2024 Winners
Children’s Winner:
Cross My Heart and Never Lie by Nora Dåsnes
Tuva is starting seventh grade, and her checklist of goals includes: writing out a diary, getting a trendy look, building the best fort in the woods with her BFFs, and much more. But when she starts school, nothing is how she hoped it would be. Seventh grade has split her friends into rival factions: TEAM LINNEA and the girls who fall in love and TEAM BAO and the girls who NEVER fall in love. Linnea has a BOYFRIEND, Bao hates everything related to love. Worst of all, Linnea and Bao expect Tuva to choose a side!
Young Adult Winner:
Only This Beautiful Moment by Abdi Nazemian
Set against the backdrop of Tehran and Los Angeles, this sweeping intergenerational story, examining queer identity at the end of different decades, follows three boys in the same Iranian family as they each gain a new understanding of their history, culture–and themselves.
2024 Honor(s):
Children’s:
Young Adult:
2023
Children’s:
Young Adult:
2016-2021
*Winners in bold
2016
- Children’s Award: Melissa by Alex Gino
- Young Adult Award: The Porcupine of Truth by Bill Konigsberg
- Sex is a Funny Word: a Book about Bodies, Feelings, and YOU by Cory Silverberg and Fiona Smyth
- Wonders of the Invisible World by Christopher Barzak
2017
- Magnus Chase and the Gods of Asgard: The Hammer of Thor by Rick Riordan
- If I Was Your Girl by Meredith Russo
- When the Moon Was Ours, by Anna-Marie McLemore
- Unbecoming by Jenny Downham
- Pride: Celebrating Diversity & Community by Robin Stevenson
2018
- The 57 Bus by Dashka Slater
- Little & Lion by Brandy Colbert
- As the Crow Flies written and illustrated by Melanie Gillman
- The Gentleman’s Guide to Vice and Virtue by Mackenzi Lee
2019
- Julian is a Mermaid by Jessica Love
- Hurricane Child by Kacen Callender
- Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World by Ashley Herring Blake
- Picture Us in the Light by Kelly Loy Gilbert
2020
- When Aidan Became a Brother by Kyle Lukoff and illustrated by Kaylani Juanita
- The Black Flamingo by Dean Atta
- Pet by Akwaeke Emezi
- Like a Love Story by Abdi Nazemian
- The Best at It by Maulik Pancholy
2021
- We Are Little Feminists: Families designed by Lindsey Blakely, written by Archaa Shrivastav
- Beetle & The Hollowbones by Aliza Layne
- Darius the Great Deserves Better by Adib Khorram
- Felix Ever After by Kacen Callender
- You Should See Me in a Crown by Leah Johnson
2022
- Children’s Award: Too Bright Too See by Kyle Lukoff
- Young Adult Award: Last night at the Telegraph Club by Malinda Lo
- Almost Flying by Jake Maia Arlow
- The Darkness Outside Us by Eliot Schrefer
- Grandad’s Camper by Harry Woodgate
*Descriptions are taken from summaries, publisher, and/or our online catalog*