ALA Youth Media Awards 2021 - Young Adults

Created on March 15, 2021, 10:13 am

Last Updated March 11, 2022, 9:04 am

Each year the American Library Association (ALA) honors books, audiobooks, and other outstanding materials for children and Young Adults. Recognized worldwide for the high quality they represent, the ALA Youth Media Awards guide parents, educators, librarians, and others in selecting the best materials for youth. Selected by committees composed of librarians and other literature and media experts, the awards encourage original and creative work in the field of children’s and young adult literature and media. This list includes awards such as the prestigious Printz, Morris, Coretta Scott King, Pura Belpré, and Robert F. Sibert book awards among others. www.ala.org/yma

1) All the days past, all the days to come

Author

Taylor, Mildred D

Series

Logan family (Mildred D. Taylor) volume 9

Formats:

Book, eBook, Kindle

Description

"In her tenth book, Mildred Taylor completes her sweeping saga about the Logan family of Mississippi, which is also the story of the civil rights movement in America of the 20th century. Cassie Logan, first met in Song of the Trees and Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry, is a young woman now, searching for her place in the world, a journey that takes her from Toledo to California, to law school in Boston, and, ultimately, in the 60s, home to Mississippi...

2) All thirteen: the incredible cave resuce of the Thai boys' soccer team

Author

Soontornvat, Christina

Formats:

Book, eBook, Kindle, Playaway

Description

"On June 23, 2018, twelve young players of the Wild Boars soccer team and their coach enter a cave in northern Thailand seeking an afternoon's adventure. But when they turn to leave, rising floodwaters block their path out. The boys are trapped! Before long, news of the missing team spreads, launching a seventeen-day rescue operation involving thousands of rescuers from around the globe. Combining firsthand interviews of rescue workers with in-depth...

3) Apple: skin to the core

Author

Gansworth, Eric L

Description

The term "Apple" is a slur in Native communities across the country. It's for someone supposedly "red on the outside, white on the inside." Eric Gansworth is telling his story in Apple (Skin to the Core). The story of his family, of Onondaga among Tuscaroras, of Native folks everywhere. From the horrible legacy of the government boarding schools, to a boy watching his siblings leave and return and leave again, to a young man fighting to be an artist...

4) Black girl unlimited: the remarkable story of a teenage wizard

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Description

From age six through her high school valedictory speech, believing she and her mother are wizards helps young Echo cope with poverty, hunger, her mother's drug abuse, and much more.

5) The black kids

Author

Hammonds Reed, Christina

Description

With the Rodney King riots closing in on high school senior Ashley and her family, the privileged bubble she has enjoyed, protecting her from the difficult realities most black people face, begins to crumble.

Author

Roanhorse, Rebecca

Series

Between earth and sky volume 1

Description

"The the first book in [this trilogy is] inspired by the civilizations of the Pre-Columbian Americas and woven into a tale of celestial prophecies, political intrigue, and forbidden magic. In the holy city of Tova, the winter solstice is usually a time for celebration and renewal, but this year it coincides with a solar eclipse, a rare celestial event proscribed by the Sun Priest as an unbalancing of the world. Meanwhile, a ship launches from a distant...

7) The cat I never named: a true story of love, war, and survival

Author

Sabic-El-Rayess, Amra

Description

In Bihac, Bosnia, in 1992, sixteen-year-old Amra and her family face starvation and the threat of brutal ethnic violence as Serbs and Bosnians clash, while a stray cat, Maci, provides solace.

8) Clap when you land

Author

Acevedo, Elizabeth

Formats:

Book, eAudiobook, Playaway

Description

Camino Rios lives for the summers when her father visits her in the Dominican Republic. But this time, on the day when his plane is supposed to land, Camino arrives at the airport to see crowds of crying people... In New York City, Yahaira Rios is called to the principal's office, where her mother is waiting to tell her that her father, her hero, has died in a plane crash. Separated by distance -- and Papi's secrets -- the two girls are forced to...

9) Dancing at the pity party: a dead mom graphic memoir

Author

Description

"Tyler Feder shares her story of her mother's first oncology appointment to facing reality as a motherless daughter in this ... graphic memoir"--

10) Darius the Great deserves better

Author

Series

Darius the Great volume 2

Description

"Darius Kellner has everything he thought he wanted--a new boyfriend, a new internship, and a spot on the soccer team--but growing up makes him question everything."--

11) Displacement

Author

Description

"Kiku is on vacation in San Francisco when suddenly she finds herself displaced to the 1940s Japanese-American internment camp that her late grandmother, Ernestina, was forcibly relocated to during World War II. These displacements keep occurring until Kiku finds herself stuck back in time. Living alongside her young grandmother and other Japanese-American citizens in internment camps, Kiku gets the education she never received in history class. She...

12) Dragon hoops

Author

Yang, Gene Luen

Description

Gene Luen Yang turns the spotlight on his life, his family, and the high school where he teaches especially the high school's basketball team, the Dragons.

13) Every body looking

Author

Description

In this novel in verse, a mixed-heritage dancer's coming of age within the African diaspora is shaped by abuse at the hands of a cousin, her mother's descent into addiction, and her father's efforts to create a Nigerian-inspired home in America.

14) Everything sad is untrue: (a true story)

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Formats:

Book, eBook, Kindle

Description

"At the front of a middle school classroom in Oklahoma, a boy named Khosrou (whom everyone calls "Daniel") stands, trying to tell a story. His story. But no one believes a word he says. To them he is a dark-skinned, hairy-armed boy with a big butt whose lunch smells funny; who makes things up and talks about poop too much. But Khosrou's stories, stretching back years, and decades, and centuries, are beautiful, and terrifying, from the moment his...

15) Felix ever after

Author

Callender, Kacen

Description

Felix Love, a transgender seventeen-year-old, attempts to get revenge by catfishing his anonymous bully, but lands in a quasi-love triangle with his former enemy and his best friend.

16) Furia

Author

Méndez, Yamile Saied

Formats:

Book, eAudiobook, eBook, Kindle, Playaway

Description

Seventeen-year-old Camila Hassan, a rising soccer star in Rosario, Argentina, dreams of playing professionally, in defiance of her fathers' wishes and at the risk of her budding romance with Diego.

17) The house in the cerulean sea

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Formats:

Book, Book - New (14 Days), eAudiobook, eBook, Kindle, Playaway

Description

"A magical island. A dangerous task. A burning secret. Linus Baker leads a quiet, solitary life. At forty, he lives in a tiny house with a devious cat and his old records. As a Case Worker at the Department in Charge Of Magical Youth, he spends his days overseeing the well-being of children in government-sanctioned orphanages. When Linus is unexpectedly summoned by Extremely Upper Management he's given a curious and highly classified assignment: travel...

18) How we got to the moon: the people, technology, and daring feats of science behind humanity's greatest adventure

Author

Description

"This beautifully illustrated, oversized guide to the people and technology of the moon landing by award-winning author/illustrator John Rocco is a must-have for space fans, classrooms, and tech geeks"--

19) If these wings could fly

Author

McCauley, Kyrie

Formats:

Book, eBook, Kindle

Description

In Auburn, Pennsylvania, a farming community overrun with crows, high school senior Leighton struggles to keep herself and her sisters safe from their abusive father even as she starts a relationship.

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