2020 American Indian Youth Literature Awards

PICTURE BOOK WINNER

Bowwow Powwow by Brenda J. Child, illustrated by Jonathan Thunder

HONOR BOOKS

Fry Bread by Kevin Noble Millard

Birdsong by Julie Flett

At the Mountain’s Base by Traci Sorrell, illustrated by Weshoyot Alvitre

We Are Grateful: Otsaliheliga by Traci Sorrell, illustrated by Frane Lessac

Raven Makes the Aleutians illustrated by Janine Gibbons

 

MIDDLE GRADE WINNER

Indian No More by Charlene Willing McManis

HONOR BOOKS

I Can Make This Promise by Christine Day

The Grizzly Mother by Brett D. Huson, illustrated by Natasha Donovan

 

YA WINNER

Hearts Unbroken by Cynthia Leitich Smith

HONOR BOOKS

Surviving the City by Tasha Spillett

Reawakening Our Ancestors Lines by Angela Hovak Johnston, photographs by Cora Devos and Meta Antolin

An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the United States for Young People by Debbie Reese

Apple in the Middle by Dawn Quigley