2021 Benjamin Franklin Award (Awarded by Independent Book Publishers Association)

Awards List

Audio Fiction

Megge of Bury Down
(Gold Winner)
Rebecca Kightlinger

A Child Lost
(Silver Winner)
Michelle Cox

Dead Air
(Silver Winner)
Michael Bradley

Children's Pict/4-7 Yrs

A Letter from Tashi
(Gold Winner)
Carrie Hasler

The Caribbean Sea
(Silver Winner)
Matthew Gollub

The Tiny Giant
(Silver Winner)
Barbara Ciletti

Children's Picture

Buddy's Magic Window
(Gold Winner)
Dennis Glennon

Night Night Norman
(Silver Winner)
Marie Dimitrova

Under the Barnyard Light
(Silver Winner)
Carla Crane Osborne

Cover Design (Small)

Life and Other Shortcomings: Stories
(Gold Winner)
Corie Adjmi

Philurius College Blues Ray
(Silver Winner)
Carson Russell

Lyrics for Rock Stars: Stories
(Silver Winner)
Heather Mateus Sappenfield

Cover Design-Child & Y/A

The Christmas Ass
(Gold Winner)
Jana Enloe
  • / General Fiction
  • Buy Buy

Buddy's Magic Window
(Silver Winner)
Dennis Glennon

50 Million Years of Whales
(Silver Winner)
Ted Rechlin

Fiction (8-12 Years)

The Wizenard Series: Season One
(Gold Winner)
Wesley King

Valiant Savage
(Gold Winner)
Dave Edlund

The Eye of Zeus
(Silver Winner)
Alane Adams

The Moon Always Rising
(Silver Winner)
Alice C. Early

Treasure of the Blue Whale
(Silver Winner)
Steven Mayfield

Gobbledy
(Silver Winner)
Lis Anna-Langston

Fiction-Teen

Kid Sterling
(Gold Winner)
Christine Welldon

Lucid Design
(Silver Winner)
Kate Tailor

The Camino Club
(Silver Winner)
Kevin Craig

First Children & Y/A

Jump the Moon
(Gold Winner)
Kathy Simmers

Ice Queen
(Silver Winner)
Felicia Farber

Shreya's Very Own Style
(Silver Winner)
Suhani Parikh

First Fiction

A Noble Calling
(Gold Winner)
Rhona Weaver

Megge of Bury Down
(Silver Winner)
Rebecca Kightlinger

West of Sin
(Silver Winner)
Wesley S. Lewis

Graphic Novels

The Deadening
(Gold Winner)
Dana Sullivan

Icarus
(Silver Winner)
Gregory A. Wilson

The Saga of Evil Monkey Man!: Season One
(Silver Winner)
N. Blake Seals

Historical Fiction

Freedom Dues
(Gold Winner)
Indra Zuno

Copy Boy
(Silver Winner)
Shelley Blanton-Stroud

It Happened in Silence
(Silver Winner)
Karla Jay

Horror

Confessions of a Gentleman Killer
(Gold Winner)
Johnny Payne

The Nosferatu Conspiracy
(Silver Winner)
Brian James Gage

Roseneath
(Silver Winner)
Dana McSwain

Mystery/Suspense

A Lost Child
(Gold Winner)
Michelle Cox

Hanging Falls
(Silver Winner)
Margaret Mizushima

Things to Do When You'd Rather Be Dead
(Silver Winner)
Michael Guillebeau

New Voice Children-Y/A

Mrs. Mullendeck's Big Sneeze
(Gold Winner)
Suzanne Hansford Evans

Between Wild and Ruin
(Silver Winner)
Jennifer G. Edelson

The Peacemakers
(Silver Winner)
Rebecca Suter Lindsay

New Voice Fiction

Far Away Bird
(Gold Winner)
Douglas A. Burton

Poisoned Jungle
(Silver Winner)
James Ballard

Iceman Awakens
(Silver Winner)
Sharon Krasny

Religion

Flower of Iowa
(Gold Winner)
Lance Ringel

Charming Falls Apart
(Silver Winner)
Angela Terry

The Pearl
(Silver Winner)
Tiffany Reisz

Science Fiction/Fantasy

Leviathan
(Gold Winner)
R.M. Huffman

H'Ilgraith
(Silver Winner)
Mary Elizabeth Ames

Echoes of Darkness
(Silver Winner)
Cheryl Campbell

Award Categories

Animals/Pets

Audio Fiction

Audio-Children's

Audiobook

Boty-Budget Over 10k

Boty-Budget Under 10k

Children's Book W/Audio

Children's Picture Book (0-3 Years)

Children's Picture Book (4-7 Years)

Cover Design (Small)

Cover Design-1-2 Color

Cover Design-3 + Color

Cover Design-3+child-Y/A

Cover Design-3+color Lg

Cover Design-3+color SM

Cover Design-Child & Y/A

Cover Design-Fiction

Crafts/Hobby/How-To

E-Book

Education/Teaching

Fiction

Fiction-Teen

First Children & Y/A

First Fiction

Gay/Lesbian

Award Years

2022

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