Awards
State Awards
Browse a catalog of our state award winners and nominees for 2024-2025 and add these books to your TBR! Highlights include:
- Odder by Katherine Applegate; illustrated by Charles Santoso
- Fallout by Steve Sheinkin
- Jumper: A Day in the Life of a Backyard Jumping Spider by Jessica Lanan
- Frizzy by Claribel Ortega and Rose Bousamra
- A First Time for Everything by Dan Santat
- Warrior Girl Unearthed by Angeline Boulley
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Congratulations to our 2023 ALA Award Winners & Honors!
We are proud to share our 2023
We are proud to share our 2023 ALA Award winners, honorees, and finalists from Macmillan Children’s Publishing Group, announced at the 2023 Youth Media Awards!
Learn more about our winners & honorees →Congratulations to our 2022 ALA Award Winners & Honors!
We are proud to share our 2022
We are proud to share our 2022 ALA Award winners, honorees, and finalists from Macmillan Children’s Publishing Group, announced January 24, 2022 at the Youth Media Awards!
Congratulations, 2022 Morris Award Winner & Finalists!
Congratulations, 2022 Morris Award Winner & Finalists
Congratulations to Angeline Boulley on winning this year’s William C. Morris Award for her debut novel Firekeeper’s Daughter! Congratulations to Morris Award Finalists Faridah Àbíké-Íyímídé, Amber McBride, and Cory Anderson on their outstanding debuts! Find the full list of YALSA Morris Award Winner & Finalists here.
Learn more about our Morris Award Winner & Finalists here →MacKids Spotlight: Amber McBride
MacKids Spotlight: Amber McBride
This month, we’re interviewing Amber McBride, author of debut novel-in-verse Me (Moth)! The novel is about a teen girl who is grieving the deaths of her family and a teen boy who crosses her path. The book publishes this August and has just earned its first star from Booklist, who described the story as being “hauntingly romantic.”
Amber shares more about her inspiration for the story and what she hopes young readers will learn here.
Read a Q&A with Amber here →Congratulations to our 2021 ALA Award Winners & Honors!
We are proud to share our 2021 ALA Award winners, honorees, and finalists from Macmillan Children’s Publishing Group, announced on Monday, January 25th at the Youth Media Awards!
Learn more about our winners & honors here →The ALA Book Award Celebration
The American Library Association is offering an exciting new free all-day virtual event celebrating the winners of several of its major book awards, including the esteemed Newbery and Caldecott medals, the Coretta Scott King Book Awards, the Printz Award, and the Stonewall youth and adult Book Awards.
Find out more about the celebrations and our ALA Award Winners →Visit our ALA Annual 2020 Virtual Booth
We’ll miss seeing you all in Chicago this year, but you don’t have to miss out on scoring digital ARCs of upcoming titles on NetGalley, entering to win a bundle of some of our favorite Fall 2020 ARCs, meeting your favorite authors, downloadable resources, and more! Visit our virtual booth below!
Visit our ALA Annual booth here →Congratulations to our 2020 ALA Award Winners!
Congratulations to all of this year’s award winners! Keep reading to find out more about our ALA Award winners, honors, and recommended reading selections from ALSC and YALSA.
View all our winners, honors, and recommended books here ➔