New Kid by Jerry Craft (Newbery Medal, Coretta Scott King Book Award)
Sal and Gabi Break the Universe by Carlos Hernandez (Pura Belpré Award)
Song for a Whale by Lynne Kelly (Schneider Family Book Award)
Dig by A.S. King (Printz Award)
Free Lunch by Rex Ogle (YALSA Award for Excellence in Nonfiction)
White Bird by R.J. Palacio (Sydney Taylor Book Award)
They Called Us Enemy by George Takei (Asian/Pacific American Award for Literature, Young Adult)
Stargazing by Jen Wang (Asian/Pacific American Award for Literature, Children’s Literature)
Genesis Begins Again by Alicia D. Williams (Coretta Scott King/John Steptoe Award for New Talent)
The Bridge Home by Padma Venkatraman (Walter Dean Myers Award)
The Poet X by Elizabeth Acevedo (National Book Award, Printz Award, Pura Belpré Award, and Walter Dean Myers Award)
The Girl Who Drank the Moon by Kelly Barnhill (2016 Newbery Medal)
The Unwanted by Don Brown (YALSA Award for Excellence in Nonfiction)
A Few Red Drops by Claire Hartfield (Coretta Scott King Award)
Monster by Walter Dean Myers (2000 Printz Award)
Darius the Great is Not Okay by Adib Khorram (William C. Morris YA Debut Award)
Merci Suárez Changes Gears by Meg Medina (Newbery Medal)
Long Way Down by Jason Reynolds (2018 Walter Dean Myers Award)
Ghost Boys by Jewell Parker Rhodes (Walter Dean Myers Award)
Esperanza Rising by Pamela Muñoz Ryan (2002 Pura Belpré Award)
Brown Girl Dreaming by Jacqueline Woodson (2014 National Book Award)
Children of Blood and Bone by Tomi Adeyemi
Internment by Samira Ahmed
Shout by Laurie Halse Anderson
Aru Shah and the End of Time by Roshani Chokshi
Here to Stay by Sara Farizan
Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky by Kwame Mbalia
Look Both Ways by Jason Reynolds
Race to the Sun by Rachel Roanhorse
Clean Getaway by Nic Stone
Front Desk by Kelly Yang
March Forward, Girl by Melba Pattillo Beals
A Walk in the Woods by Bill Bryson
Amelia Lost by Candace Fleming
Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell
Sapiens – A Brief History of Humankind by Yuval Noah Harari
The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind by William Kamkwamba
Long Walk to Freedom by Nelson Mandela
The Gene by Siddhartha Mukherjee
Born a Crime by Trevor Noah
Astronauts by Jim Ottaviani and Maris Wicks
Americanized by Sara Saedi
Just Mercy by Bryan Stevenson
I Am Malala by Malala Yousafzai
This Was Our Pact by Ryan Andrews
El Deafo by Cece Bell
Awkward by Svetlana Chmakova
Roller Girl by Victoria Jamieson
March by John Lewis
Snapdragon by Kat Leyh
Drama by Raina Telgemeier
Guts by Raina Telgemeier
Smile by Raina Telgemeier
American Born Chinese by Gene Luen Yang
* These award winning books contain a range of themes, with some suitable for older children and young adults only. Parental discretion is advised to make sure the content is suitable for your child.
