2026 Youth Media Awards for Outstanding Children's and Young Adult LiteratureLike this list

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• All the Blues in the Sky

  Watson, Renee,

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  Winner of the Newbery Medal for Children's Literature. Sage's thirteenth birthday was supposed to be about movies and treats, staying up late with her best friend and watching the sunrise together. Instead, it was the day her best friend died.…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Fireworks

  Burgess, Matthew,

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  Winner of the Caldecott Medal celebrating children's illustration. As a hot day sizzles into evening, everyone on stoops and sidewalks looks skyward on this special summer night—the Fourth of July! Words and art blossom into flowers of fire across…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Legendary Frybread Drive-in

  Intertribal Stories

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  Winner of the Printz Award for Young Adult Literature. Featuring the voices of both new and acclaimed Indigenous writers and edited by bestselling Muscogee author Cynthia Leitich Smith, this collection of interconnected stories serves up laughter,…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Will's Race for Home

  a Western

  Rhodes, Jewell Parker,

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  Winner of the Coretta Scott King Author Award. It’s 1889, barely twenty-five years after the Emancipation Proclamation, and a young Black family is tired of working on land they don’t get to own. So when Will and his father hear about an upcoming…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• All the Noise at Once

  Davis, DeAndra,

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  The William C. Morris Award celebrates the achievement of a previously unpublished author, or authors, who have made a strong literary debut in writing for young adults. All Aiden has ever wanted to do was play football just like his star…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Alberto Salas Plays Paka Paka Con La Papa

  Join the Quest With Peru's Famed Scientist and Potato Expert

  Fajardo, Sara Andrea,

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  Winner of the Siebert Medal for Informational Books for Children. High up in the Andes mountains of Peru, agricultural scientist Alberto Salas is on a quest. A quest... for potatoes. Up and down the Andes mountains he goes, playing an epic game of…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Wanda Hears the Stars

  a Blind Astronomer Listens to the Universe

  Hansen, Amy,

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  The Schneider Family Book Awards honor an author or illustrator for a book that embodies an artistic expression of the disability experience for children. Growing up in Puerto Rico, Wanda Díaz Merced wanted to learn everything she could about the…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Many Things at Once

  Hiranandani, Veera,

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  Asian/Pacific American Awards honor books about Asian/Pacific Americans, their history and culture. Based on the author's own family history, here is a moving story about a young girl from two different backgrounds. The girl’s mother tells her…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Halfway to Somewhere

  Pimienta, Jose,

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  The Stonewall Book Award for Children's Literatue annually recognize "exceptional merit relating to the LGBTQIA+ experience" in English-language books. Ave thought moving to Kansas would be boring and flat after enjoying the mountains and trails in…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• One of the Boys

  Zeller, Victoria,

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  The Stonewall Book Award for Young Adult Literatue annually recognize "exceptional merit relating to the LGBTQIA+ experience" in English-language books. Grace Woodhouse was a star kicker with a D1 future, but that was before she came out as…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Popo the Xolo

  Lopez, Paloma Angelina,

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  The Pura Belpré Award to a Latino/Latina illustrator whose work best portrays, affirms, and celebrates the Latino cultural experience in an outstanding work of literature for children and youth. Nana is surrounded by family and takes joy in her many…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Pecan Sheller

  Ruiz-Flores, Lupe,

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  The Pura Belpré Award to a Latino/Latina writer whose work best portrays, affirms, and celebrates the Latino cultural experience in an outstanding work of literature for children and youth. In 1930s San Antonio, thirteen-year-old Petra dreams of…Read moreRead more of this annotation