Children's & Young Adult Collection

Alex Awards - Ten books each year written for adults with special appeal to young adults, ages 12-18

Michael L. Printz Award for Excellence in Young Adult Literature - Awarded to the best young adult book

William C. Morris Young Adult Debut Award - Awarded to the best debut novel from an author writing for young adults

YALSA Award for Excellence in Nonfiction for Young Adults - Awarded to the best non-fiction book written for young adults

2025

Woman, life, freedom by Marjane Satrapi

The witchstone by Henry H Neff

The witch of Colchis by Rosie Hewlett

The dead cat tail assassins by P Dejli Clark

I was a teenage slasher by Stephen Graham Jones

I feel awful, thanks by Lara Pickle

How to solve your own murder by Kristen Perrin

Daughters of Shandong by Eve J Chung

Big Jim and the white boy by David F Walker & Marcus Kwame Anderson

Beautiful people : my thirteen truths about disability by Melissa Blake

2024

Whalefall by Daniel Kraus

The talk by Darrin Bell

The hard parts : a memoir of courage and triumph by Oksana Master

Starter villain by John Scalzi

Maame by Jessica George

I will greet the sun again by Khashayar J. Khabushani

Fourth wing by Rebecca Yarros

Chlorine by Jade Song

Chain-gang all-stars by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah

Bad Cree by Jessica Johns

2024 - The Collectors: Stories edited by A.S. King

2023 - All My Rage by Sabaa Tahir

2022 - The Firekeeper's Daughter by Angeline Boulley

2021 - Everything Sad Is Untrue (a True Story) by Daniel Nayeri

2020 - Dig by A.S. King

2019 - The Poet X by Elizabeth Acevedo

2018 - We Are Okay by Nina LaCour

2017 - March: Book Three by John Lewis, Andrew Aydin, and Nate Powell

2016 - Bone Gap by Laura Ruby

2015 - I'll Give You the Sun by Jandy Nelson

2025 - No Like Other Girls by Meredith Adamo

2024 - Rez Ball by Byron Graves

2023 - The Life and Crimes of Hoodie Rosen by Isaac Blum

2022 - The Firekeeper's Daughter by Angeline Boulley

2021 - If These Wings Could Fly by Kyrie McCauley

2020 - The Field Guide to the North American Teenager by Ben Philippe

2019 - Darius the Great Is Not Okay by Adib Khorram

2018- The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas

2017 - The Serpent King by Jeff Zentner

2016 - Simon Vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda by Becky Albertalli

2025 - Rising From the Ashes : Los Angeles, 1992. Edward Jae Song Lee, Latasha Harlins, Rodney King, and a city on fire by Paula Yoo

2024 - Accountable : the true story of a racist social media account and the teenagers whose lives it changed by Dashka Slater

2023 - Victory. Stand! : raising my fist for justice by Tommie Smith & Derrick Barnes

2022 - Ambushed! : the assassination plot against President Garfield by Gail Jarrow

2021 - The Rise & Fall of Charles Lindbergh by Candace Fleming

2020 - Free Lunch by Rex Ogle

2019 - The Unwanted: stories of the Syrian refugees by Don Brown

2018 - Vincent and Theo: the Van Gogh brothers by Deborah Heiligman

2017 - March: Book Three by John Lewis, Andrew Aydin, & Nate Powell

2016 - Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the secret history of the Vietnam War by Steven Sheinkin