Illustrator Award
Honor Books:
The Cazuela That the Farm Maiden Stirred by Samantha R. Vamos, illustrated by Rafael Lopez
Marison McDonald Doesn’t Match by Monica Brown, illustrated by Sara Palacios
Winner:
Diego Rivera: His World and Ours by Duncan Tonatiuh
Text Award
Honor Books:
Maximilian and the Mystery of the Guardian Angel by Xavier Garza
Hurricane Dancers by Margarita Engle (I LOOOOVE her work!)
Winner
Under the Mesquite by Guadalupe Garcia McCall
Honor Books
Why We Broke Up by Daniel Handler
The Returning by Christine Hinwood
Jasper Jones by Craig Silvey
The Scorpio Races by Maggie Stiefvater
Winner
Where Things Come Back by John Corey Whaley
Finalists:
Sugar Changed the World by Marc Aronson and Marina Budhos
Bootleg by Karen Blumenthal
Wheels of Change by Sue Macy
Music Was It by Susan Goldman Rubin
The Notorious Benedict Arnold by Steve Sheinkin
Winner:
The Notorious Benedict Arnold by Steve Sheinkin
For YA Debut Author (love this award and I hope it expands to other ages for a debut award)
Winner
Where Things Come Back by John Corey Whaley
Susan Cooper!!!! Love it!!!
Virginia Hamilton Lifetime Achievement Award
Ashley Bryan
Illustrator Award
Honor Book
Kadir Nelson for Heart and Soul: The Story of America and African Americans
Winner
Shane W. Evans for Underground: Find the Light to Freedom (Yippeee!)
Author Award
Honor Books
The Great Migration: Journey to the North by Eloise Greenfield
Never Forgotten by Patricia C. McKissack
Winner
Heart and Soul by Kadir Nelson (Amazing to win both!)
Honor Books
a + e 4ever by Ilike Merey
Money Boy by Paul Yee
Pink by Lili Wilkinson
With or Without You by Brian Farrey
WINNER
Putting Makeup on the Fat Boy by Bil Wright
NO WINNER FOR CHILDREN’S CATEGORY!
MIDDLE SCHOOL
Close to Famous by Joan Bauer
Wonderstruck by Brian Selznick
TEEN
The Running Dream by Wendelin Van Draanen
The Scrapbook of Frankie Pratt by Caroline Preston
Salvage the Bones by Jesmyn Ward
Robopocalypse by Daniel Wilson
Ready Player One by Ernest Cline
The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern
The New Kids by Brooke Hauser
The Lover’s Dictionary by David Levithan
In Zanesville by Jo Ann Beard
Big Girl Small by Rachel DeWoskin
Waking Brain Cells 