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Award Winning Books for Children

Caldecott Medal

The Caldecott Medal was named in honor of nineteenth-century English illustrator Randolph Caldecott. It is awarded annually by the Association for Library Service to Children, a division of the American Library Association, to the artist of the most distinguished American picture book for children.

2025 Winner

Chooch Helped

2025 Honor Books

Home in a Lunchbox

My Daddy is a Cowboy

Noodles on a Bicycle

Up, Up, Ever Up! Junko Tabei: A Life in the Mountains

Goldfinch Award

The Goldfinch Award gives children an opportunity to choose the award winning book and to suggest books for the yearly reading list. Books chosen are fiction or nonfiction titles appropriate for children in preschool through 3rd grade.

2025-2026 Nominees

Built to Last

Evergreen

Giraffe is Too Tall for this Book

How the Dinosaurs Went Extinct: A Safety Guide

How to Get Your Octopus to School

I Want 100 Dogs

Just Try It!

Lucky Duck

Ready to Soar

Simon and the Better Bone

Someone Just Like You

Thank You, Moon: Celebrating Nature’s Nightlight

The Wrong Book

There Was a Party for Langston

Time to Make Art

Tokyo Night Parade

What Happened to You

When Things Aren’t Going Right, Go Left

Why Not You?

Yetis Are the Worst

Iowa Children's Choice Award (ICCA)

The Iowa Children’s Choice Award gives children an opportunity to choose the award winning book and to suggest books for the yearly reading list. Books chosen are fiction or nonfiction titles appropriate for children in 3rd through 6th grade.

2025-2026 Nominees

A Work in Progress

Dogtown

Drawing Deena

Ferris

Firefly Summer

Good Different

Half Moon Summer

Hands

How to Catch a Polar Bear

It Found Us

Just Gus

Just Keep Walking

Labors of Hercules Beal

Max in the House of Spies

Not an Easy Win

Nothing Else But Miracles

Probability of Everything

Rewind

Shiny Misfits

Something Like Home

Superteacher Project

The Lion of Lark-Hayes Manor

The Lost Library

The Misfits: A Royal Conundrum

You Are Here: Connecting Flights

Newbery Medal

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The Newbery Medal was named for eighteenth-century British bookseller John Newbery. It is awarded annually by the Association for Library Service to Children, a division of the American Library Association, to the author of the most distinguished contribution to American literature for children.

2025 Winner

The First State of Being

2025 Honor Books

Across So Many Seas

Magnolia Wu Unfolds It All

One Big Open Sky

The Wrong Way Home

Coretta Scott King Award

The Coretta Scott King Book Awards are given annually to outstanding African American authors and illustrators of books for children and young adults that demonstrate an appreciation of African American culture and universal human values. The award commemorates the life and work of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., and honors his wife, Mrs. Coretta Scott King, for her courage and determination to continue the work for peace and world brotherhood.

2025 Award Winner

Twenty Four Seconds From Now

2025 Illustrator Award Winner

My Daddy is a Cowboy

2025 Honor Books

Black Girl You Are Atlas

Black Star

One Big Open Sky

2025 Illustrator Honor Books

Coretta: The Autobiography of Mrs. Coretta Scott King

Everywhere Beauty Is Harlem: The Vision of Photographer Roy DeCarava

Go Forth and Tell: The Life of Augusta Baker, Librarian and Master Storyteller

Pura Belpré Award

The award is named after Pura Belpré, the first Latina librarian at the New York Public Library. The Pura Belpré Award, established in 1996, is presented annually to a Latino/Latina writer and illustrator whose work best portrays, affirms, and celebrates the Latino cultural experience in an outstanding work of literature for children and youth. It is co-sponsored by the Association for Library Service to Children (ALSC), a division of the American Library Association (ALA), and REFORMA, the National Association to Promote Library and Information Services to Latinos and the Spanish-Speaking, an ALA affiliate.

2025 Winner

Lola

2025 Honor Books

Benitra y las Criaturas Nocturnas

Cruzita and the Mariacheros

Ultraviolet

Theodor Seuss Geisel Award

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The Geisel Award is given annually to the author(s) and illustrator(s) of the most distinguished American book for beginning readers published in English in the United States during the preceding year.

2024 Winner

Fox Has a Problem

2024 Honor Books

Henry, Like Always

Worm and Caterpillar are Friends

Award Winning Books for Teens

Alex Awards

The Alex Awards are given to ten books written for adults that have special appeal to young adults, ages 12 through 18. The winning titles are selected from the previous year’s publishing. The Alex Awards were first given annually beginning in 1998 and became an official ALA award in 2002.

2025 Winners

Beautiful People: My Thirteen Truths About Disability

Big Jim and the White Boy: An American Classic Reimagined

Daughters of Shandong

Dead Cat Tail Assassins

How To Solve Your Own Murder: A Novel

I Feel Awful, Thanks

I Was a Teenage Slasher

The Witch of Colchis

The Witchstone

Woman, Life, Freedom

American Indian Youth Literature Award

American Indian Library Association - Youth Literature Award

Awarded biennially, the AIYLA identifies and honors the very best writing and illustrations by Native Americans and Indigenous peoples of North America. Books selected to receive the award present Indigenous North American peoples in the fullness of their humanity

2024 Winner

Rez Ball

Ojibwe teen Tre works towards his dream of making the high school varsity basketball team and winning the state tournament, all while navigating friendships, romance, and the grief of losing and living in the shadow of his late older brother.

2024 Finalists

Funeral Songs for Dying Girls

Heroes of the Water Monster

Man Made Monsters

Warrior Girl Unearthed

Asian / Pacific American Award for YA

Asian / Pacific American Award for Literature

The Asian/Pacific American Award for Literature honors and recognizes individual works by Asian/Pacific American authors that highlight Asian/Pacific American cultures and experiences.

2025 Winner

Everything we Never Had

2025 Honor Book

Lunar New Year love story

Iowa High School Book Award

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In March, high school students across Iowa take part in the nomination of books for the Iowa High School Book Award. These books are reviewed by the IHSBA committee and teacher librarian volunteer readers and the list is narrowed. During the summer, the readers read and rate the titles. The committee members finalize the list in the fall. The list for the next school year is released in January for the following school year.

2025-2026 Nominees

Accountable

Artifice

Bittersweet in the Hollow

Brighter than the Sun

Dear Medusa

Divine Rivals

Invisible Son

Lunar New Year Love Story

Rez Ball

The Reappearance of Rachel Price

Thieves’ Gambit

What the River Knows

Iowa Teen Award

In March, teens across Iowa take part in the nomination of books for the Iowa Teen Award. These books are reviewed by the ITA committee and volunteer readers and the list is narrowed. During the summer, the adult readers read and rate the titles. In March, teens also vote for their favorite book from that year’s list.

2025-2026 Nominees

A First Time for Everything: a true story

Cross My Heart and Never Lie

Free Throws, Friendship & Other things we Fouled Up

Heroes

Mascot

Royal Blood

Simon Sort of Says

Slug Fest

The Encanto’s Daughter

The Lost Year

The Love Match

The Mona Lisa Vanishes

The Ruby Code

The School for Invisible Boys

Wrecker

Morris Award

The William C. Morris YA Debut Award honors a debut book published by a first-time author writing for teens and celebrating impressive new voices in young adult literature. The award’s namesake is William C. Morris, an influential innovator in the publishing world and an advocate for marketing books for children and young adults.

2025 Winner

Not Like Other Girls

2025 Finalists

Aisle Nine

Dead Things Are Closer Than They Appear

Shut Up, This Is Serious

The Wilderness of Girls

Printz Award

The Michael L. Printz Award is an award for a book that exemplifies literary excellence in young adult literature. It is named for a Topeka, Kansas school librarian who was a long-time active member of the Young Adult Library Services Association. The award is sponsored by Booklist, a publication of the American Library Association.

2025 Winner

Brownstone

2025 Finalists

Bright Red Fruit

Compound Fracture

Road Home

The Deep Dark

Stonewall Book Award Young Adult

Stonewall Book Award

Given to children’s and young adult books of exceptional merit relating to the gay, lesbian, bisexual & transgender experience.  Stonewall Book Awards is sponsored by the American Library Association’s Rainbow Round Table.

2025 Winner

Canto Contigo

2025 Finalists

Navigating with You

Road Home

Time and Time Again

YALSA Nonfiction Award

YALSA’s Award for Excellence in Nonfiction honors the best nonfiction book published for young adults (ages 12-18) during a Nov. 1 – Oct. 31 publishing year.

2025 Winner

Rising from the Ashes: Los Angeles 1992, Edward Jae Song Lee, Latasha Harlins, Rodney King, and a City on Fire

2025 Finalists

A Greater Goal: The Epic Battle for Equal Pay in Women’s Soccer- and Beyond

Homebody

Shackled: A Tale of Wronged Kids, Rogue Judges, and a Town that Looked Away

The Unboxing of a Black Girl