Previous Winners

It is 1975 in Indiana, and the Wilkins Regional High School girls’ basketball team is in their rookie season. Unlike the boys’ team, the Lady Bears have no buses to deliver them to away games and no uniforms, much less a laundry service. With help from a committed female coach, they push through to improbable victory after improbable victory. 

Marlene has a hard time going to the salon with her mom every weekend to straighten her "unpresentable" curly hair. With her aunt's help, she learns to embrace the curl, care for her hair, and discovers that all hair is good hair.

Sixth grader Justin's best friend, Zee, has been missing for over a year and mysteriously returns acting very strange. At a party for Zee, his friends play hide-and-seek but then weird things happen, like a mysterious mark on the player's wrists which leads to their disappearance. An evil seeker pulls the friends into a world where their worst fears come to life. Zee managed to escape, can his friends escape too?

Dress Coded, is a podcast, a protest, and powerful. Molly is making eight grade girls voices heard. These girls are protesting the sexualizing of their bodies by the school administration’s dress code. It's biased and unfair and everyone is going to know about it.

June 6, 1944: D-Day. As the allies invade Normandy in the hopes of defeating the Nazis, nine voices, ranging from a teenage American soldier to a French-Algerian girl working for the Resistance, tell their gripping stories of what happened on a day that changed the course of World War II – and the 20th century – forever.

Teddy Youngblood gets injured and falls into a coma after football practice. Teddy’s family, friends, and community wants to know if it was just an accident - or was it done on purpose? Readers are able to follow along with the characters as they unravel the mystery of what really happened on that fateful day.

Eighth grader Chase Andrews fell off of his roof and suffered total amnesia. When Chase goes back to school, he is torn between old football loyalties and new video club friends. Is once a bully always a bully or can he truly RESTART his life?

Joseph, a father at age 13, has never seen his daughter, Jupiter. He is placed in a foster home in rural Maine where he meets 12-year-old Jack. Together, they discover the true meaning of family and sacrifice.