The American Library Association Youth Media Awards 2025

The 2025 American Library Association (ALA) Youth Media Awards were released in January. Every year, the ALA gathers to present these prestigious awards, including the Newbery, Caldecott and Coretta Scott King Awards. These prize winners are the books that shape childhoods. The following winners are available to borrow at the Sussex County Library System!!

Updated January 27, 2025
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Blackout /
Paper Book
Six critically acclaimed, bestselling, and award-winning authors bring the glowing warmth and electricity of Black teens in love to this charming, hilarious, and heartwarming novel that shines a bright light through the dark. A summer heatwave blankets New York City in darkness. But as the...

Margaret A. Edwards Award: Honors an author, as well as a specific body of his or her work, for significant and lasting contribution to young adult literature.

Chronically dolores /
Van Wagenen, Maya
Paper Book
Winner of The Schneider Family Book Award, for excellence in portraying the disability experience! Maya Van Wagenen, bestselling author of Popular, tells Dolores's story with humor, heartache, and an occasional bit of telenovela flair. "A striking...

Schneider Family Book Awards: Honors an author or illustrator for a book that embodies an artistic expression of the disability experience for child and adolescent audiences. This is a young adult book.

Continental drifter
Macleod, Kathy,
Paper Book
Winner of the American Library Association's Asian/Pacific American Award for Children's Literature With a Thai mother and an American father, Kathy lives in two different worlds. She spends most of the year in Bangkok, where she's secretly counting the days till summer...

Asian/Pacific American Award for Literature: Honors and recognizes individual works by Asian/Pacific American authors that highlight Asian/Pacific American cultures and experiences: Best Children's Literature

Continental drifter /
Macleod, Kathy,
Paper Book
Winner of the American Library Association's Asian/Pacific American Award for Children's Literature With a Thai mother and an American father, Kathy lives in two different worlds. She spends most of the year in Bangkok, where she's secretly counting the days till summer...

Asian/Pacific American Award for Literature: Honors and recognizes individual works by Asian/Pacific American authors that highlight Asian/Pacific American cultures and experiences: Best Children's Literature

Everything we never had /
Ribay, Randy.
Paper Book
Winner of the Asian/Pacific American Award for Literature Longlisted for the National Book Award Winner of the Boston Globe-Horn Book Fiction Award From the author of the National Book Award finalist Patron Saints of Nothing comes an emotionally charged, moving...

Asian/Pacific American Award for Literature: Honors and recognizes individual works by Asian/Pacific American authors that highlight Asian/Pacific American cultures and experiences: Best Young Adult Literature

Everything we never had /
Ribay, Randy.
Paper Book
Winner of the Asian/Pacific American Award for Literature Longlisted for the National Book Award Winner of the Boston Globe-Horn Book Fiction Award From the author of the National Book Award finalist Patron Saints of Nothing comes an emotionally charged, moving...
Grown : a novel
Jackson, Tiffany D.
Ebook
An instant New York Times bestseller! "Grown exposes the underbelly of a tough conversation, providing a searing examination of misogynoir, rape culture, and the vulnerability of young black girls. Groundbreaking, heart-wrenching, and essential reading for all in the #MeToo era." --Dhonielle...

Margaret A. Edwards Award: Honors an author, as well as a specific body of his or her work, for significant and lasting contribution to young adult literature.

Not like other girls /
Adamo, Meredith
Paper Book
"Powerful, brilliantly plotted, voicey, gripping, beautiful, heart-wrenching, hilarious . . . Read this book." -Liz Lawson, New York Times bestselling author of The Agathas William C. Morris Debut Award Winner When Jo-Lynn Kirby 's former best...

William C. Morris Award: Honors a debut book published by a first-time author writing for teens.

Shut up, this is serious /
Ixta, Carolina
Paper Book
WINNER OF THE PURA BELPRÉ YA AUTHOR AWARD *  A Morris Award Finalist * Parade Best Young Adult Books of All Time * Indie Next List Pick * An unforgettable YA debut about two Latina teens growing up in East Oakland as they discover that the world is brimming with...

Pura Belpre Awards: Presented 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 young adult. This award was given to best young adult author.

Twenty-four seconds from now :
Reynolds, Jason.
Paper Book
A Coretta Scott King Author Award Winner A New York Times Bestseller Seven starred reviews! "Jason Reynolds has done it again!...Fresh from start to finish...This is what it could be, should be, if only we were all as lucky as Aria. Girls (and...

Coretta Scott King Author Award: Honors outstanding books for young adults and children by African American authors and illustrators that reflect the African American experience. This is for a young adult book.

The weight of blood /
Jackson, Tiffany D.
Audiobook

Margaret A. Edwards Award: Honors an author, as well as a specific body of his or her work, for significant and lasting contribution to young adult literature.


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