2023 Nominees

Alone by Megan E. Freeman

Amari and the Night Brothers 

by B.B. Alston

Amazing Treasures: 100+ Objects and Place That Will Boggle Your Mind 

by David Long and Muti

Another Kind 

by Cait May and Trevor Bream

The Blackbird Girls 

by Anne Blankman

Black Boy Joy

edited by Kwame Mbalia

Brave Like That

by Lindsey Stoddard

The Elephant in the Room

by Holly Goldberg Sloan

Hide and Seeker 

by Dana Hermon

The Insiders

by Mark Oshiro

Last Gate of the Emperor

by Kwame Mbalia and Prince Joel Makonnen

The Legend of Auntie Po

by Shing Yin Khor

Linked by Gordon Korman

Ophie's Ghost by Justina Ireland

Rez Dogs

by Joseph Bruchac

The Shape of Thunder

by Jasmine Warga

Starfish by Lisa Fipps

This Book is Anti-Racist: 20 Lessons on How to Wake Up, Take Action, and Do the Work

 by Tiffany Jewell

Too Bright to See

by Kyle Lukoff

Turtle Boy

by M. Evan Wolkenstein