The full list of 2021 awards, winners, and honorees, can be found here. Each year the American Library Association (ALA) honors books, videos, and other outstanding materials for children and teens. Recognized worldwide for the high quality they represent, the ALA Youth Media Awards, including the prestigious Newbery, Caldecott, Printz, and Coretta Scott King Book Awards, guide parents, educators, librarians, and others in selecting the best materials for youth. Selected by committees composed of librarians and other literature and media experts, the awards encourage original and creative work in the field of children’s and young adult literature and media. More information on the ALA Youth Media Awards found here.
When You Trap a Tiger
Tae Keller
All Thirteen
Christina Soontornvat
Fighting Words
Kimberly Brubaker Bradley
We Dream of Space
Erin Entrada Kelly
A Wish in the Dark
Christina Soontornvat
Outside In
Deborah Underwood
Before the Ever After
Jacqueline Woodson
King and the Dragonflies
Kacen Callender
Lifting As We Climb
Evette Dionne
Me & Mama
Cozbi A. Cabrera
Legendborn
Tracy Deonn
Everything Sad Is Untrue
Daniel Nayeri
Apple
Eric Gansworth
Every Body Looking
Candice Iloh
We Are Not Free
Traci Chee
Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You
Jason Reynolds, Ibram X. Kendi
Kent State
Deborah Wiles
Show Me a Sign
Ann Clare LeZotte
Get a Grip, Vivy Cohen!
Sarah Kapit
When Stars Are Scattered
Victoria Jamieson, Omar Mohamed
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(none)
(untitled)
(none)
Lupe Wong Won't Dance
Donna Barba Higuera
How We Got to the Moon
John Rocco
Black Girl Unlimited
Echo Brown
Furia
Yamile Saied Méndez
Beetle & the Hollowbones
Aliza Layne
Felix Ever After
Kacen Callender
What About Worms!? (Elephant & Piggie Like Reading!)
Ryan T. Higgins, Mo Willems
Prairie Lotus
Linda Sue Park
This Light Between Us: A Novel of World War II
Andrew Fukuda
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(none)
Anya and the Nightingale
Sofiya Pasternack
The Blackbird Girls
Anne Blankman
