Award

The Strawberry Patch Pancake House

Laurie Gilmore

A Giraffe and a Half

Shel Silverstein

Volcanoes

Seymour Simon

Just Kids

Patti Smith

Inside Out and Back Again

Thanhhà Lai

Now Is Your Time!

Walter Dean Myers

Soldiers and Kings

Jason De León

Night Watch

Kevin Young

Tumble

Celia C. Pérez, Victoria Villarreal

Kings of B'more

R. Eric Thomas

City Summer, Country Summer

Kiese Laymon

Contenders

Traci Sorell

The Infernal Machine

Steven Johnson

Everything We Never Had

Randy Ribay

Mexikid

Pedro Martín

Sea of Tranquility

Emily St. John Mandel

Death in the Jungle

Candace Fleming

Remember

Joy Harjo

A Bird in the Air Means We Can Still Breathe

Mahogany L. Browne

Whale Eyes

James Robinson

Rosa by Any Other Name

Hailey Alcaraz

Kapaemahu

Hinaleimoana Wong-Kalu, Dean Hamer

Aniana Del Mar Jumps in

Jasminne Mendez

The Story of My Anger

Jasminne Mendez

The Trembling Hand

Mathelinda Nabugodi

A Stranger in Your Own City

Ghaith Abdul-Ahad

Black Moses

Caleb Gayle

When It All Burns

Jordan Thomas

The History of We

Nikkolas Smith

A World Without Summer

Nicholas Day