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 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 →This month, we’re interviewing Christian McKay Heidicker, author of 2020 Newbery Honor book Scary Stories for Young Foxes! This fall, the series continues with Scary Stories for Young Foxes: The City. This next installment chronicles the adventures of three fox kits desperate to survive the terrors of a frightening new world.
Christian shares more about his inspiration for the story and what he hopes young readers will learn here.
Read a Q&A with Christian here →Meet Gene Luen Yang, the author and illustrator of Dragon Hoops, a 2021 Printz Honor Book! Gene shares more about his inspiration for this book, his most memorable teacher, his favorite childhood book, and more!
Read a Q&A with Gene here →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 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 →We missed seeing you all in Boston this year, but you don’t have to miss out on scoring digital ARCs of upcoming nonfiction titles on NetGalley; entering to win a bundle of some of our favorite science books; discovering NSTA’s Reading Lists, and more resources! Visit our virtual booth below!
We missed seeing your friendly faces in Houston this year, but you don’t have to miss out on scoring digital ARCs on NetGalley, watching video messages from our authors, or discovering Texas State Reading List books and more resources! Visit our virtual booth below!
Visit our TLA virtual booth here →Join author Christian McKay Heidicker as he reads excerpts from his Newbery Honor Winner, Scary Stories for Young Foxes.