2024 William C. Morris Award Finalists

The Young Adult Library Services Association (YALSA), selected five books as finalists for the 2024 William C. Morris Award, which honors the year?s best books written for young adults by a previously unpublished author.

Updated December 20, 2023
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All the fighting parts
Sawyerr, Hannah V.
YALSA William C.Morris Award Finalist Walter Award Honor Book Rise List Top Ten Kirkus Books Best of the Year In the vein of Grown and The Poet X, Hannah V. Sawyerr's All the Fighting Parts is a searing and defiant young adult...
Once there was
Monsef, Kiyash
A New York Times bestseller! A Morris Award Finalist Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them meets Neil Gaiman in this "striking and heartfelt" (Kirkus Reviews) novel about an Iranian American girl who discovers that her father was secretly a...
Rez ball
Graves, Byron
This compelling debut novel by new talent Byron Graves tells the relatable, high-stakes story of a young athlete determined to play like the hero his Ojibwe community needs him to be. These days, Tre Brun is happiest when he is playing basketball on the Red Lake Reservation high school...
Saints of the household
Tison, Ari
Winner of the Pura Belpré Award and Walter Dean Myers Award for Young Adult Literature! Saints of the Household is a haunting contemporary YA about an act of violence in a small-town--beautifully told by a debut Indigenous Costa Rican-American writer--that will take...
She is a haunting
Tran, Trang Thanh
William C. Morris Debut Award Finalist Instant New York Times and Indie Bestseller This house eats and is eaten . . . "A riveting debut from a remarkable new voice! Trang Thanh Tran weaves an impressive gothic mystery in which...

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