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Edition 99 (2020)

Children's literature awardEnglish-language children's booksAmerican literature award

Winners

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Jerry Craft Winner

Jordan, a Black boy starting at a private school, navigates microaggressions, pressure to fit in, and the search for belonging in a graphic novel that mixes humor with sharp social observation.

A new school becomes the place where Jordan learns how to belong and how to draw his own life.

256 pages
school liferaceidentitygraphic novelfriendship
Kwame Alexander Nominee

This picture book links Black history and the present in a poem that honors endurance, dignity, and everyday survival.

A quiet but forceful ode to Black life and resilience.

40 pages
Black historypoetrypicture bookhistoryresilience

Young foxes learn fear and survival through linked stories in a middle-grade horror novel that balances menace, humor, and companionship.

Each story makes the need for a place to come home to feel sharper.

313 pages
horrorlinked storiescouragesurvivalfriendship
Jasmine Warga Nominee

Jude, a Syrian girl who moves to the United States, comes to terms with language, culture, and a new life in a verse novel about migration and belonging.

A verse novel about losing home without losing oneself.

352 pages
migrationhomegrowthfamilylanguage

Young foxes learn fear and survival through linked stories in a middle-grade horror novel that balances menace, humor, and companionship.

Each story makes the need for a place to come home to feel sharper.

313 pages
horrorlinked storiescouragesurvivalfriendship