Kirkus Best Books of the Year - Middle-Grade Historical Fiction (Awarded by Kirkus)

Awards List

2023

The Lost Year
(*)
Katherine Marsh

World Made of Glass
(*)
Ami Polonsky

The Many Assassinations of Samir, the Seller of Dreams
(*)
Daniel Nayeri

Hope in the Valley
(*)
Mitali Perkins

Farewell Cuba, Mi Isla
(*)
Alexandra Diaz

Remember Us
(*)
Jacqueline Woodson

Shira and Esther's Double Dream Debut
(*)
Anna E. Jordan

The Night Raven
(*)
Johan Rundberg

2022

The Puffin Keeper
(*)
Michael Morpurgo

We Are Wolves
(*)
Katrina Nannestad

Dream, Annie, Dream
(*)
Waka T. Brown

Yonder
(*)
Ali Standish

Coming Up Cuban
(*)
Sonia Manzano

We Were the Fire
(*)
Shelia P. Moses

The Door of No Return
(*)
Kwame Alexander

Different
(*)
Monica Montanes

2021

Barbed Wire Baseball
(*)
Marissa Moss

Voyage of the Sparrowhawk
(*)
Natasha Farrant

Root Magic
(*)
Eden Royce

Amber and Clay
(*)
Laura Amy Schlitz

Dawn Raid
(*)
Pauline Vaeluaga Smith

Soul Lanterns
(*)
Shaw Kuzki

Being Clem
(*)
Lesa Cline-Ransome

Cuba in My Pocket
(*)
Adrianna Cuevas

The Beatryce Prophecy
(*)
Kate DiCamillo

The Swallows' Flight
(*)
Hilary McKay

2020

Village of Scoundrels
(*)
Margi Preus

The Blackbird Girls
(*)
Anne Blankman

Prairie Lotus
(*)
Linda Sue Park

Show Me a Sign
(*)
Ann Clare LeZotte

Echo Mountain
(*)
Lauren Wolk

Lizard's Tale
(*)
Weng Wai Chan

Letters from Cuba
(*)
Ruth Behar

Loretta Little Looks Back
(*)
Andrea Davis Pinkney / Andrea Pinkney

Award Categories

Affirming Picture Books

Bedtime Books

Beginning Readers

Board Books

Book Club Fiction

Books for Beginning Readers

Debut Fiction

Empowering Picture Books

Environmental Fiction

Fiction

Fiction in Translation

Fictional Families

Fictional Voices

Funniest Picture Books

Historical Fiction

Informational Picture Books

Joyous Picture Books

Middle-Grade About Speaking Up

Middle-Grade Activist

Middle-Grade Adventures

Middle-Grade Family Stories

Middle-Grade Fantasy and SF

Middle-Grade Fiction

Middle-Grade Friendship Stories

Middle-Grade Graphic Fiction

Award Years

2023

2022

2021

2020

2019