Awards search:School Library Journal Best Book of the Year

Merci Suárez Changes Gears

by Meg Medina
Hardcover, 2018
Tags
LATINX, WOMEN AND GIRLS, FAMILIES, grandparents, grades 4 - 7, FICTION, MIDDLE GRADES
Series
Merci Suárez (1)
Barcode
741
Status
Available
Call number
813.6

My Name Is Yoon

by Helen Recorvits
Paperback, 2014
Tags
CULTURES AND TRADITIONS, REFUGEES AND IMMIGRANTS, WOMEN AND GIRLS, Friendship, PICTURE BOOK, grades k - 2, ASIAN ASIAN-AMERICAN AND PACIFIC ISLANDER, Korea
Series
Yoon
Barcode
726
Status
Available
Call number
813.54

Ghost (Track)

by Jason Reynolds
Hardcover, 2017
Tags
Diverse characters, hopelessness, middle school, bullying, class structure, 10 and up, FICTION, AFRICAN AND AFRICAN AMERICAN, FAMILIES, MIDDLE GRADES
Series
Track Series (1)
Barcode
841
Status
Available
Call number
813.6

The Serpent's Secret (Kiranmala and the Kingdom Beyond #1)

by Sayantani DasGupta
Paperback, 2019
Tags
WOMEN AND GIRLS, REFUGEES AND IMMIGRANTS, CULTURES AND TRADITIONS, fantasy, JUVENILE, indian-american, ASIAN ASIAN-AMERICAN AND PACIFIC ISLANDER, 8 and up, MIDDLE GRADES, series, FICTION
Series
Kiranmala and the Kingdom Beyond (1)
Barcode
1141
Status
Available
Call number
813.6

Home of the Brave

by Katherine Applegate
Paperback, 2008
Tags
REFUGEES AND IMMIGRANTS, MIDDLE GRADES, Sudan, AFRICAN AND AFRICAN AMERICAN, Africa, verse, FAMILIES, 9 - 11 years
Barcode
941
Status
Available
Call number
813.54

Hush

by Woodson
Paperback, 2002
Tags
AFRICAN AND AFRICAN AMERICAN, WOMEN AND GIRLS, JUSTICE, police brutality, FICTION, TEEN, 12 and up
Barcode
892
Status
Available
Call number
813

It Feels Good to Be Yourself: A Book About Gender Identity

by Theresa Thorn
Hardcover, 2019
Tags
GENDER, LGBTQIA, PICTURE BOOK, gender identity, nonbinary, 4 - 8 years
Barcode
923
Status
Available
Call number
305.3

Mommy's Khimar

by Jamilah Thompkins-Bigelow
Hardcover, 2018
Tags
WOMEN AND GIRLS, CULTURES AND TRADITIONS, RELIGION, PICTURE BOOK, 4 - 8 years, Muslim, Islam
Barcode
1222
Status
Available
Call number
791.43

A Good Kind of Trouble

by Lisa Moore Ramée
Hardcover, 2019
Tags
WOMEN AND GIRLS, AFRICAN AND AFRICAN AMERICAN, JUSTICE, MIDDLE GRADES, 8 - 12 years, black lives matter
Barcode
1154
Status
Available
Call number
813.6

Knight of the Cape (1) (Definitely Dominguita)

by Terry Catasus Jennings
Paperback, 2021
Tags
WOMEN AND GIRLS, LATINX, BODIES AND ABILITIES, JUVENILE, Cuban-American, dementia
Series
Definitely Dominguita (1)
Barcode
1757
Status
Available
Call number
813.6

Facing Frederick: The Life of Frederick Douglass, a Monumental American Man

by Tonya Bolden
Paperback, 2020
Tags
AFRICAN AND AFRICAN AMERICAN, JUSTICE, MIDDLE GRADES, biography, slavery, enslavement, Kirkus Starred Review
Barcode
1642
Status
Available
Call number
973.8092

Overground Railroad (The Young Adult Adaptation): The Green Book and the Roots of Black Travel in America

by Candacy Taylor
Hardcover, 2022
Tags
AFRICAN AND AFRICAN AMERICAN, JUSTICE, TEEN, history, civil rights, NON-FICTION, Segregation, travel, Kirkus Starred Review
Barcode
1586
Status
Available
Call number
305.800973

Too Bright to See

by Kyle Lukoff
Hardcover, 2021
Tags
JUVENILE, LGBTQIA, GENDER, transgender, coming out, gender identity, Kirkus Starred Review, Stonewall Book Award, MIDDLE GRADES
Barcode
1587
Status
Available
Call number
813.6

Watercress

by Andrea Wang
Hardcover, 2021
Tags
ASIAN ASIAN-AMERICAN AND PACIFIC ISLANDER, CULTURES AND TRADITIONS, PICTURE BOOK, FAMILIES, Chinese-American, loss of sibling, Kirkus Starred Review, REFUGEES AND IMMIGRANTS, WOMEN AND GIRLS
Barcode
1612
Status
Available
Call number
813.6

Your Mama

by NoNieqa Ramos
Hardcover, 2021
Tags
PICTURE BOOK, WOMEN AND GIRLS, LATINX, motherhood, Kirkus Starred Review, AFRICAN AND AFRICAN AMERICAN
Barcode
1623
Status
Available
Call number
813.6

The Important Thing About Margaret Wise Brown

by Mac Barnett
Hardcover, 2019
Tags
WOMEN AND GIRLS, LGBTQIA, PICTURE BOOK, biography, author, writer, pioneer, Kirkus Starred Review, bisexuality
Barcode
1627
Status
Available
Call number
813.52

My Two Border Towns

by David Bowles
Hardcover, 2021
Tags
REFUGEES AND IMMIGRANTS, LATINX, JUSTICE, PICTURE BOOK, Kirkus Starred Review, sharing, caring, helping, bilingual
Barcode
1712
Status
Available
Call number
813.6

Mirror Season

by Anna-Marie Mclemore
Paperback, 2022
Tags
WOMEN AND GIRLS, LATINX, LGBTQIA, TEEN, sexual assault, consent, speaking out
Barcode
1720
Status
Available
Call number
813.6

Last Night at the Telegraph Club

by Malinda Lo
Hardcover, 2021
Tags
LGBTQIA, ASIAN ASIAN-AMERICAN AND PACIFIC ISLANDER, WOMEN AND GIRLS, TEEN, historical fiction, Kirkus Starred Review, San Francisco, racism, prejudice
Barcode
1729
Status
Available
Call number
813.6

The Hello, Goodbye Window

by Norton Juster
Hardcover, 2005
Tags
FAMILIES, DIVERSITY, AFRICAN AND AFRICAN AMERICAN, PICTURE BOOK, interracial family, grandparents
Series
Hello, Goodbye Window (1)
Barcode
1740
Status
Available
Call number
306.85

Root Magic

by Eden Royce
Paperback, 2022
Tags
AFRICAN AND AFRICAN AMERICAN, CULTURES AND TRADITIONS, FAMILIES, MIDDLE GRADES, Gullah, coming of age, Segregation, Kirkus Starred Review, twins
Barcode
1644
Status
Available
Call number
813.6

We Are Not from Here

by Jenny Torres Sanchez
Paperback, 2021
Tags
REFUGEES AND IMMIGRANTS, LATINX, TEEN, undocumented immigrants, Guatemala, Kirkus Starred Review
Barcode
1795
Status
Available
Call number
813.6

The Book Thief

by Markus Zusak
Paperback, 2007
Tags
WOMEN AND GIRLS, CULTURES AND TRADITIONS, TEEN, historical fiction, Holocaust, Germany, loss
Barcode
1527
Status
Available
Call number
823.92

Our Skin: A First Conversation About Race (First Conversations)

by Megan Madison
Board book, 2021
Tags
JUSTICE, DIVERSITY, BOARD BOOK, racism, skin color, anti-racism, Kirkus Starred Review
Series
First Conversations
Barcode
1637
Status
Available
Call number
305.8

Our Skin: A First Conversation About Race (First Conversations)

by Megan Madison
Board book, 2021
Tags
JUSTICE, DIVERSITY, BOARD BOOK, racism, skin color, anti-racism, Kirkus Starred Review
Series
First Conversations
Barcode
1756
Status
Available
Call number
305.8

Harbor Me

by Jacqueline Woodson
Hardcover, 2018
Tags
REFUGEES AND IMMIGRANTS, DIVERSITY, FAMILIES, incarcerated parent, AFRICAN AND AFRICAN AMERICAN, LATINX, WOMEN AND GIRLS, 10 - 14 years, MIDDLE GRADES, Kirkus Starred Review
Barcode
1824
Status
Available
Call number
813.54

Finding My Dance

by Ria Thundercloud
Hardcover, 2022
Tags
NATIVE NATIONS AND INDIGENOUS PEOPLES, CULTURES AND TRADITIONS, WOMEN AND GIRLS, PICTURE BOOK, Native author, biography, dance, jingle dance, pow wow, Ho-Chunk, Sandia Pueblo
Barcode
1831
Status
Available
Call number
305.897

If You Lived During the Plimoth Thanksgiving (If You)

by Chris Newell
Paperback, 2021
Tags
NATIVE NATIONS AND INDIGENOUS PEOPLES, JUVENILE, MIDDLE GRADES, history, American History, Native American, Thanksgiving
Barcode
1813
Status
Available
Call number
974.4

Black Boy Joy: 17 Stories Celebrating Black Boyhood

by Kwame Mbalia Editor
Hardcover, 2021
Tags
AFRICAN AND AFRICAN AMERICAN, MIDDLE GRADES, Short stories, boyhood, masculinity, self-esteem, Kirkus Starred Review
Barcode
1640
Status
Available
Call number
813.0080896073

Stamped (For Kids): Racism, Antiracism, and You

by Jason Reynolds
Hardcover, 2021
Tags
AFRICAN AND AFRICAN AMERICAN, JUSTICE, MIDDLE GRADES, racism, anti-racism, history, American History, black history, Kirkus Starred Review
Barcode
1670
Status
Available
Call number
305.800973

Disability Visibility (Adapted for Young Adults): 17 First-Person Stories for Today

by Alice Wong Editor
Hardcover, 2021
Tags
BODIES AND ABILITIES, DIVERSITY, CULTURES AND TRADITIONS, RELIGION, GENDER, LGBTQIA, ASIAN ASIAN-AMERICAN AND PACIFIC ISLANDER, AFRICAN AND AFRICAN AMERICAN, MIDDLE GRADES, TEEN, NONFICTION — 18 more, Kirkus Starred Review, cerebral palsy, facial difference, nystagmus, deaf, incarceration, institutionalization, intellectual disability, blindness, deafblind, multiple sclerosis, wheelchair, incontinence, spina bifida, bipolar, assistive technology, dwarfism, lyme disease
Barcode
1646
Status
Available
Call number
305.9

From a Whisper to a Rallying Cry: The Killing of Vincent Chin and the Trial that Galvanized the Asian American Movement

by Paula Yoo
Hardcover, 2021
Tags
JUSTICE, ASIAN ASIAN-AMERICAN AND PACIFIC ISLANDER, TEEN, NONFICTION, civil rights, violence, court case, Kirkus Starred Review
Barcode
1753
Status
Available
Call number
305.895

Gender Queer: A Memoir

by Maia Kobabe
Paperback, 2019
Tags
GENDER, LGBTQIA, TEEN, NON-FICTION, memoir, graphic memoir, gender identity, coming out, nonbinary, Asexual, Stonewall Honor Book
Barcode
1844
Status
Available
Call number
741.5

Buffalo Bird Girl: A Hidatsa Story

by S. D. Nelson
Paperback, 2015
Tags
NATIVE NATIONS AND INDIGENOUS PEOPLES, WOMEN AND GIRLS, CULTURES AND TRADITIONS, Hidatsa, Native author, own voices, reservation, history, JUVENILE, MIDDLE GRADES
Barcode
1566
Status
Available
Call number
978.4004

Once Upon an Eid: Stories of Hope and Joy by 15 Muslim Voices

by S. K. Ali Editor
Paperback, 2021
Tags
MIDDLE GRADES, RELIGION, Eid, Mulsim, Islam, joy, sharing, anthology, Kirkus Starred Review
Barcode
1523
Status
Available
Call number
297.3

Birdsong

by Julie Flett
Hardcover, 2019
Tags
CULTURES AND TRADITIONS, WOMEN AND GIRLS, PICTURE BOOK, 4 - 8 years, Native American, NATIVE NATIONS AND INDIGENOUS PEOPLES, own voices, Cree
Barcode
1191
Status
Available
Call number
813.6

March: Book Three

by John Lewis
Paperback, 2016
Tags
TEEN, civil rights, JUSTICE, John Lewis, Segregation, Martin Luther King Jr., graphic novel, AFRICAN AND AFRICAN AMERICAN, Selma, ADULT
Series
March (3)
Barcode
1326
Status
Available
Call number
741.5

A Big Mooncake for Little Star

by Grace Lin
Hardcover, 2018
Tags
CULTURES AND TRADITIONS, ASIAN ASIAN-AMERICAN AND PACIFIC ISLANDER, holidays, Chinese, Moon Festival, own voices, WOMEN AND GIRLS, Kirkus Starred Review, PICTURE BOOK
Barcode
1231
Status
Available
Call number
813

All Because You Matter

by Tami Charles
Hardcover, 2020
Tags
AFRICAN AND AFRICAN AMERICAN, JUSTICE, PICTURE BOOK, 4 - 8 years, black lives matter, own voices, Kirkus Starred Review
Barcode
1250
Status
Available
Call number
155.45

We Are Water Protectors

by Carole Lindstrom
Hardcover, 2020
Tags
CULTURES AND TRADITIONS, JUSTICE, PICTURE BOOK, 4 - 8 years, Native American, NATIVE NATIONS AND INDIGENOUS PEOPLES, Native author, own voices, environmentalism, environmental justice, Kirkus Starred Review
Barcode
1249
Status
Available
Call number
813.6

Hot Day on Abbott Avenue

by Karen English
Paperback, 2019
Tags
AFRICAN AND AFRICAN AMERICAN, WOMEN AND GIRLS, PICTURE BOOK, 4 - 8 years, own voices, Friendship
Barcode
1251
Status
Available
Call number
813.6

Magnificent Homespun Brown: A Celebration

by Samara Cole Doyon
Hardcover, 2020
Tags
AFRICAN AND AFRICAN AMERICAN, WOMEN AND GIRLS, PICTURE BOOK, 6 - 12 years, self-esteem, own voices, JUVENILE
Barcode
1267
Status
Available
Call number
791.43

Thank You, Omu!

by Oge Mora
Hardcover, 2018
Tags
AFRICAN AND AFRICAN AMERICAN, PICTURE BOOK, 4 - 8 years, gratitude, food, own voices
Barcode
1266
Status
Available
Call number
813.6

Drawn Together

by Minh Lê
Hardcover, 2018
Tags
FAMILIES, CULTURES AND TRADITIONS, ASIAN ASIAN-AMERICAN AND PACIFIC ISLANDER, PICTURE BOOK, 4 - 8 years, own voices, Vietnamese, art, artist, illustration, grandparents — 2 more, connection, Kirkus Starred Review
Barcode
1275
Status
Available
Call number
813.6

Aru Shah and the End of Time (A Pandava Novel Book 1) (Pandava Series, 1)

by Roshani Chokshi
Paperback, 2019
Tags
WOMEN AND GIRLS, CULTURES AND TRADITIONS, MIDDLE GRADES, 8 - 12 years, India, ASIAN ASIAN-AMERICAN AND PACIFIC ISLANDER, RELIGION, Hinduism
Series
The Pandava Quintet (1)
Barcode
1278
Status
Available
Call number
813.6

Woke: A Young Poet's Call to Justice

by Mahogany L. Browne
Hardcover, 2020
Tags
AFRICAN AND AFRICAN AMERICAN, JUSTICE, poetry, identity, MIDDLE GRADES, REFUGEES AND IMMIGRANTS, BODIES AND ABILITIES, DIVERSITY, GENDER, JUVENILE
Barcode
1286
Status
Available
Call number
811.6

March: Book One

by John Lewis
Paperback, 2013
Tags
TEEN, civil rights, JUSTICE, John Lewis, Segregation, Martin Luther King Jr., graphic novel, AFRICAN AND AFRICAN AMERICAN, Kirkus Starred Review, ADULT
Series
March (1)
Barcode
1324
Status
Available
Call number
741.5

When the Sea Turned to Silver

by Grace Lin
Paperback, 2017
Tags
CULTURES AND TRADITIONS, ASIAN ASIAN-AMERICAN AND PACIFIC ISLANDER, Chinese, own voices, MIDDLE GRADES, 8 - 12 years, WOMEN AND GIRLS, JUVENILE
Series
Where The Mountain Meets the Moon (Book 3)
Barcode
1316
Status
Available
Call number
813.6

Saturday

by Oge Mora Artist
Hardcover, 2019
Tags
AFRICAN AND AFRICAN AMERICAN, WOMEN AND GIRLS, FAMILIES, PICTURE BOOK, Kirkus Starred Review
Barcode
1496
Status
Available
Call number
813.6

We Are Still Here!: Native American Truths Everyone Should Know

by Traci Sorell
Hardcover, 2021
Tags
CULTURES AND TRADITIONS, JUSTICE, PICTURE BOOK, JUVENILE, 7 - 10 years, Native American, NATIVE NATIONS AND INDIGENOUS PEOPLES, Native author, own voices, history, NON-FICTION — 2 more, indigenous, colonization
Barcode
1342
Status
Available
Call number
973.04
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