Here are the top Young Adult books for 2021 chosen by the American Library Association!
All the Days Past, All the Days to Come by Mildred D. Taylor - Honor, Coretta Scott King Book Award
Legendborn by Tracy Deonn - winner, John Steptoe New Talent Author Award
Everything Sad Is Untrue by Daniel Nayeri - winner, Printz Award
Apple (Skin to the Core) by Eric Gansworth - honor, Printz Award
Dragon Hoops by Gene Luen Yang, color by Lark Pien - honor, Printz Award
Every Body Looking by Candice Iloh - honor, Printz Award
We Are Not Free by Traci Chee - honor, Printz Award
This is My Brain in Love by I.W. Gregorio - winner, Schneider Family Book Award
Furia by Yamile Saied Mendez - winner, Pura Belpre Young Adult Author Award
Never Look Back by Lilliam Rivera - honor, Pura Belpre Young Adult Author Award
We Are Not From Here by Jenny Torres Sanchez - honor, Pura Belpre Young Adult Author Award
Darius the Great Deserves Better by Adib Khorram - honor, Stonewall Book Award
Felix Ever After by Kacen Callender - honor, Stonewall Book Award
You Should See Me in a Crown by Leah Johnson - honor, Stonewall Book Award
If These Wings Could Fly by Kyrie McCauley - winner, Morris Award
Black Girl Unlimited by Echo Brown - honor, Morris Award
The Black Kids by Christina Hammonds Reed - honor, Morris Award
It Sounded Better in My Head by Nina Kenwood - honor, Morris Award
Woven in Moonlight by Isabel Ibanez - honor, Morris Award
The Rise and Fall of Charles Lindbergh by Candace Fleming - winner, YALSA Award for Excellence in Nonfiction
The Cat I Never Named by Amra Sabic-El-Rayess - honor, YALSA Award for Excellence in Nonfiction
You Call This Democracy? by Elizabeth Rusch - honor, YALSA Award for Excellence in Nonfiction
The Light Between Us by Andrew Fukuda - winner, Asian/Pacific American award for Literature
Displacement by Kiku Hughes - honor, Asian/Pacific American award for Literature
Dancing at the Pity Party by Tyler Feder - Gold Medalist, Sydney Taylor Book Award
They Went Left by Monica Hesse - Silver Medalist, Sydney Taylor Book Award
All the Days Past, All the Days to Come
Mildred D. Taylor
Legendborn
Tracy Deonn
Everything Sad Is Untrue
Daniel Nayeri
Apple
Eric Gansworth
Dragon Hoops
Gene Luen Yang
Every Body Looking
Candice Iloh
We Are Not Free
Traci Chee
This Is My Brain in Love
I. W. Gregorio
Furia
Yamile Saied Méndez
Never Look Back
Lilliam Rivera
We Are Not from Here
Jenny Torres Sanchez
Darius the Great Deserves Better
Adib Khorram
Felix Ever After
Kacen Callender
You Should See Me in a Crown
Leah Johnson
If These Wings Could Fly
Kyrie McCauley
Black Girl Unlimited
Echo Brown
The Black Kids
Christina Hammonds Reed
It Sounded Better in My Head
Nina Kenwood
Woven in Moonlight
Isabel Ibañez
The Rise and Fall of Charles Lindbergh
Candace Fleming
The Cat I Never Named
Amra Sabic-El-Rayess, Laura L. Sullivan
You Call This Democracy?
Elizabeth Rusch
This Light Between Us: A Novel of World War II
Andrew Fukuda
Displacement
Kiku Hughes
Dancing at the Pity Party
Tyler Feder
