
2021 Honor Book
All Thirteen: The Incredible Cave Rescue of the Thai Boys Soccer Team by Christina Soontornvat
2021 Medal Winner
When You Trap a Tiger by Tae Keller
Awarded annually by the Association for Library Service to Children, a division of the American Library Association, to the author of the most distinguished contribution to American literature for children.
2021 Honor Book
All Thirteen: The Incredible Cave Rescue of the Thai Boys' Soccer Team by Christina Soontornvat
2021 Honor Book
We Dream of Space by Erin Entrada Kelly and illustrated by Erin Entrada Kelly and Celia Krampien
Recognizing diverse authors whose works feature diverse main characters and address diversity in a meaningful way.
2021 Winner
When Stars Are Scattered by Victoria Jamieson & Omar Mohamed
2021 Honor Book
King and the Dragon by Kacen Callender
2020 Honorable Mention
Other Words for Home by Jasmine Warga
Recognizing outstanding works that portray cultures, histories, or contemporary issues in South Asia or dealing with South Asians living abroad.
2020 Award
The Bridge Home by Padma Venkatraman
2021 Children's Narrative Winner
Efrén Divided by Ernesto Cisneros
Presented annually to a Latino/Latina writer and illustrator whose work best portrays, affirms, and celebrates the Latino cultural experience in an outstanding work of literature for children and youth.
2021 Children's Narrative Honor Book
The Total Eclipse of Nestor Lopez by Adrianna Cuevas
2021 Children's Narrative Honor Book
Lupe Wong Won't Dance by Donna Barba Higuera
2021 Winner
Catherine's War by Julia Billet and Claire Fauvel
Awarded to a United States publisher for a children’s book considered to be the most outstanding of those books originating in a country other than the United States and in a language other than English and subsequently translated into English for publication in the United States
2021 Winner
Telephone Tales by Gianna Rodari
Given to outstanding African American authors and illustrators of books that demonstrate an appreciation of African American culture and universal human values.
2021 Author Winner
Before the Ever After by Jacqueline Woodson
2021 Author Honor
Lifting As We Climb: Black Women's Battle for the Ballot Box by Evette Dionne
2021 Author Honor
King and the Dragonflies by Kacen Callender
2021 Honor Book
Fighting Words by Kimberly Brubaker Bradley
2021 Honor Book
BOX: Henry Brown Mails Himself to Freedom by Carole Boston Weatherford and illustrated by Michele Wood
2021 Middle Grade Winner
Show Me a Sign by Ann Clare LeZotte
Honors an author or illustrator for a book that embodies an artistic expression of the disability experience for child and adolescent audiences.
2021 Middle Grade Honors
Get a Grip, Vivy Cohen! by Sarah Kapit
2021 Middle Grade Honors
When Stars are Scattered by Victoria Jamieson and Omar Mohamed
Awarded annually to the author(s) and illustrator(s) of the most distinguished informational book published in the United States in English.
2021 Honor Book
How We Got to the Moon: The People, Technology, and Daring Feats of Science Behind Humanity's Greatest Adventure by John Rocco
2021 Honor Book
All Thirteen: The Incredible Cave Rescue of the Thai Boys' Soccer Team by Christina Soontornvat
Honored for exceptional merit relating to the gay/lesbian/bisexual/transgender experience.
2021 Honor Book
Beetle and the Hollowbones by Aliza Layne
American Indian Youth Literature Award identifies and honors the very best writing and illustrations by Native Americans and Indigenous peoples of North America.
2020 Winner
Indian No More by Charlene Willing McManis and Traci Sorell
Honoring literature about Asian/Pacific Americans and their heritage based on literary and artistic merit.
2020-2021 Winner
When You Trap a Tiger by Tae Keller
2020-2021 Honor Book
Prairie Lotus by Linda Sue Park
Notable should be thought to include books of especially commendable quality, books that exhibit venturesome creativity, and books of fiction, information, poetry and pictures for all age levels (birth through age 14) that reflect and encourage children's interests in exemplary ways.
The Blackbird Girls by Anne Blankman
Black Brother, Black Brother by Jewell Parker Rhodes
Becoming Muhammad Ali by James Patterson and Kwame Alexander
Echo Mountain by Lauren Wolk
Catherine's War by Julia Billet and Claire Fauvel
Efrén Divided by Ernesto Cisneros
From the Desk of Zoe Washington by Janae Marks
King and the Dragonflies by Kacen Callender
Once Upon an Eid: Stories of Hope and Joy by 15 Muslim Voices Ed. by S.K. Ali and Aisha Saeed & illustrated by Sara Alfageeh
Letters from Cuba by Ruth Behar
Lupe Wong Won't Dance by Donna Barba Higuera
Mañanaland by Pam Muñoz Ryan
The Only Black Girls in Town by Brandy Colbert
Prairie Lotus by Linda Sue Park
Three Keys (A Front Desk Novel) by Kelly Yang
What Stars Are Made Of by Sarah Allen
Santiago's Road Home by Alexandra Diaz
Show Me a Sign by Ann Clare LeZotte
A Wish in the Dark by Christina Soontornvat
The Total Eclipse of Nestor Lopez by Adrianna Cuevas
We Dream of Space by Erin Entrada Kelly and illustrated by Erin Entrada Kelly and Celia Krampien
When Stars Are Scattered by Victoria Jamieson and Omar Mohamed
When You Trap a Tiger by Tae Keller
Wink by Rob Harrell
Your Place in the Universe by Jason Chin
Sharuko: El Argueólogo Peruano/ Peruvian Archaeologist Julio C. Tello by Monica Brown
The NCTE Award for Excellence in Children's Poetry Committee creates an annual list of Notable Poetry Books and Verse Novels published in the current year by any poet, living or deceased, and of any nationality.
Amphibian Acrobats written by Leslie Bulion
Box: Henry Brown Mails Himself to Freedom written by Carole Boston Weatherford
Cast Away: Poems of our Time written by Naomi Shihab Nye
Dictionary for a Better World written by Irene Latham & Charles Waters
I Wish written by Toon Tellegen
Mexique: A Refugee Story from the Spanish Civil War written by María José Ferrada
On the Horizon written by Lois Lowry
This Poem is a Nest written by Irene Latham
Woke: A Young Poet's Call to Justice written by Mahogany L. Browne
All He Knew written by Helen Frost
Becoming Muhammad Ali written by James Patterson & Kwame Alexander
Before the Ever After written by Jacqueline Woodson
The Kids Under the Stairs: BenBee and the Teacher Griefer written by K.A. Holt
Closer to Nowhere written by Ellen Hopkins
Flooded: Requiem for Johnstown written by Ann E. Burg
Grasping Mysteries: Girls Who Loved Math written by Jeannine Atkins
Land of the Cranes written by Aida Salazar
Love, Love written by Victoria Chang
The Canyon's Edge written by Dusti Bowling
The Places We Sleep written by Caroline Brooks DuBois
When you Know What I Know written by Sonja K. Solter
Wishes, Dares, & How to Stand Up to a Bully written by Darlene Beck-Jacobson