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Winner:
All the blues in the sky by Renée Watson
Newbery Honor Books:
The nine moons of Han Yu and Luli by Karina Yan Glaser / A Sea of Lemon Trees by María Dolores Águila / The Teacher of Nomad Land by Daniel Nayeri / The Undead Fox of Deadwood Forest by Aubrey Hartman
Winner:
Fireworks, illustrated by Cátia Chien, written by Matthew Burgess
Caldecott Honor Books:
Every Monday Mabel by Jashar Awan / Our Lake by Angie Kang / Stalactite and Stalagmite : a big tale from a little cave by Drew Beckmeyer / Sundust by Zeke Peña
King Author Award Book:
Will’s Race for Home by Jewell Parker Rhodes
King Author Honor Books:
The Incredibly Human Henson Blayze by Derrick Barnes / The Library in the Woods by Calvin Alexander Ramsey, illustrated by R. Gregory Christie /Split the Sky by Marie Arnold
King Illustrator Award Book
The Library in the Woods by Calvin Alexander Ramsey, illustrated by R. Gregory Christie
King Illustrator Honor Books:
André :André Leon Talley-a fabulously fashionable fairy tale, illustrated by Lamont O’Neal / City summer, country summer, illustrated by Alexis Franklin
Coretta Scott King/John Steptoe New Talent Author Award
Under the Neon Lights by Arriel Vinson
Coretta Scott King – Virginia Hamilton Award for Lifetime Achievement
Winner:
Legendary frybread drive-in : intertribal stories, edited by Cynthia Leitich Smith
Printz Honor Books:
Cope Field by T.L. Simpson /The House That No One Sees by Adina King /Sisters in the Wind by Angeline Boulley / Song of a Blackbird by Maria van Lieshout
Schneider Younger Children’s Award:
Wanda Hears the Stars: A Blind Astronomer Listens to the Universe by Amy S. Hansen with Wanda Díaz Merced
Schneider Younger Children Honor Books:
Bat and the Business of Ferrets by Elana K. Arnold / I hear the snow, I feel the sea by Janice Milusich
Schneider Middle Grade Award:
Where only storms grow by Alyssa Colman
Schneider Middle Grade Honor Books:
Octopus moon by Bobbie Pyron / The Strongest Heart by Saadia Faruqi
Schneider Young Adult Award:
Whale eyes : a memoir about seeing and being seen by James Robinson
Schneider Young Adult Honor Books:
The Golden Boy’s Guide to Bipolar by Sonora Reyes / The Poetry of Car Mechanics by Heidi E.Y. Stemple
Winner:
Croco by Azul López
Batchelder Honor Books:
The Adventures of Cipollino by Gianni Rodari, illustrated by Dasha Tolstikova / From Memen to Mori by Shinsuke Yoshitake / Picking Tea with Baba by Xu Bin, illustrated by Yu Yin / Pilgrim Codex by Vivian Mansour, illustrated by Emmanuel Valtierra
Odyssey Award for Children:
Clack, Clack! Smack! A Cherokee Stickball Story by Traci Sorell
Odyssey Award for Young Adults:
Trans History: From Ancient Times to the Present Day by Alex L. Combs
Odyssey Honor Audiobooks:
The Dead of Summer by Ryan La Sala / Legendary Frybread Drive-In: Intertribal Stories edited by Cynthia Leitich Smith / Soundtrack by Jason Reynolds / Whale Eyes: A Memoir About Seeing and Being Seen by James Robinson
Youth Illustrator Award:
Popo the Xolo, illustrated by Abraham Matia
Honor Books:
A-Ztec: A Bilingual Alphabet Book, illustrated and written by Emmanuel Valtierra / The Invisible Parade, illustrated by John Picacio
Children’s Author Award:
The Pecan Sheller by Lupe Ruiz-Flores
Children’s Author Honor Books:
A Hero’s Guide to summer Vacation by Pablo Cartaya / The Island of Forgotten Gods by Victor Piñeiro / A Sea of Lemon Trees by María Dolores Águila
Young Adult Author Award:
On the Wings of la Noche by Vanessa L. Torres
Young Adult Author Honor Books:
Rosa by Any Other Name by Hailey Alcaraz / Silenced Voices by Pablo Leon / The Story of My Anger by Jasminne Mendez
Winner:
Alberto Salas Plays Paka Paka con la Papa by Sara Andrea Fajardo
Sibert Honor Books:
At Last She Stood: How Joey Guerrero Spied, Survived, and Fought for Freedom by Erin Entrada Kelly / Go Tell It: How James Baldwin Became a Writer by Quartez Harris, illustrated by Gordon C. James / The History of We by Nikkolas Smith / Silenced Voices by Pablo Leon/ A World Without Summer: A Volcano Erupts, A Creature Awakens, and the Sun Goes Out by Nicholas Day, illustrated by Yas Imamura
Mike Morgan & Larry Romans Children’s Literature Award:
Halfway to Somewhere by Jose Pimienta
Stonewall Honor Books for Children’s Literature:
Call Me Gray by Andrew Larsen and Bells Larsen / The Ink Witch by Steph Cherrywell /Ollie in Between by Jess Callans / Woods & Words :the story of poet Mary Oliver by by Sara Holly Ackerman ; illustrated by Naoko Stoop
Mike Morgan & Larry Romans Young Adult Literature Award:
One of the boys by Victoria Zeller
Stonewall Honor Books for Young Adult Literature:
Devils Like Us by L. T. Thompson / He’s so possessed with me by Corey Liu / Hick: The Trailblazing Journalist Who Captured Eleanor Roosevelt’s Heart by Sarah Miller / Sometimes the Girl by Jennifer Mason-Black
Winner:
Stop that mop! by Jonathan Fenske
Geisel Honor Books:
The Big Mess and Other Stories by Greg Pizzoli / The Tunneler Tunnels in the Tunnel by Michael Rex
All the Noise at Once by DeAndra Davis
William C. Morris Award Finalists
First love language by Stefany Valentine/ Love, Misha by Askel Aden/ Red Flags and Butterflies by Sheryl Azzam/You and Me on Repeat by Mary Shyne
Winner:
Death in the jungle : murder, betrayal, and the lost dream of Jonestown by Candace Fleming
Award for Excellence in Nonfiction for Young Adults Finalists
American spirits : the famous Fox sisters and the mysterious fad that haunted a nation by Barb Rosenstock/ White House Secrets: Medical Lies and Cover-Ups by Gail Jarrow/ White Lies: How the South Lost the Civil War, then Rewrote the History by Ann Bausum/ A World Without Summer: A Volcano Erupts, A Creature Awakens, and the Sun Goes Out by Nicholas Day, illustrated by Yas Imamura
Best Picture Book:
Chooch Helped by Andrea L. Rogers ; illustrated by Rebecca Lee Kunz
Picture Book Honor Books:
Braided roots by Pasha Westbrook ; illustrated by Madelyn Goodnight / Fierce Aunties! by Laurel Goodluck, illustrated by Steph Littlebird / For a Girl Becoming by Joy Harjo ; illustrated by Adriana Garcia/ Raven’s Ribbons by Tasha Spillett, illustrated by Daniel Ramirez / We Weave by Daniel W. Vandever, illustrated by Deonoveigh Mitchell
Best Middle Grade Book:
Buffalo Dreamer by Violet Duncan
Middle Grade Honor Books:
Jo Jo Makoons: The Super-Scary Sleepover by Dawn Quigley, illustrated by Tara Audibert / Lost at Windy River by Trina Rathgeber / Outfoxed by Elise McMullen-Ciotti /Red Bird danced by Dawn Quigley / The Ribbon Skirt by Cameron Mukwa
Best Young Adult Book:
Legendary frybread drive-in : intertribal stories, edited by Cynthia Leitich Smith
Young Adult Honor Books:
Sheine Lende by Darcie Little Badger / Sisters in the Wind by Angeline Boulley / Super Indian, Volume Three by Arigon Starr / The Unfinished by Cheryl Isaacs / Where Wolves Don’t Die by Anton Treuer
Pasifika Picture Book:
Honor Titles for Pasifika Picture Book:
Filo’s Butterflies by Litea Fuata, illustrated by Myo Yim / White Sunday by Litea Fuata, illustrated by Myo Yim
Asian American Picture Book:
Many Things at Once by Veera Hiranandani ; illustrated by Nadia Alam
Honor Titles for Asian American Picture Book:
Every Peach Is a Story by David Mas Masumoto and Nikiko Masumoto, illustrated by Lauren Tamaki / A Vaisakhi to Remember by Simran Jeet Singh ; illustrated by Japneet Kaur
Asian/Pacific American Award for Children’s Literature:
Honor Title for Children’s Literature:
The Queen Bees of Tybee County by Kyle Casey Chu / Fresh Start by Gale Galligan
Asian/Pacific American Award for Young Adult Literature:
The Red Car to Hollywood by Jennie Liu
Honor Title for Young Adult Literature:
Tall Water by SJ Sindu ; Dion MBD
Gold Medalist for Picture Book:
Shabbat Shalom: Let’s Rest and Reset by Suzy Ultman
Silver Medalists for Picture Book:
The book of candles : eight poems for Hanukkah by Laurel Snyder ; illustrated by Leanne Hatch / The Keeper of Stories by Caroline Kusin Pritchard / My Body Can by Laura Gehl, illustrated by Alexandra Colombo
Gold Medalist for Middle Grade Book:
Silver Medalist for Middle Grade Book:
Beinoni by Mari Lowe
Gold Medalist for Young Adult Book:
D.J. Rosenblum becomes the G.O.A.T.* by Abby White
Silver Medalist for Young Adult Book:\
The Rebel Girls of Rome by Jordyn Taylor
Sydney Taylor Body-of-Work Award
It’s a new year, so we have new reading challenges! Take a look at the challenges below! You can download them or pick up a paper copy at the library.

For this challenge, we challenge you to read a book based on different prompts! This challenge is also available on Beanstack.

If you like to read Young Adult books, this challenge is for you! See if you can get a Bingo!


Do you have a favorite genre? Then challenge yourself to read the most popular books of your favorite genre! Each bookmark has the top checked out books from 2025.
| Better in Black: Ten Stories of Shadowhunter Romance (unabridged) | Cassandra Clare, Elizabeth Knowelden, Ellie Gossage, et. al. | Audiobook |
| I Know This Much Is True | Wally Lamb, Ken Howard | Audiobook |
| Lights Out | Navessa Allen, Elena Wolfe, Jacob Morgan | Audiobook |
| The Orville: Sympathy for the Devil: Sympathy for the Devil (unabridged) | Seth MacFarlane, Bruce Boxleitner | Audiobook |
| The Passing Playbook | Isaac Fitzsimons, Jamie K. Brown | Audiobook |
| Queen Esther | John Irving, Ari Fliakos | Audiobook |
| Seven All Alone | Kirsty McKay, Elle Newlands | Audiobook |
| Theo of Golden: A Novel (unabridged) | Allen Levi | Audiobook |
| Twisted Holiday Plans | Matthew W. Grant, Kirk Hall | Audiobook |
| We Are All Guilty Here | Karin Slaughter, Kathleen Early | Audiobook |
| Better in Black: Ten Stories of Shadowhunter Romance | Cassandra Clare | eBook |
| Gone Before Goodbye | Harlan Coben, Reese Witherspoon | eBook |
| The Greek Revolution and the Violent Birth of Nationalism | Yanni Kotsonis | eBook |
| Little Fish | Casey Plett | eBook |
| Seven All Alone | Kirsty McKay | eBook |
| Twisted Holiday Plans: Holiday Crime Short Story, #2 | Matthew W. Grant | eBook |