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.

Brownstone
Teer, Samuel,
Paper Book
An Indie Next List Selection! A Harvey Award Nominee! "Angsty. Awkward. With a scrappy heart of gold, Brownstone is a must-read for anyone who's ever felt totally out of place." --Gabby Rivera, bestselling author of Juliet Takes a Breath An exciting teen coming...

Michael L. Printz Award: Presented to a book that exemplifies literary excellence in young adult literature.

Brownstone /
Teer, Samuel,
Paper Book
A Harvey Award Nominee! An Indie Next List Selection! A Kirkus Reviews Best Book! A Publishers Weekly Best Book! "Angsty. Awkward. With a scrappy heart of gold, Brownstone is a must-read for anyone who's ever felt totally out of place." --Gabby...

Michael L. Printz Award: Presented to a book that exemplifies literary excellence in young adult literature.

Everything we never had /
Ribay, Randy.
Paper Book
LONGLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD!From the author of the National Book Award finalist Patron Saints of Nothing comes an emotionally charged, moving novel about four generations of Filipino American boys grappling with identity, masculinity, and their fraught father-son...

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
LONGLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD!From the author of the National Book Award finalist Patron Saints of Nothing comes an emotionally charged, moving novel about four generations of Filipino American boys grappling with identity, masculinity, and their fraught father-son...
How do you spell unfair? :
Weatherford, Carole Boston,
Paper Book
A Coretta Scott King Author Honor Book "This moving picture book portrays a girl who met injustice with dignity and excelled."--Booklist (starred review) From a multi-award-winning pair comes a deeply affecting portrait of...

Children's Literature Legacy Award: Honors an author or illustrator whose books, published in the United States, have made, over a period of years, a substantial and lasting contribution to literature for children through books that demonstrate integrity and respect for all children's lives and experiences. Winner: Carole Boston Weatherford

Let me hear a rhyme /
Jackson, Tiffany D.
Ebook
In this striking new novel by the critically acclaimed author of Allegedly and Monday's Not Coming, Tiffany D. Jackson tells the story of three Brooklyn teens who plot to turn their murdered friend into a major rap star by pretending he's still alive. Brooklyn, 1998. Biggie Smalls was...

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.

Monday's not coming :
Jackson, Tiffany D.
Paper Book
"Jackson's characters and their heart-wrenching story linger long after the final page, urging readers to advocate for those who are disenfranchised and forgotten by society and the system." (Publishers Weekly, "An Anti-Racist Children's and YA Reading List") From 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.

My daddy is a cowboy /
Seales, Stephanie,
Paper Book
A Caldecott Honor Book A Coretta Scott King Illustrator Award Book A young girl and her father share an early morning horseback ride around their city in My Daddy Is a Cowboy, an award-winning picture book celebration of "just-us time,"...

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 best illustrator (picture book)

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 When Jo-Lynn Kirby 's former best friend-pretty, nice Maddie Price-comes to her claiming to...

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.
Paper Book
* AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * INDIE BESTSELLER * JUNIOR LIBRARY GUILD SELECTION * KIDS' INDIE NEXT LIST PICK * NPR BEST PICK * KIRKUS BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR * New York Times bestselling author Tiffany D. Jackson ramps up the horror and tackles America's history and...

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.

White smoke /
Jackson, Tiffany D.
Paper Book
The Haunting of Hill House meets Get Out in this chilling YA psychological thriller and modern take on the classic haunted house story from New York Times bestselling author Tiffany D. Jackson! Marigold is running from ghosts. The phantoms of her old...

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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