Publishers Weekly Best Books - Middle Grade (Awarded by Publishers Weekly)

Awards List

2023

Simon Sort of Says
(*)
Erin Bow

The Swifts: A Dictionary of Scoundrels
(*)
Beth Lincoln

Bea Wolf
(*)
Zach Weinersmith

The Eyes and the Impossible
(*)
Dave Eggers

The Probability of Everything
(*)
Sarah Everett

Mexikid
(*)
Pedro Martin

The Story of Gumluck the Wizard
(*)
Adam Rex

The Otherwoods
(*)
Justine Pucella Winans

Gone Wolf
(*)
Amber McBride

Jawbreaker
(*)
Christina Wyman

Remember Us
(*)
Jacqueline Woodson

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

Duel
(*)
Jessixa Bagley

2022

Northwind
(*)
Gary Paulsen

The Ogress and the Orphans
(*)
Kelly Barnhill

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

The Last Mapmaker
(*)
Christina Soontornvat

Jennifer Chan Is Not Alone
(*)
Tae Keller

The Patron Thief of Bread
(*)
Lindsay Eagar

Twin Cities
(*)
Jose Pimienta

Alte Zachen / Old Things
(*)
Ziggy Hanaor

Black Bird, Blue Road
(*)
Sofiya Pasternack

Serwa Boateng's Guide to Vampire Hunting
(*)
Roseanne Brown

You Only Live Once, David Bravo
(*)
Mark Oshiro

The Door of No Return
(*)
Kwame Alexander

Freestyle
(*)
Gale Galligan

Frizzy
(*)
Claribel A. Ortega

A Rover's Story
(*)
Jasmine Warga

2021

Katie the Catsitter
(*)
Colleen A.F. Venable

The Raconteur's Commonplace Book
(*)
Kate Milford

Starfish
(*)
Lisa Fipps

How to Become a Planet
(*)
Nicole Melleby

Sisters of the Neversea
(*)
Cynthia Leitich Smith

Samira Surfs
(*)
Rukhsanna Guidroz

Black Boy Joy
(*)
Kwame Mbalia

The Insiders
(*)
Mark Oshiro

The Beatryce Prophecy
(*)
Kate DiCamillo

The Last Cuentista
(*)
Donna Barba Higuera

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

Stuntboy, in the Meantime
(*)
Jason Reynolds

2020

King and the Dragonflies
(*)
Kacen Callender

Snapdragon
(*)
Kat Leyh

When You Trap a Tiger
(*)
Tae Keller

Mananaland
(*)
Pam Munoz Ryan

Daring Darleen, Queen of the Screen
(*)
Anne Nesbet

Echo Mountain
(*)
Lauren Wolk

The List of Things That Will Not Change
(*)
Rebecca Stead

When Stars Are Scattered
(*)
Victoria Jamieson; Omar Mohamed

Ways to Make Sunshine
(*)
Renee Watson

Fighting Words
(*)
Kimberly Brubaker Bradley

Skunk and Badger
(*)
Amy Timberlake

Becoming Muhammad Ali
(*)
James Patterson; Kwame Alexander

Class Act
(*)
Jerry Craft

2019

The Lost Girl
(*)
Anne Ursu

New Kid
(*)
Jerry Craft

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

Sal and Gabi Break the Universe
(*)
Carlos Hernandez

The Line Tender
(*)
Kate Allen

The Next Great Paulie Fink
(*)
Ali Benjamin

The Strangers
(*)
Margaret Peterson Haddix

Dream Within a Dream
(*)
Patricia MacLachlan

Other Words for Home
(*)
Jasmine Warga

All the Greys on Greene Street
(*)
Laura Tucker

Queen of the Sea
(*)
Dylan Meconis

This Was Our Pact
(*)
Ryan Andrews

My Jasper June
(*)
Laurel Snyder

Look Both Ways
(*)
Jason Reynolds

Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky
(*)
Kwame Mbalia

2018

The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle
(*)
Leslie Connor

The Parker Inheritance
(*)
Varian Johnson

Amal Unbound
(*)
Aisha Saeed

Front Desk
(*)
Kelly Yang

Dactyl Hill Squad
(*)
Daniel Jose Older

Merci Suarez Changes Gears
(*)
Meg Medina

Small Spaces
(*)
Katherine Arden

Sweep: The Story of a Girl and Her Monster
(*)
Jonathan Auxier

We Rise, We Resist, We Raise Our Voices
(*)
Wade Hudson

Sanity & Tallulah
(*)
Molly Brooks

It Wasn't Me
(*)
Dana Alison Levy

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Award Years

2023

2022

2021

2020

2019

2018