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