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Award Winners
Book Awards for Young Adults
MICHAEL PRINTZ AWARD, best book written for teens
Click here to learn more about the 2023 Printz winner and honor books!
The Collectors: Stories by A.S. King
REBECCA CAUDILL AWARD, Grades 4-8
The Inheritance Games by Jennifer Lynn Barnes
Falling Short by Ernesto Cisneros
Starfish by Lisa Fipps
Charlie Thorne and the Last Equation by Stuart Gibbs
A Duet for Home by Karina Yan Glaser
Alias Anna: A True Story of Outwitting the Nazis by Susan Hood & Greg Dawson
The Fort by Gordon Korman
Hummingbird by Natalie Lloyd
The Lost Year by Katherine Marsh
A Kind of Spark by Elle McNicoll
How to Become a Planet by Nicole Melleby
Muhammad Najem, War Reporter by Muhammad Najem
Lasagna Means I Love You by Kate O’Shaughnessy
Frizzy by Claribel A. Ortega
Seen and Unseen: What Dorthea Lange, Toyo Miyatake, and Ansel Adams’s Photographs Reveal About the Japanese American Incarceration by Elizabeth Partridge and Lauren Tamaki
A First Time for Everything by Dan Santat
The Golden Hour by Niki Smith
Victory. Stand! Raising My Fist for Justice by Tommie Smith
The Tryout by Christina Soontornvat & Joanna Cacao
A Rover’s Story by Jasmine Warga
ABRAHAM LINCOLN AWARD, Grades 9-12
Hollow Fires by Samira Ahmed
Love in English by Maria E. Andreu
All That’s Left in the World by Erik J. Brown
Dear Medusa by Olivia A. Cole
The Getaway by Lamar Giles
Belladonna by Adalyn Grace
We Deserve Monuments by Jas Hammonds
Cracking the Bell by Geoff Herbach
Star Splitter by Matthew J. Kirby
Six Crimson Cranes by Elizabeth Lim
Skyhunter by Marie Lu
More Than Just a Pretty Face by Syed M. Masood
We Are All So Good at Smiling by Amber McBride
I’m Glad My Mom Died by Jennette McCurdy
The Princess and the Grilled Cheese Sandwich by Deya Muniz
Numb to This: Memoir of a Mass Shooting by Kindra Neely
Little Thieves by Margaret Owen
Victory. Stand! Raising My Fist for Justice by Tommie Smith, Derrick Barnes, & Dawud Anyabwile
Chaos Theory by Nic Stone
This Golden State by Marit Weisenberg