The American Library Association has announced the 2024 winners of their Youth Media Awards, which include the Newbery, Caldecott, and Printz Medals. These represent the year's best books for young readers in a variety of categories. Check out the list if you're looking for a great new read!
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The eyes & the impossible
by Dave Eggers 2024 John Newbery Medal From the award-winning author of The Every and the illustrator behind the beloved picture book Her Right Foot comes an endearing and beautifully illustrated story of a dog who unwittingly becomes a hero to a park full of animals. |
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Eagle drums
by Nasuêgraq Rainey Hopson 2024 John Newbery Honor This magical origin story of the Iñupiaq Messenger Feast, a Native Alaskan tradition, follows a young, skilled hunter who, confronted by a terrifying eagle god, is led on a harrowing journey during which he learns unexpected lessons about the natural world. |
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Elf dog & owl head
by M. T Anderson 2024 John Newbery Honor Quarantined with his family as a global plague ravages the world, Clay retreats to the woods where he meets a special little dog who leads him on surreal adventures where choosing the wrong path could cause them both to lose their way forever. |
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Mexikid
by Pedro Martin 2024 John Newbery Honor Pedro Martin's grown up in the U.S. hearing stories about his legendary abuelito, but during a family road trip to Mexico, he connects with his grandfather and learns more about his own Mexican identity in this moving and hilarious graphic memoir. |
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Simon sort of says by Erin Bow 2024 John Newbery Honor, 2024 Schneider Family Book Honor for Middle Grades Two years after surviving a school shooting, 12-year-old Simon moves to the only place in America where the internet is banned, finally getting a chance to spin his own story with the help of a new friend. |
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The many assassinations of Samir, the Seller of Dreams
by Daniel Nayeri 2024 John Newbery Honor This is the tale of an exciting journey along the Silk Road with a young Monk and his newfound guardian, Samir, a larger than life character and the so-called "Seller of Dreams." The man is a scammer; his biggest skill being the ability to talk his way into getting what he wants. While that talking did save Monkey's life, it has left a lot of people furious with Samir--furious enough to hire assassins. Monkey decides to try and save Samir from the attempts on his life--as a way to pay off his debt! If he can save Samir six times, he'll be a free man...but will they all survive that long? |
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Big
by Vashti Harrison 2024 Randolph Caldecott Medal, 2024 Coretta Scott King Author Honor, 2024 Coretta Scott King Illustrator Honor This emotional exploration of being big in a world that prizes small follows a young child's journey to self-love, showing the power of words to both hurt and heal. |
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In every life
by Marla Frazee 2024 Randolph Caldecott Honor Powerful and profound, this visually stunning picture book celebrates the moments, feelings and experiences, both big and small, that make up a life. |
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Jovita wore pants : the story of a Mexican freedom fighter
by Aida Salazar 2024 Randolph Caldecott Honor Presents the remarkable true story of Jovita Valdovinos, a Mexican revolutionary who disguised herself as a man to fight for her rights. |
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There was a party for Langston
by Jason Reynolds 2024 Randolph Caldecott Honor This finger-snapping, toe-tapping ode to the Word King and literary genius Langston Hughes invites readers to a heckuva party at the Schomberg Library where Maya Angelou, Amiri Baraka and others arrive to recite poems at their hero's feet. |
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The truth about dragons
by Julie Leung 2024 Randolph Caldecott Honor, 2024 Asian/Pacific American Award for Literature - Picture Book In a mix of Eastern and Western mythologies, a mother tells her child about two forests inhabited by different, but equally enchanting dragons that coexist within the child's heart. |
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Nigeria Jones
by Ibi Aanu Zoboi 2024 Coretta Scott King Author Award When her mother disappears, Nigeria Jones, the daughter of the leader of a Black liberation group, searches for her, uncovering a shocking truth which leads her to question everything she thought she knew about her life and her family. |
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Big
by Vashti Harrison 2024 Randolph Caldecott Medal, 2024 Coretta Scott King Author Honor, 2024 Coretta Scott King Illustrator Honor This emotional exploration of being big in a world that prizes small follows a young child's journey to self-love, showing the power of words to both hurt and heal. |
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How do you spell unfair? : MacNolia Cox and the national spelling bee
by Carole Boston Weatherford 2024 Coretta Scott King Author Honor This true story of determination and groundbreaking achievement follows eighth grade African American spelling champion MacNolia Cox, who left Akron, Ohio, in 1936 to compete in the prestigious National Spelling Bee in Washington, D.C., only to be met with prejudice and discrimination. |
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Kin : rooted in hope
by Carole Boston Weatherford 2024 Coretta Scott King Author Honor Conjuring up voices of their kin, who are among the founders of Maryland, the author and her son trace their family history back five generations, painting a powerful portrait of a Black family tree shaped by enslavement and freedom. |
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An American story
by Kwame Alexander 2024 Coretta Scott King Illustrator Award A picture book in verse that threads together past and present to explore the legacy of slavery during a classroom lesson. |
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Big
by Vashti Harrison 2024 Randolph Caldecott Medal, 2024 Coretta Scott King Author Honor, 2024 Coretta Scott King Illustrator Honor This emotional exploration of being big in a world that prizes small follows a young child's journey to self-love, showing the power of words to both hurt and heal. |
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Holding her own : the exceptional life of Jackie Ormes
by Traci N. Todd 2024 Coretta Scott King Illustrator Honor, The Robert F. Sibert Informational Book Honor An inspiring picture book biography of the first Black woman cartoonist to be nationally syndicated in the U.S. who, in post-World War II America, stayed true to her art while remaining honest about the inequalities Black people had been fighting. |
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There was a party for Langston
by Jason Reynolds 2024 Randolph Caldecott Honor, 2024 Coretta Scott King Illustrator Honor This finger-snapping, toe-tapping ode to the Word King and literary genius Langston Hughes invites readers to a heckuva party at the Schomberg Library where Maya Angelou, Amiri Baraka and others arrive to recite poems at their hero's feet. |
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There goes the neighborhood by Jade Adia 2024 Coretta Scott King/John Steptoe New Talent Author Award With her friends and family being pushed out of their South L.A. neighborhood, Rhea decides it's time to push back and manipulates social media to create the illusion of gang violence in their community to create fear and scare newcomers off, with deadly consequences. |
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Drawing on the lyrics from the song “We Could Fly,” this stunning picture book shares the incantatory dialogue between a mother and daughter that celebrates love, resilience and the spiritual power of tradition and shared cultural memory to sustain and uplift. |
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Centering around an unforgettable cast of characters and their strange and surprising collections, including a nonbinary kid collecting pieces of other people's collections, this anthology features contributions by such award-winning and best-selling authors as David Levithan and Jenny Torres Sanchez. |
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Fire from the sky
by Moa Backe Astot 2024 Michael L. Printz Honor With his life steeped in Sami tradition, Ánte wonders what people would think when his feelings for his best friend Erik grow into something more and if he should just ignore these emotions or go after what he truly wants. |
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Gather
by Kenneth M. Cadow 2024 Michael L. Printz Honor Ian Gray isn't supposed to have a dog, but a lot of things that shouldn't happen end up happening anyway. And Gather, Ian's adopted pup, is good company now that Ian has to quit the basketball team, find a job, and take care of his mom as she tries to overcome her opioid addiction. Despite the obstacles thrown their way, Ian is determined to keep his family afloat no matter what it takes. And for a little while, things are looking up: Ian makes friends, and his fondness for the outdoors and for fixing things lands him work helping neighbors. But an unforeseen tragedy results in Ian and his dog taking off on the run, trying to evade a future that would mean leaving their house and their land. Even if the community comes together to help him, would Ian and Gather have a home to return to? Told in a wry, cautious first-person voice that meanders like a dog circling to be sure it's safe to lie down, Kenneth M. Cadow's resonant debut brings an emotional and ultimately hopeful story of one teen's resilience in the face of unthinkable hardships. |
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The girl I am, was, and never will be : a speculative memoir of transracial adoption by Shannon Gibney 2024 Michael L. Printz Honor Part memoir, part speculative fiction, this story follows Erin Powers, a mixed-Black transracial adoptee raised by a white closeted lesbian, and is mixed with reproductions of the author's own adoption documents, letters, family photographs, interviews and medical records. |
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Salt the water
by Candice Iloh 2024 Michael L. Printz Honor A confrontation with a teacher and a family crisis force high school senior Cerulean Gene to drop out of twelfth grade and derails their dreams of moving cross-country and living off the grid. |
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Henry, like always by Jenn Bailey 2024 Schneider Family Book Award for Children 0-8, 2024 Theodor Seuss Geisel Honor Henry, a first grader on the autism spectrum, attempts to navigate friendships, and sudden changes in classroom routines--like a parade on Friday instead of share time. |
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Dancing hands : a story of friendship in Filipino sign language by Joanna Que 2024 Schneider Family Book Honor for Children 0-8 Sam is fascinated by her new neighbors and their ability to talk with their hands, and when she meets Mai, she starts to learn Filipino sign language so they can communicate. Includes dictionary of Philippine signs. |
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What happened to you?
by James Catchpole 2024 Schneider Family Book Honor for Children 0-8 |
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The fire, the water, and Maudie McGinn
by Sally J. Pla 2024 Schneider Family Book Award for Middle Grades Follows thirteen-year-old neurodivergent Maudie during an eventful summer in California with her father, where she struggles with whether to share a terrible secret about life with her mom and stepdad. |
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Good different
by Meg Eden Kuyatt 2024 Schneider Family Book Honor for Middle Grades Neurodivergent girl Selah, who always tries to keep her feelings in check—especially her anger—explodes at school one day, hitting a fellow student, and must figure out more about who she is in order to understand that different doesn't mean damaged. |
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Simon sort of says
by Erin Bow 2024 John Newbery Honor, 2024 Schneider Family Book Honor for Middle Grades Two years after surviving a school shooting, 12-year-old Simon moves to the only place in America where the internet is banned, finally getting a chance to spin his own story with the help of a new friend. |
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Suffering from agoraphobia after witnessing a scene of police brutality, Sadie discovers, with the help of family, friends and online activists, that she can build a safe place inside herself. |
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Having her heart set on a college in NYC with a major in Mass Media & Society, disabled high school senior Effie learns that sometimes growing up means being open to a world of possibilities you never even dreamed of. |
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Tilly in technicolor
by Mazey Eddings 2024 Schneider Family Book Honor for Teens |
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Mexikid
by Pedro Martin 2024 John Newbery Honor, 2024 Pura Belpré Youth Illustration Award, 2024 Pura Belpré Children’s Author Award Pedro Martin's grown up in the U.S. hearing stories about his legendary abuelito, but during a family road trip to Mexico, he connects with his grandfather and learns more about his own Mexican identity in this moving and hilarious graphic memoir. |
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2024 Pura Belpré Youth Illustration Honor, 2024 Pura Belpré Youth Author Honor Today, little Jesús has a big job to do. He's helping Papá at work, and he's in charge of the water jug -- which is also a magical clock! When it's empty, Papá explains, the workday is done. But what about all these thirsty animals? Soon, the water is gone, but the day is not over yet. Will Jesús be fired?! Or is the jug not really magical after all. |
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On Dia de los Muertos, a family prepares an ofrenda for their favorite furry family member, remembering all the ways that their beloved pet brought love and comfort to their lives. |
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Mexikid by Pedro Martin 2024 John Newbery Honor, 2024 Pura Belpré Youth Illustration Award, 2024 Pura Belpré Children’s Author Award Pedro Martin's grown up in the U.S. hearing stories about his legendary abuelito, but during a family road trip to Mexico, he connects with his grandfather and learns more about his own Mexican identity in this moving and hilarious graphic memoir. |
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When thirteen-year-old Leandro takes the fall for his sister and is exiled into an ancient drone, he embarks on a perilous journey beyond the city's walls where he encounters mutant monsters, wasteland pirates, and fellow outcasts as he tries to save his sister and fellow Cascabeles from the oppressive regime |
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Aniana del Mar belongs in the water like a dolphin belongs to the sea. But she and Papi keep her swim practices and meets hidden from Mami, who has never recovered from losing someone she loves to the water years ago. That is, until the day Ani's stiffness and swollen joints mean she can no longer get out of bed, and Ani is forced to reveal just how important swimming is to her. What follows is the journey of a girl who must grieve who she once was in order to rise like the tide and become the young woman she is meant to be. |
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Benita and the night creatures
by Mariana Llanos 2024 Pura Belpré Children’s Author Honor |
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Papa's magical water-jug clock
by Jesus Trejo 2024 Pura Belpré Youth Illustration Honor, 2024 Pura Belpré Youth Author Honor Today, little Jesús has a big job to do. He's helping Papá at work, and he's in charge of the water jug -- which is also a magical clock! When it's empty, Papá explains, the workday is done. But what about all these thirsty animals? Soon, the water is gone, but the day is not over yet. Will Jesús be fired?! Or is the jug not really magical after all. |
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When a lost dog helps Laura find a way home to her family, they discover family in each other along the way. |
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Saints of the household by Ari Tison 2024 Pura Belpré Young Adult Author Award, 2024 William C. Morris Honor After breaking up a fight that harms their school's star soccer player in the process, two Bribri American brothers have to lay low due to their physically abusive father and grapple with the weight of their actions to find their way forward. |
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The Prince and the Coyote
by David Bowles 2024 Pura Belpré Young Adult Author Honor Fifteen-year old crown prince Acolmiztli wants nothing more than to see his city-state of Tetzcoco thrive. A singer, poet, and burgeoning philosophical mind, he has big plans about infrastructure projects and cultural initiatives that will bring honor to his family and help his people flourish. But the two sides of his family, the kingdoms of Mexico and Acolhuacan, have been at war his entire life - after his father risked the wrath of the Tepanec emperor to win his mother's love. When a power struggle leaves his father dead and his mother and siblings in exile, Acolmiztli must run for his life, seeking refuge in the wilderness. After a coyote helps him find his way in the wild, he takes on a new name - Nezahualcoyotl, or "fasting coyote" ("Neza" for short). Biding his time until he can form new alliances and reconnect with his family, Neza goes undercover, and falls in love with a commoner girl, Sekalli. Can Neza survive his plotting uncles' scheme to wipe out his line for good? Will the empire he dreams of in Tetzcoco ever come to life? And is he willing to risk the lives of those he loves in the process? |
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Worm : a Cuban American odyssey by Edel Rodriguez 2024 Pura Belpré Young Adult Author Honor A stunning graphic memoir of a childhood in Cuba, coming to America on the Mariel boatlift, and a defense of democracy, here and there Hailed for his iconic art on the cover of Time and on jumbotrons around the world, Edel Rodriguez is among the most prominent political artists of our age. Now for the first time, he draws his own life, revisiting his childhood in Cuba and his family's passage on the infamous Mariel boatlift. When Edel was nine, Fidel Castro announced his surprising decision to let 125,000 traitors of the revolution, or "worms," leave the country. The faltering economy and Edel's family's vocal discomfort with government surveillance had made their daily lives on a farm outside Havana precarious, and they secretly planned to leave. But before that happened, a dozen soldiers confiscated their home and property and imprisoned them in a detention center near the port of Mariel, where they were held with dissidents and criminals before being marched to a flotilla that miraculously deposited them, overnight, in Florida. Through vivid, stirring art, Worm tells a story of a boyhood in the midst of the Cold War, a family's displacement in exile, and their tenacious longing for those they left behind. It also recounts the coming-of-age of an artist and activist, who, witnessing American's turn from democracy to extremism, struggles to differentiate his adoptive country from the dictatorship he fled. Confronting questions of patriotism and the liminal nature of belonging, Edel Rodriguez ultimately celebrates the immigrants, maligned and overlooked, who guard and invigorate American freedom. |
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The Mona Lisa vanishes : a legendary painter, a shocking heist, and the birth of a global celebrity by Nick Day 2024 Robert F. Sibert Informational Book Award Transporting readers back to turn-of-the-century Paris where they will bear witness to the heist of the Mona Lisa from the Louvre, which made it the most famous artwork in the world, this nonfiction thriller is shot through with stories of crime and celebrity, genius and beauty. |
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The book of turtles
by Sy Montgomery 2024 Robert F. Sibert Informational Book Honor This tribute to one of the most diverse, fascinating, and beloved species on the planet (turtles) speaks to the diversity and wisdom of these long-lived reptiles. |
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Holding her own : the exceptional life of Jackie Ormes by Traci N. Todd 2024 Coretta Scott King Illustrator Honor, 2024 Robert F. Sibert Informational Book Honor An inspiring picture book biography of the first Black woman cartoonist to be nationally syndicated in the U.S. who, in post-World War II America, stayed true to her art while remaining honest about the inequalities Black people had been fighting. |
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Jumper : a day in the life of a backyard jumping spider by Jessica Lanan 2024 Robert F. Sibert Informational Book Honor Filled with stunning illustrations, this nonfiction picture book brings to life the tiny, secret world of a backyard jumping spider as she goes about her day. |
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Shipwrecked! : diving for hidden time capsules on the ocean floor by Martin W. Sandler 2024 Robert F. Sibert Informational Book Honor Combining new research and archival material, this deep dive into the world of marine archaeology brings to life some of the most interesting shipwrecks from history, showing what each discovery reveals about the world before our time. |
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When Fox has a problem that causes all his friends to have problems too, they must work together to fix things before it's too late. |
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Henry, like always
by Jenn Bailey 2024 Schneider Family Book Award for Children 0-8, 2024 Theodor Seuss Geisel Honor |
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Worm and Caterpillar are friends
by Kaz Windness 2024 Theodor Seuss Geisel Honor |
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Cross my heart and never lie by Nora Dasnes Stonewall Book Awards – Mike Morgan & Larry Romans Children’s Literature Award Tuva is starting seventh grade, and her checklist of goals includes: writing out a diary, getting a trendy look, building the best fort in the woods with her BFFs, and much more. But when she starts school, nothing is how she hoped it would be. Seventh grade has split her friends into rival factions: TEAM LINNEA and the girls who fall in love and TEAM BAO and the girls who NEVER fall in love. Linnea has a BOYFRIEND, Bao hates everything related to love. Worst of all, Linnea and Bao expect Tuva to choose a side! In this delightfully hand-lettered coming-of-age graphic diary, Tuva gets caught between feeling like a kid and wanting to know HOW to become a teenager. Then Miriam shows up and suddenly Tuva feels as if she's met her soulmate. Can you fall in love with a girl, keep it from your friends, and survive? For Tuva, it may be possible, but it's definitely not easy. |
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Desert queen
by Jyoti Rajan Gopal Stonewall Book Awards – Mike Morgan & Larry Romans Children’s Literature Honor |
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Not he or she, I'm me by A. M. Wild Stonewall Book Awards – Mike Morgan & Larry Romans Children’s Literature Honor A child gets ready for a wonderful day. They gleefully get dressed, hug their parents, go to school, and play with friends. All the while, unapologetically reminding themselves that they are and can only be themselves. The nonbinary experience is brightly illustrated as we follow our main character through their typical day. The story's bouncy and fun refrain reminds all readers of gender-neutral pronouns and affirms the identities of nonbinary children - encouraging readers to practice empathy for themselves and others. |
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The Otherwoods by Justine Pucella Winans Stonewall Book Awards – Mike Morgan & Larry Romans Children’s Literature Honor Born with the ability to see monsters and travel to The Otherwoods, River Rydell has no choice but to confront this place they've only seen in their nightmares when their only friend (and crush) Avery is dragged into this terrifying world. |
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Stars in their eyes by Jessica Walton Stonewall Book Awards – Mike Morgan & Larry Romans Children’s Literature Honor Maisie is on her way to Fancon! She's looking forward to meeting her idol, Kara Bufano, the action hero from her favorite TV show, who has a lower-leg amputation, just like Maisie. But when Maisie and her mom arrive at the convention center, she is stopped in her tracks by Ollie, a cute volunteer working the show. They are kind, charming, and geek out about nerd culture just as much as Maisie does. And as the day wears on, Maisie notices feelings for Ollie that she's never had before. Is this what it feels like to fall in love. |
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Only this beautiful moment by Abdi Nazemian Stonewall Book Awards – Mike Morgan & Larry Romans Young Adult Literature Award Set against the backdrop of Tehran and Los Angeles, this sweeping intergenerational story, examining queer identity at the end of different decades, follows three boys in the same Iranian family as they each gain a new understanding of their history, culture—and themselves. |
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Ander & Santi were here : a novel
by Jonny Garza Villa Stonewall Book Awards – Mike Morgan & Larry Romans Young Adult Literature Honor |
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Imogen, obviously by Becky Albertalli Stonewall Book Awards – Mike Morgan & Larry Romans Young Adult Literature Honor Pretending to be her queer best friend Lili's former girlfriend, heterosexual Imogen Scott spends a lot of time with Lili's friend Tessa and starts to wonder if her truth was ever all that straight to begin with. |
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The long run by James G. Acker Stonewall Book Awards – Mike Morgan & Larry Romans Young Adult Literature Honor When fate—in the form of a party that gets busted—brings together two very different track-and-field athletes, each trying to figure out what they want out of life, they find a love for which they'd risk everything. |
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The spirit bares its teeth by Andrew Joseph White Stonewall Book Awards – Mike Morgan & Larry Romans Young Adult Literature Honor Shipped away in 1883 London to Braxton's Finishing School and Sanitorium after a failed attempt to escape an arranged marriage, 16-year-old autistic trans Silas Bell decides to expose the school's darkest secrets to the world when the ghosts of missing students beg him for help. |
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Houses with a story : a dragon's den, a ghostly mansion, a library of lost books, and 30 more amazing places to explore by Seiji Yoshida 2024 Mildred L. Batchelder Award A dreamer's tree house. A mechanic's cottage. A submerged city. Over thirty imaginative houses and the people who make them home offer unexpected worlds to wander through and explore. Who is the mischievous bridgetower keeper? What does the witch grow in her garden? How does the postal worker tame his delivery dragons? In each house, readers discover the contents of rooms and closets, what's at the top of the stairs and where shadowy hallways lead. Story text provides background and details about the lives of the residents and hints about their past and future. Lush illustrations, diagrams and detailed descriptions of each character, location and landscape open doors to whimsy, wonder, and endless possibilities. |
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In the wake of a devastating earthquake and tsunami, Yui, fleeing her violent husband, and Hiyori, a young orphan, are taken in by a strange but kind old lady named Kiwa in the small town of Kitsunezaki. The newly formed family finds refuge in a mayoiga, a lost house, perched atop a beautiful cape overlooking the sea. While helping to rebuild Kitsunezaki, the three adapt to their new lives and supernatural new home, slowly healing from their troubled pasts. Kiwa regales Yui and Hiyori with local legends--from the shapeshifting fox-woman who used to roam the mountains, to the demon Agame and a sea snake who once terrorized the townspeople, preying upon their grief and fears until they trapped the snake and the demon's claws in an underwater cave. But when mysterious and sinister events start happening around town, the three fear the worst. Did the earthquake release Agame and the sea snake into the world again? Kiwa, Yui, and Hiyori join forces with a merry band of kappa river spirits, a bold zashiki warashi house spirit, and flying Jizo guardian statues to save their new family and home and banish Agame and the snake once and for all. |
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Later, when I'm big
by Bette Westera 2024 Mildred L. Batchelder Honor |
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Pardalita
by Joana Estrela 2024 Mildred L. Batchelder Honor |
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Accountable : the true story of a racist social media account and the teenagers whose lives it changed by Dashka Slater 2024 YALSA Award for Excellence in Nonfiction for Young Adults This thought-provoking nonfiction narrative recounts the discovery of a racist social media account in the small town of Albany, California, that forever changes the lives of a group of high school students and leaves everyone wondering about accountability for harmful online speech. |
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America redux : visual stories from our dynamic history by Ariel Aberg-Riger 2024 YALSA Honor for Excellence in Nonfiction for Young Adults In this immersive experience, 21 visual stories reveal the extraordinary, unexpected, sometimes darker sides of history that reverberate in our society today, exploring themes that create our shared sense of American identity and questioning the myths we've been telling ourselves for centuries. |
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Family style : memories of an American from Vietnam by Thien Pham 2024 YALSA Honor for Excellence in Nonfiction for Young Adults Told through the lens of meaningful food and meals, this graphic novel chronicles the author's childhood immigration to America where food takes on new meaning as he and his family search for belonging, for happiness and for the American dream. |
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Refugee advocate Luma Mufleh writes of her tumultuous journey to reconcile her identity as a gay Muslim woman and a proud Arab-turned-American refugee. |
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Nearer my freedom : the interesting life of Olaudah Equiano by himself by Monica Edinger 2024 YALSA Honor for Excellence in Nonfiction for Young Adults Using Olaudah Equiano's autobiography as the source, the text shares Equiano's life story in found verse. Readers will follow his story from his childhood in Africa, enslavement at a young age, liberation, and life as a free man. |
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Rez ball by Byron Graves 2024 William C. Morris Award, 2024 American Indian Youth Literature Award - Young Adult When the varsity basketball team members take him under their wing, Tre Brun, representing his Ojibwe reservation, steps into his late brother's shoes as star player but soon learns he can't mess up—not on the court, not in school and not in love. |
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All the fighting parts
by Hannah V. Sawyerr 2024 William C. Morris Honor |
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Once there was
by Kiyash Monsef 2024 William C. Morris Honor |
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Saints of the household by Ari Tison 2024 Pura Belpré Young Adult Author Award, 2024 William C. Morris Honor After breaking up a fight that harms their school's star soccer player in the process, two Bribri American brothers have to lay low due to their physically abusive father and grapple with the weight of their actions to find their way forward. |
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She is a haunting
by Trang Thanh Tran 2024 William C. Morris Honor |
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Highlighting the ongoing impact of the 1950s Indian Relocation Act on Native families, this Native American story follows best-friend cousins as they discover that even though they are far apart, they will always be close. Simultaneous eBook. Illustrations. |
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Contenders : two Native baseball players, one World Series
by Traci Sorell 2024 American Indian Youth Literature Honor - Picture Book |
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A letter for Bob
by Kim Rogers 2024 American Indian Youth Literature Honor - Picture Book |
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Berry song
by Michaela Goade 2024 American Indian Youth Literature Honor - Picture Book |
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Remember
by Joy Harjo 2024 American Indian Youth Literature Honor - Picture Book |
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Rock your mocs
by Laurel Goodluck 2024 American Indian Youth Literature Honor - Picture Book |
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We still belong
by Christine Day 2024 American Indian Youth Literature Award - Middle Grade |
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Eagle drums
by Nasuêgraq Rainey Hopson 2024 John Newbery Honor, 2024 American Indian Youth Literature Honor - Middle Grade |
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Mascot
by Charles Waters 2024 American Indian Youth Literature Honor - Middle Grade |
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Fancy pants
by Dawn Quigley 2024 American Indian Youth Literature Honor - Middle Grade |
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Snow day
by Dawn Quigley 2024 American Indian Youth Literature Honor - Middle Grade |
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Maria Tallchief
by Christine Day 2024 American Indian Youth Literature Honor - Middle Grade |
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Wilma Mankiller
by Traci Sorell 2024 American Indian Youth Literature Honor - Middle Grade |
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Deb Haaland
by Laurel Goodluck 2024 American Indian Youth Literature Honor - Middle Grade |
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Rez ball
by Byron Graves 2024 William C. Morris Award, 2024 American Indian Youth Literature Award - Young Adult |
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With the rising number of missing Indigenous women, her family's involvement in a murder investigation and grave robbers profiting off her Anishinaabe tribe, Perry takes matters into her own hands to solve the mystery and reclaim her people's inheritance. |
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Funeral songs for dying girls
by Cherie Dimaline 2024 American Indian Youth Literature Honor - Young Adult |
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Man made monsters
by Andrea L. Rogers 2024 American Indian Youth Literature Honor - Young Adult |
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Heroes of the water monster
by Brian Young 2024 American Indian Youth Literature Honor - Young Adult |
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The truth about dragons
by Julie Leung 2024 Randolph Caldecott Honor, 2024 Asian/Pacific American Award for Literature - Picture Book In a mix of Eastern and Western mythologies, a mother tells her child about two forests inhabited by different, but equally enchanting dragons that coexist within the child's heart. |
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Young Mai and her mother embark on a long, perilous journey from Vietnam to America to find Papa, who left ahead of them to start a better life for their family. |
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Ruby lost and found by Christina Li 2024 Asian/Pacific American Award for Literature - Children's Book Forced to spend the summer at Nai-Nai's senior center, Ruby Chu works to help save a historic Chinatown bakery while revisiting her late Ye-Ye's favorite spots to find a way to deal with her grief—and maybe even find herself. |
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When their parents return to Taiwan, leaving her and her two older siblings in California on their own, Feng-Li must keep her family together as they all get tangled in a web of bad choices while navigating this strange new world. |
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I'd rather burn than bloom by Shannon C. F. Rogers 2024 Asian/Pacific American Award for Literature - Young Adult Left with nothing but burning anger after her mother dies suddenly, Filipina-American teen Marisol is determined to stay angry until a new friendship begins to develop, making her see there's something more to who she is, and who she could be. |
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Set between New Jersey and Seoul, this coming-of-age story follows the author as she goes to South Korea, where she realizes something that changes her perspective on her family, her heritage and herself. |
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A multicultural family celebrates the traditions of two New Years--the Jewish Rosh Hashanah in the autumn, and the Asian Lunar New Year several months later. |
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Afikomen
by Tziporah Cohen 2024 Sydney Taylor Book Honor - Picture Book |
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Hanukkah upside down
by Elissa Brent Weissman 2024 Sydney Taylor Book Honor - Picture Book |
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Hidden hope : how a toy and a hero saved lives during the Holocaust
by Elisa Boxer 2024 Sydney Taylor Book Honor - Picture Book |
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The dubious pranks of Shaindy Goodman
by Mari Lowe 2024 Sydney Taylor Book Award - Middle Grade |
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Don't want to be your monster
by Deke Moulton 2024 Sydney Taylor Book Honor - Middle Grade Adam and Victor are brothers who have the usual fights over the remote, which movie to watch and whether or not it's morally acceptable to eat people. Well, not so much eat . . . just drink a little blood. They're vampires, hiding in plain sight with their eclectic yet loving family. Ten-year-old Adam knows he has a better purpose in his life (well, immortal life) than just drinking blood, but fourteen-year-old Victor wants to accept his own self-image of vampirism. Everything changes when bodies start to appear all over town, and it becomes clear that a vampire hunter may be on the lookout for the family. Can Adam and Victor reconcile their differences and work together to stop the killer before it's too late? |
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The Jake show
by Joshua Levy 2024 Sydney Taylor Book Honor - Middle Grade |
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Not so shy
by Noa Nimrodi 2024 Sydney Taylor Book Honor - Middle Grade |
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A sky full of song
by Susan Meyer 2024 Sydney Taylor Book Honor - Middle Grade |
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The blood years
by Elana K. Arnold 2024 Sydney Taylor Book Award - Young Adult Based on the author's grandmother's true experiences during the Holocaust in Romania, this harrowing story follows Rieke Teitler as she must decide whether holding on to her life might mean letting go of everything that has ever mattered to her. |
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Courage to dream : tales of hope in the Holocaust
by Neal Shusterman 2024 Sydney Taylor Book Honor - Young Adult |
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Going bicoastal
by Dahlia Adler 2024 Sydney Taylor Book Honor - Young Adult |
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Impossible escape : a true story of survival and heroism in Nazi Germany
by Steve Sheinkin 2024 Sydney Taylor Book Honor - Young Adult |
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Wrath becomes her
by Aden Polydoros 2024 Sydney Taylor Book Honor - Young Adult |