Award Winning Books for Children
Caldecott Medal

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.
2022-2023 Nominees
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.
2021-2022 Nominees
Newbery Medal


Coretta Scott King Award


2022 Award Winner
2022 Honor Books
2022 Illustrator Award Winner
2022 Illustrator Honor Books
Pura Belpré Award


2022 Award Winner
2021 Honor Books
2022 Illustrator Award Winner
2022 Illustrator Honor Books
Theodor Seuss Geisel Award


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.
Award Winning Books for Teens
Alex Awards


2022 Winners
Iowa High School Book Award


2022-2023 Nominees
Clap When You Land
- by Elizabeth Acevedo
Iowa Teen Award


2022-2023 Nominees
Morris Award


2022 Winner
Firekeeper’s Daughter
- by Angeline Boulley
Daunis, a half-Ojibwe, half-white former hockey player/aspiring scientist never feels fully settled in either her reservation or the outside world. She finds herself even more torn when she witnesses her best friend’s murder and is pulled into an FBI investigation centered on a lethal new drug running wild among her friends and family.
2022 Finalists
Printz Award


YALSA Nonfiction Award


2022 Winner
Ambushed! The Assassination Plot Against President Garfield
- by Gail Jarrow
An intricately detailed narrative of the assassination of President Garfield, Jarrow uses historical documents, newspaper accounts, and diary entries to create an engaging chronology of events as part of her Medical Fiascoes series.
2022 Finalists
YALSA Teen Top Ten


The Teens’ Top Ten is a “teen choice” list, where teens nominate and choose their favorite books of the previous year! Nominators are members of teen book groups in sixteen school and public libraries around the country. Nominations are announced the Thursday of National Library Week, and teens across the country vote on their favorite titles each year. Readers ages twelve to eighteen vote online between August 15 and October 15; the winners are announced during October (TeenTober).
Nominate a book to be considered for next years Teen Top Ten!