ALA Youth Media Award Winners 2023Like this list

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• Freewater

  Luqman-Dawson, Amina,

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  The winner of the John Newbery Medal for the most outstanding contribution to children's literature, and the winner of the Coretta Scott King (Author) Book Award recognizing an African American author and illustrator of outstanding books…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Hot Dog

  Salati, Doug,

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  The winner of the Randolph Caldecott Medal for the most distinguished American picture book for children.

• Standing in the Need of Prayer

  a Modern Retelling of the Classic Spiritual

  Weatherford, Carole Boston, 1956-

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  The winner of the Coretta Scott King (Illustrator) Book Award.

• We Deserve Monuments

  Hammonds, Jas,

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  The winner of the Coretta Scott King/John Steptoe New Talent Author Award.

• Choosing Brave

  How Mamie Till-Mobley and Emmett Till Sparked the Civil Rights Movement

  Joy, Angela, 1975-

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  Winner of the Coretta Scott King/John Steptoe New Talent Illustrator Award.

• All My Rage

  Tahir, Sabaa,

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  Winner of the Michael L. Printz Award for excellence in literature written for young adults.

• Listen

  How Evelyn Glennie, a Deaf Girl, Changed Percussion

  Stocker, Shannon,

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  Winner of the Schneider Family Book Award for books (for young children) that embody an artistic expression of the disability experience.

• Wildoak

  Harrington, C. C.,

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  Winner of the Schneider Family Book Award for books (for middle grades) that embody an artistic expression of the disability experience

• The Words We Keep

  Stewart, Erin, 1982-

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  Schneider Family Book Award for books (for teens) that embody an artistic expression of the disability experience

• Just a Girl

  a True Story of World War II

  Levi, Lia, 1931-

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  Winner of the Mildred L. Batchelder Award for an outstanding children’s book originally published in a language other than English in a country other than the United States, and subsequently translated into English for publication in the…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Stuntboy, in the Meantime

  Reynolds, Jason,

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  Winner of the Odyssey Award for the best audiobooks produced for children, available in English in the United States

• The Honeys

  Ryan La Sala

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  Winner of the Odyssey Award for the best audiobooks produced for young adults, available in English in the United States

• Where Wonder Grows

  González, Xelena

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  Winner of the Pura Belpré Award honoring Latinx illustrators whose children's books best portray, affirm and celebrate the Latino cultural experience

• Frizzy

  Ortega, Claribel A.,

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  Winner of the Pura Belpré Award honoring Latinx writers whose children's books best portray, affirm and celebrate the Latino cultural experience

• Burn Down, Rise Up

  Tirado, Vincent,

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  Winner of the Pura Belpré Award honoring Latinx writers whose young adult books best portray, affirm and celebrate the Latino cultural experience

• Seen and Unseen

  What Dorothea Lange, Toyo Miyatake and Ansel Adams's Photographs Reveal About the Japanese American Incarceration

  Partridge, Elizabeth,

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  Winner of the Robert F. Sibert Informational Book Award for most distinguished informational book for children.

• Love, Violet

  Wild, Charlotte Sullivan,

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  Winner of the Mike Morgan & Larry Romans Children’s Literature Award for English-language works of exceptional merit for children relating to the gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender experience.

• When the Angels Left the Old Country

  Lamb, Sacha,

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  Mike Morgan & Larry Romans Young Adult Literature award for English-language works of exceptional merit for teens relating to the gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender experience. ALSO winner of the Sydney Taylor Book Award for…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• I Did It!

  Emberley, Michael,

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  Winner of the Theodor Seuss Geisel Award for the most distinguished beginning reader book.

• The Life and Crimes of Hoodie Rosen

  Blum, Isaac,

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  Winner of the William C. Morris Award for a debut book published by a first-time author writing for teens.