JLG Selections Take Home 63 ALA Awards & Honors
Three cheers for all the American Library Association Youth Media Award winners and honorees! Yay ALA! Yay ALA! Yay ALA!
We are thrilled to announce that 63 of the 112 winners/honorees were JLG selections. We are so proud of our amazing authors and illustrators, as well as our talented editorial team and their history of picking winners. Every year, JLG's esteemed editorial team reviews thousands of manuscripts long before publication to choose the best of the best for our categories--and 95% of their selections go on to win awards, honors and starred reviews. That's why our members trust JLG to bring first-edition, hardcover, award-worthy books to their shelves all year long!
Newbery Medal Winner
New Kid
Category: Graphic Novels Middle Plus (grades 5-8) and Audiobook Middle12 (grades 5-8)
Newbery Medal Honor Books
The Undefeated
Character Building Elementary (grades 2-6)
Scary Stories for Young Foxes
Category: Mystery/Adventure Elementary Plus (grades 2-6)
Other Words for Home
Category: Realistic Fiction Middle Plus (grades 5-8) and Audiobook Middle12 (grades 5-8)
Genesis Begins Again
Category: Advanced Readers (grades 6-9)
Caldecott Medal Winner
The Undefeated
Category: Character Building Elementary (grades 2-6)
Caldecott Medal Honor Books
Double Bass Blues
Category: Emergent Readers Plus (grades K-1)
Coretta Scott King Author Award Winner
New Kid
Category: Graphic Novels Middle Plus (grades 5-8) and Audiobook Middle12 (grades 5-8)
Coretta Scott King Author Award Honor Books
The Stars and the Blackness Between Them
Category: City High School (grades 10 & up)
Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky
Category: Fantasy/Science Fiction Middle Plus (grades 5-8)
Look Both Ways: A Tale Told in Ten Blocks
Category: Upper Elementary & Junior High (grades 5-7)
Coretta Scott King Illustrator Award Winner
The Undefeated
Category: Character Building Elementary (grades 2-6)
Coretta Scott King Illustrator Award Honor Books
The Bell Rang
Category: Easy Reading Plus (grades 1-3)
Infinite Hope: A Black Artist’s Journey from World War II to Peace
Category: Biography Middle Plus (grades 5-8)
Coretta Scott King/John Steptoe New Talent Author Award Winner
Genesis Begins Again
Category: Advanced Readers (grades 6-9)
Coretta Scott King/John Steptoe New Talent Illustrator Award Winner
What Is Given from the Heart
Category: Character Building Elementary (grades 2-6)
Michael L. Printz Award Winner
Dig
Category: Mature Young Adults Plus (grades 11 & up)
Michael L. Printz Honor Books
Laura Dean Keeps Breaking Up with Me
Category: Graphic Novels High Plus (grades 9 & up)
Ordinary Hazards: A Memoir
Category: Biography High Plus (grades 9 & up)
Where the World Ends
Category: Young Adults Plus (grades 9 & up)
Schneider Family Book Awards
Winner—Middle Grades (ages 11-13)
Song for a Whale
Category: Upper Elementary & Junior High Plus (grades 5-7) and Audiobook Middle12 Plus (grades 5-8)
Winner—Teens (ages 13-18)
Cursed
Category: City High School (grades 10 & up)
Honor—Teens (ages 13-18)
The Silence Between Us
Category: PG High Plus (grades 9 & up)
Alex Awards
Do You Dream of Terra-Two?
Category: Paperbacks High (grades 10 & up)
In Waves
Category: Graphic Novels High Plus (grades 9 & up)
Mildred L. Batchelder Award Honors
The Distance Between Me and the Cherry Tree
Category: Intermediate Readers (grades 3-5)
Do Fish Sleep?
Category: Intermediate Readers Plus (grades 3-5)
Odyssey Award Winner
Hey, Kiddo: How I Lost My Mother, Found My Father, and Dealt with Family Addiction
Category: Graphic Novels High Plus (grades 9 & up) and Audiobook Mature Young Adult12 (grades 11 & up)
Odyssey Award Honors
Song for a Whale
Category: Upper Elementary & Junior High Plus (grades 5-7) and Audiobook Middle12 Plus (grades 5-8)
Pura Belpré Illustrator Award
Dancing Hands: How Teresa Carreño Played the Piano for President Lincoln
Category: Nonfiction Early Elementary Plus (grades K-2)
Belpré Illustrator Honor Books
My Papi Has a Motorcycle
Category: Primary Spanish (grades K-3) and City Elementary (grades 2-6)
¡Vamos! Let’s Go to the Market
Category: Multicultural Elementary (grades 2-6)
Pura Belpré Author Award
Sal and Gabi Break the Universe
Category: Upper Elementary and Junior High Plus (grades 5-7) and Audiobooks Middle 12 Plus (grades 5-8)
Belpré Author Honor Books
The Other Half of Happy
Category: Advanced Readers Plus (grades 6-9)
Planting Stories: The Life of Librarian and Storyteller Pura Belpré
Category: City Elementary (grades 2-6) and Primary Spanish (grades K-3)
Soldier for Equality: José de la Luz Sáenz and the Great War
Category: Biography Elementary Plus (grades 2-6)
Robert F. Sibert Honor Books
All in a Drop: How Antony van Leeuwenhoek Discovered an Invisible World
Category: Science Nonfiction Elementary Plus (grades 2-6)
This Promise of Change: One Girl’s Story in the Fight for School Equality
Category: Advanced Readers Plus (grades 6-9)
Ordinary Hazards: A Memoir
Category: Biography High Plus (grades 9+)
Stonewall Book Award—Mike Morgan & Larry Romans Children’s & Young Adult Literature Award Honors
Pet
Category: Advanced Readers (grades 6-9)
Like a Love Story
Category: Mature Young Adults Plus (grades 11 & up)
The Best at It
Category: Advanced Readers Plus (grades 6-9) and Audiobook Middle12 Plus (grades 5-8)
Theodor Seuss Geisel Award Honors
Chick and Brain: Smell My Foot!
Category: Easy Reading (grades 1-3)
Flubby Is Not a Good Pet
Category: Emergent Readers Plus (grades K-1)
William C. Morris Award Winner
The Field Guide to the North American Teenager
Category: Mature Young Adults Plus (grades 11 & up) and Audiobook Mature Young Adult12 (grades 11 & up)
William C. Morris Award Honors
The Candle and the Flame
Category: Fantasy/Science Fiction High Plus (grades 9-12) and Audiobook High12 (grades 9-12)
Frankly in Love
Category: High Interest High Plus (grades 10 & up) and Audiobook Mature Young Adult12 (grades 11 & up)
Genesis Begins Again
Category: Advanced Readers (grades 6-9)
YALSA Award for Excellence in Nonfiction for Young Adults Winner
Free Lunch
Category: Biography Middle Plus (grades 5-8)
YALSA Award for Excellence in Nonfiction for Young Adults Honors
The Great Nijinsky: God of Dance
Category: History High (grades 10+)
A Light in the Darkness: Janusz Korczak, His Orphans, and the Holocaust
Category: History High (grades 10+)
Torpedoed: The True Story of the World War II Sinking of "The Children’s Ship"
Category: Nonfiction Middle Plus (grades 5-8)
Asian/ Pacific American Award for Literature
Children’s Literature Winner
Stargazing
Category: Graphic Novels Elementary Plus (grades 3-6)
Children’s Literature Honor
I’m Ok
Category: Upper Elementary and Junior High (grades 5-7)
Young Adult Literature Honor
Frankly in Love
Category: High Interest High Plus (grades 10 & up) and Audiobook Mature Young Adult12 (grades 11 & up)
The Sydney Taylor Book Award
Picture Book Winner
The Book Rescuer: How a Mensch from Massachusetts Saved Yiddish Literature for Generations to Come
Category: Nonfiction Elementary Plus (grades 2-6)
Middle Grade Winner
White Bird: A Wonder Story
Category: Realistic Fiction Middle Plus (grades 5-8)
Middle Grade Honor
Games of Deception: The True Story of the First U.S. Olympic Basketball Team at the 1936 Olympics in Hitler’s Germany
Category: Nonfiction High Plus (grades 9+)
Young Adult Winner
Someday We Will Fly
Category: History High (grades 10+)
Young Adult Honor
Sick Kids in Love
Category: City High School (grades 10 & up)
The American Indian Youth Literature Award
Picture Book Honor
We Are Grateful: Otsaliheliga
Category: Character Building Elementary (grades 2-6)
Middle Grade Book Winner
Indian No More
Category: Realistic Fiction Middle Plus (grades 5-8)
Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction
Midnight in Chernobyl: The Story of the World's Greatest Nuclear Disaster
Category: Adult Crossover Nonfiction Plus (grades 11+)
