State Awards

2025-2026 and 2026-2027 State awards

Browse a catalog of our state award winners and nominees for 2025-2026 and 2026-2027 and add these books to your TBR! Highlights include:

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25-26 and 26-27 State Award Catalog

Congratulations, 2022 Morris Award Winner & Finalists!

Congratulations, 2022 Morris Award Winner & Finalists

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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

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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 →