Booklist Editors Choice - Youth (Awarded by ALA: The American Library Association)

Awards List

2022

All My Rage
(Top of the List)
Sabaa Tahir

Love in the Library
(*)
Maggie Tokuda-Hall

Maizy Chen's Last Chance
(*)
Lisa Yee

And They Lived . . .
(*)
Steven Salvatore

Diamond Park
(*)
Phillippe Diederich

Ellen Outside the Lines
(*)
A.J. Sass

Kiss & Tell
(*)
Adib Khorram

The Sheep, the Rooster, and the Duck
(*)
Matt Phelan

Squire
(*)
Nadia Shammas

Those Kids from Fawn Creek
(*)
Erin Entrada Kelly

Worser
(*)
Jennifer Ziegler

Alone Out Here
(*)
Riley Redgate

Different Kinds of Fruit
(*)
Kyle Lukoff

Heartbreak Symphony
(*)
Laekan Zea Kemp

Little Monarchs
(*)
Jonathan Case

Nothing Burns as Bright as You
(*)
Ashley Woodfolk

Jennifer Chan Is Not Alone
(*)
Tae Keller

Only on the Weekends
(*)
Dean Atta

The Patron Thief of Bread
(*)
Lindsay Eagar

Swim Team
(*)
Johnnie Christmas

Unfadeable
(*)
Maurice Broaddus

Hell Followed with Us
(*)
Andrew Joseph White

This Place Is Still Beautiful
(*)
XiXi Tian

All Four Quarters of the Moon
(*)
Shirley Marr

Our Crooked Hearts
(*)
Melissa Albert

The Epic Story of Every Living Thing
(*)
Deb Caletti

Lily and the Night Creatures
(*)
Nick Lake

Self-Made Boys: A Great Gatsby Remix
(*)
Anna-Marie McLemore

Man Made Monsters
(*)
Andrea L. Rogers

Oh, Sal
(*)
Kevin Henkes

A Rover's Story
(*)
Jasmine Warga

My Aunt Is a Monster
(*)
Reimena Yee

Torch
(*)
Lyn Miller-Lachmann

2021

The Lion of Mars
(Top of the List)
Jennifer L. Holm

Little Witch Hazel
(Top of the List)
Phoebe Wahl

Himawari House
(Top of the List)
Harmony Becker

The Deepest Breath
(*)
Meg Grehan

Voyage of the Sparrowhawk
(*)
Natasha Farrant

I Dream of Popo
(*)
Livia Blackburne

Last Night at the Telegraph Club
(*)
Malinda Lo

Sheepish (Wolf Under Cover)
(*)
Helen Yoon

The Electric Kingdom
(*)
David Arnold

Love Is a Revolution
(*)
Renee Watson

The Midnight Fair
(*)
Gideon Sterer

The Year I Flew Away
(*)
Marie Arnold

Amber and Clay
(*)
Laura Amy Schlitz

Boy, Everywhere
(*)
A.M. Dassu

Firekeeper's Daughter
(*)
Angeline Boulley

When We Were Infinite
(*)
Kelly Loy Gilbert

Cece Rios and the Desert of Souls
(*)
Kaela Rivera

The Night Walk
(*)
Marie Dorleans

The Republic of Birds
(*)
Jessica Miller

Between Perfect and Real
(*)
Ray Stoeve

Cool for the Summer
(*)
Dahlia Adler

Fred Gets Dressed
(*)
Peter Brown

Out into the Big Wide Lake
(*)
Paul Harbridge

A Sitting in St. James
(*)
Rita Williams-Garcia

A Boy Named Isamu
(*)
James Yang

The Darkness Outside Us
(*)
Eliot Schrefer

Instructions for Dancing
(*)
Nicola Yoon

Memory Jars
(*)
Vera Brosgol

One Great Lie
(*)
Deb Caletti

Pawcasso
(*)
Remy Lai

Harry Versus the First 100 Days of School
(*)
Emily Jenkins

This Poison Heart
(*)
Kalynn Bayron

The Little Wooden Robot and the Log Princess
(*)
Tom Gauld

Me (Moth)
(*)
Amber McBride

Kaleidoscope
(*)
Brian Selznick

Kneel
(*)
Candace Buford

The List of Unspeakable Fears
(*)
J. Kasper Kramer

Everybody in the Red Brick Building
(*)
Anne Wynter

Little Thieves
(*)
Margaret Owen

Oksi
(*)
Mari Ahokoivu

Playing the Cards You're Dealt
(*)
Varian Johnson

Salt Magic
(*)
Hope Larson

The Secret of the Magic Pearl
(*)
Elisa Sabatinelli

Second Sleep
(*)
Diane Stanley

2020

Dragon Hoops
(Top of the List)
Gene Luen Yang

Burn
(Top of the List)
Patrick Ness

Nana Akua Goes to School
(Top of the List)
Patricia Elam Walker

Black Is a Rainbow Color
(*)
Angela Joy

Given
(*)
Nandi Taylor

The Old Truck
(*)
Jarrett Pumphrey; Jerome Pumphrey

Overground Railroad
(*)
Lesa Cline-Ransome

Foul Is Fair
(*)
Hannah Capin

King and the Dragonflies
(*)
Kacen Callender

Ohana Means Family
(*)
Ilima Loomis

Red Hood
(*)
Elana K. Arnold

Up On Bob
(*)
Mary Sullivan

Hike
(*)
Pete Oswald

We Are Water Protectors
(*)
Carole Lindstrom

A Wish in the Dark
(*)
Christina Soontornvat

Efren Divided
(*)
Ernesto Cisneros

They Went Left
(*)
Monica Hesse

Camp
(*)
L.C. Rosen

Felix Ever After
(*)
Kacen Callender

Dress Coded
(*)
Carrie Firestone

Gimme Everything You Got
(*)
Iva-Marie Palmer

The Voting Booth
(*)
Brandy Colbert

Everything Sad Is Untrue
(*)
Daniel Nayeri

Fighting Words
(*)
Kimberly Brubaker Bradley

Isaiah Dunn is My Hero
(*)
Kelly J. Baptist

Lobizona
(*)
Romina Garber

The Magic in Changing Your Stars
(*)
Leah Henderson

The Ocean Calls
(*)
Tina Cho

The Time of Green Magic
(*)
Hilary McKay

The Barnabus Project
(*)
Terry Fan; Eric Fan

Flamer
(*)
Mike Curato

Fly on the Wall
(*)
Remy Lai

Grown
(*)
Tiffany D. Jackson

I Am Every Good Thing
(*)
Derrick Barnes

If You Come to Earth
(*)
Sophie Blackall

Legendborn
(*)
Tracy Deonn

Lupe Wong Won't Dance
(*)
Donna Barba Higuera

The Paper Boat
(*)
Thao Lam

See the Cat
(*)
David LaRochelle

Skunk and Badger
(*)
Amy Timberlake

Spindlefish and Stars
(*)
Christiane M. Andrews

111 Trees
(*)
Rina Singh

Ana on the Edge
(*)
A.J. Sass

Dear Justyce
(*)
Nic Stone

Dungeon Critters
(*)
Natalie Riess

The Last Mirror on the Left
(*)
Lamar Giles

The Magic Fish
(*)
Trung Le Nguyen

The Puppetmaster's Apprentice
(*)
Lisa DeSelm

Twins
(*)
Varian Johnson

2019

This Was Our Pact
(Top of the List)
Ryan Andrews

Home in The Woods
(Top of the List)
Eliza Wheeler

On the Come Up
(*)
Angie Thomas

The Bell Rang
(*)
James E. Ransome

The Music of What Happens
(*)
Bill Konigsberg

The Runaways
(*)
Ulf Stark

The Storm Keeper's Island
(*)
Catherine Doyle

The Bridge Home
(*)
Padma Venkatraman

Pay Attention, Carter Jones
(*)
Gary D. Schmidt

We Set the Dark on Fire
(*)
Tehlor Kay Mejia

Lovely War
(*)
Julie Berry

Sal and Gabi Break the Universe
(*)
Carlos Hernandez

Sweety
(*)
Andrea Zuill

The True History of Lyndie B. Hawkins
(*)
Gail Shepherd

The Last Last-Day-of-Summer
(*)
Lamar Giles

The Line Tender
(*)
Kate Allen

My Cat Looks Like My Dad
(*)
Thao Lam

Camp Tiger
(*)
Susan Choi

Laura Dean Keeps Breaking Up with Me
(*)
Mariko Tamaki

Let Me Hear a Rhyme
(*)
Tiffany D. Jackson

The Lost Coast
(*)
Amy Rose Capetta

My Papi Has a Motorcycle
(*)
Isabel Quintero

Other Words for Home
(*)
Jasmine Warga

A Place to Belong
(*)
Cynthia Kadohata

We Are the Perfect Girl
(*)
A.E. Kaplan

When Aidan Became a Brother
(*)
Kyle Lukoff

Ordinary Girls
(*)
Blair Thornburgh

This Was Our Pact
(*)
Ryan Andrews

Vroom!
(*)
Barbara McClintock

The Downstairs Girl
(*)
Stacey Lee

For Black Girls Like Me
(*)
Mariama J. Lockington

The Revolution of Birdie Randolph
(*)
Brandy Colbert

Scary Stories for Young Foxes
(*)
Christian McKay Heidicker

Butterfly Yellow
(*)
Thanhha Lai

Indian No More
(*)
Charlene Willing McManis

Lalani of the Distant Sea
(*)
Erin Entrada Kelly

The Proudest Blue
(*)
Ibtihaj Muhammad

Small in the City
(*)
Sydney Smith

Stargazing
(*)
Jen Wang

A Stone Sat Still
(*)
Brendan Wenzel

The Very, Very Far North
(*)
Dan Bar-el

Who Wet My Pants?
(*)
Bob Shea

Fry Bread
(*)
Kevin Noble Maillard

Home in The Woods
(*)
Eliza Wheeler

The Last True Poets of the Sea
(*)
Julia Drake

Look Both Ways
(*)
Jason Reynolds

Pokko and the Drum
(*)
Matthew Forsythe

Thirteen Doorways, Wolves Behind Them All
(*)
Laura Ruby

Pluto Gets the Call
(*)
Adam Rex

2018

Blood Water Paint
(Top of the List)
Joy McCullough

The Apocalypse of Elena Mendoza
(*)
Shaun David Hutchinson

The Belles
(*)
Dhonielle Clayton

The Book of Boy
(*)
Catherine Gilbert Murdock

Checked
(*)
Cynthia Kadohata

Petra
(*)
Marianna Coppo

The Astonishing Color of After
(*)
Emily X.R. Pan

Baby Monkey, Private Eye
(*)
Brian Selznick; David Serlin

A Busy Creature's Day Eating
(*)
Mo Willems

The Serpent's Secret
(*)
Sayantani DasGupta

Tess of the Road
(*)
Rachel Hartman

Alma and How She Got Her Name
(*)
Juana Martinez-Neal

The Island at the End of Everything
(*)
Kiran Millwood Hargrave

Sunny
(*)
Jason Reynolds

Bob
(*)
Wendy Mass; Rebecca Stead

The Boy, the Bird, and the Coffin Maker
(*)
Matilda Woods

Love & Other Carnivorous Plants
(*)
Florence Gonsalves

The Other Ducks
(*)
Ellen Yeomans

Rosetown
(*)
Cynthia Rylant

We'll Fly Away
(*)
Bryan Bliss

What I Leave Behind
(*)
Alison McGhee

Drawn Together
(*)
Minh Le

Front Desk
(*)
Kelly Yang

Wild Blues
(*)
Beth Kephart

The Dinosaur Expert
(*)
Margaret McNamara

The Language of Spells
(*)
Garret Weyr

Finding Langston
(*)
Lesa Cline-Ransome

The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge
(*)
M.T. Anderson

Buried Beneath the Baobab Tree
(*)
Adaobi Tricia Nwaubani

Dreamers
(*)
Yuyi Morales

Interrupting Chicken and the Elephant of Surprise
(*)
David Ezra Stein

Night Job
(*)
Karen Hesse

The Patchwork Bike
(*)
Maxine Beneba Clarke

Damsel
(*)
Elana K. Arnold

I, Claudia
(*)
Mary McCoy

Muse of Nightmares
(*)
Laini Taylor

Potato Pants!
(*)
Laurie Keller

A Very Large Expanse of Sea
(*)
Tahereh Mafi

The Wall in the Middle of the Book
(*)
Jon Agee

You're Snug with Me
(*)
Chitra Soundar

Astrid the Unstoppable
(*)
Maria Parr

2016

Fire Engine No. 9
(*)
Mike Austin

2014

The Lion and the Bird
(*)
Marianne Dubuc

Rain Reign
(*)
Ann M. Martin

2013

Boxers
(*)
Gene Luen Yang

Saints
(*)
Gene Luen Yang

2012

Extra Yarn
(*)
Mac Barnett

The Adventures of Nanny Piggins
(*)
R.A. Spratt

Dodger
(*)
Terry Pratchett

2011

Me... Jane
(*)
Patrick McDonnell

A Monster Calls
(*)
Patrick Ness

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Adult

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Youth

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