American Library Association
2017 Youth Media Awards
Announced live on January 23, 2017

Alex Awards
For the 10 best adult books that appeal
to teen audiences

Alex Awards
The Queen of Blood by Sarah Beth
Durst
The Regional Office is Under Attack! by
Manuel Gonzales
In the Country We Love: My Family
Divided by Diane Guerrero with
Michelle Burford
Buffering: Unshared Tales of a Life Fully
Loaded by Hannah Hart
Arena by Holly Jennings

Alex Awards
Every Heart a Doorway by Seanan
McGuire
Romeo and/or Juliet: A Chooseable-
Path Adventure by Ryan North
Die Young with Me: A Memoir by Rob
Rufus
The Wasp that Brainwashed the
Caterpillar by Matt Simon
The Invisible Life of Ivan Isaenko by
Scott Stambach

Schneider Family Book Award
For books that embody an artistic
expression of the disability experience

Schneider Family Book Award –
Young Children
Six Dots: A Story of Young Louis Braille,
written by Jen Bryant and illustrated
by Boris Kulikov

Schneider Family Book Award –
Middle Grade
As Brave as You by Jason Reynolds

Schneider Family Book Award –
Teen
When We Collided by Emery Lord

Stonewall Book Award
Given annually to English-language
children’s and young adult books of
exceptional merit relating to the gay,
lesbian, bisexual, and transgender
experience

Stonewall Book Award –
Honors
When the Moon Was Ours by Anna-
Marie McLemore
Unbecoming by Jenny Downham
Pride: Celebrating Diversity and
Community by Robin Stevenson

Stonewall Book Award –
Children’s Literature Winner
Magnus Chase and the Gods of Asgard:
The Hammer of Thor by Rick Riordan

Stonewall Book Award – Young
Adult Winner
If I was Your Girl by Meredith Russo

Coretta Scott King Book
Award
Recognizing an African American author
and illustrator of outstanding books for
children and young adults

Coretta Scott King – Virginia
Hamilton Award for Lifetime
Achievement
Dr. Rudine Sims Bishop

Coretta Scott King (Illustrator)
Book Award – Honors
Freedom in Congo Square, illustrated
by R. Gregory Christie and written by
Carole Boston Weatherford
Freedom Over Me: Eleven Slaves, Their
Lives and Dreams Brought to Life
written and illustrated by Ashley Bryan
In Plain Sight, illustrated by Jerry
Pinkney and written by Richard
Jackson

Coretta Scott King (Illustrator)
Book Award – Winner
Radiant Child: The Story of Young Artist
Jean-Michel Basquiat, illustrated and
written by Javaka Steptoe

Coretta Scott King (Author) Book
Award - Honors
As Brave as You by Jason Reynolds
Freedom Over Me: Eleven Slaves, their
lives and dreams brought to life written
and illustrated by Ashley Bryan

Coretta Scott King (Author) Book
Award - Winner
March: Book Three, written by John
Lewis and Andrew Aydin, and
illustrated by Nate Powell

Coretta Scott King/John Steptoe
New Talent Author Award
The Sun Is Also a Star by Nicola Yoon

Margaret A. Edwards Award
For lifetime achievement in writing for
young adults

Margaret A. Edwards Award
Sarah Dessen

Odyssey Award
For best audiobook produced for
children and/or young adults, available
in English in the United States

Odyssey Award – Honor
Ghost written by Jason Reynolds, narrated
by Guy Lockard, and produced by Simon
and Schuster Audio
Dream On, Amber written by Emma
Shevah, narrated by Laura Kirman, and
produced by Recorded Books
Nimona written by Noelle Stevenson;
narrated by Rebecca Soler, Jonathan
Davis, Marc Thompson, January LaVoy,
Natalie Gold, Peter Bradbury, and David
Pittu; and produced by HarperAudio

Odyssey Award – Winner
Anna and the Swallow Man written by
Gavriel Savit, narrated by Allan
Corduner, and produced by Listening
Library

William C. Morris Award
For a debut book published by a first-
time author writing for teens

William C. Morris Award –
Honors
Girl Mans Up by M-E Girard
Rami Patel in Full Effect by Sonia Patel
The Smell of Other People’s Houses by
Bonnie-Sue Hitchcock
Tell Me Something Real by Calla Devlin

William C. Morris Award –
Winner
The Serpent King by Jeff Zentner

YALSA Award for Excellence in
Nonfiction for Young Adults –
Honors
Hillary Rodham Clinton: A Woman Living
History by Karen Blumenthal
In the Shadow of Liberty: The Hidden
History of Slavery, Four Presidents, and
Five Black Lives by Kenneth C. Davis
Samurai Rising: The Epic Life of Minamoto
Yoshitsune, written by Pamela S. Turner
and illustrated by Gareth Hinds
This Land is Our Land: A History of
American Immigration by Linda Barrett
Osborne

YALSA Award for Excellence in
Nonfiction for Young Adults –
Winner
March: Book Three, written by John
Lewis and Andrew Aydin, and
illustrated by Nate Powell

Pura Belpré Award
Honoring a Latino writer and illustrator
whose children’s books portray, affirm,
and celebrate the Latino cultural
experience

Pura Belpré (Illustrator) Award –
Honors
Esquivel!: Space-Age Sound Artist,
illustrated by Duncan Tonatiuh and
written by Susan Wood
The Princess and the Warrior: A Tale of
Two Volcanoes, illustrated and written
by Duncan Tonatiuh

Pura Belpré (Illustrator) Award –
Winner
Lowriders to the Center of the Earth,
illustrated by Raúl Gonzalez and
written by Cathy Camper

Pura Belpré (Author) Award -
Honor
The Only Road by Alexandria Diaz

Pura Belpré (Author) Award -
Winner
Juana & Lucas, written and illustrated
by Juana Medina

May Hill Arbuthnot Honor Lecture
Award
Recognizing an author, critic, librarian,
historian or teacher of children’s
literature, who then presents a lecture
at a winning host site

May Hill Arbuthnot Honor Lecture
Award
Naomi Shihab Nye

Mildred L. Batchelder Award
For an outstanding children’s book
translated from a foreign language
and subsequently published in the
United States

Mildred L. Batchelder Award –
Honors
Over the Ocean by Taro Gomi,
translated from Japanese by Taylor
Norman
As Time Went By written by José
Sanabria, translated from German by
Audrey Hall
The Ballad of a Broken Nose written
and illustrated by Arne Svingen,
translated from Norweigian by Kari
Dickson

Mildred L. Batchelder Award –
Winner
Cry, Heart, But Never Break written by
Glenn Ringtved, illustrated by
Charlotte Pardi, and translated from
Danish by Robert Moulthrop

Robert F. Sibert Informational
Book Award
For most distinguished informational
book for children

Robert F. Sibert Informational
Book Award – Honors
Giant Squid written by Candace
Fleming, illustrated by Eric Rohmann
Sachiko: a Nagasaki Bomb Survivor’s
Story by Caren Stelson
Uprooted: The Japanese Experience
During World War II by Albert Marrin
We Will Not Be Silent: The White Rose
Student Resistance Movement That
Defied Adolf Hitler, written by Russell
Freedman

Robert F. Sibert Informational
Book Award – Winner
March: Book Three, written by John
Lewis and Andrew Aydin, and
illustrated by Nate Powell

Andrew Carnegie Medal
For excellence in children’s video

Andrew Carnegie Medal
Drum Dream Girl: How One Girl’s
Courage Changed Music produced by
Ryan Swenar

Laura Ingalls Wilder Award
Honors an author or illustrator whose
books, published in the United States,
have made, over a period of years, a
substantial and lasting contribution to
literature for children

Laura Ingalls Wilder Award
Nikki Grimes

Theodore Seuss Geisel
Award
For the most distinguished beginning
reader book

Theodore Seuss Geisel Award –
Honors
Go Otto Go written and illustrated by
David Milgrim
Good Night Owl written and illustrated
by Greg Pizzolo
The Infamous Ratsos, written by Kara
LaReau and illustrated by Matt Myers
Oops, Pounce, Quick, Run! An Alphabet
Caper, written and illustrated by Mike
Twohy

Theodore Seuss Geisel Award –
Winner
We are Growing: A Mo Willems’
Elephant & Piggie Like Reading! Book
written and illustrated by Laurie Keller
and Mo Willems

Randolph Caldecott Medal
For the most distinguished American
picture book for children

Randolph Caldecott Medal –
Honors
Leave Me Alone! illustrated and written
by Vera Brosgol
Freedom in Congo Square, illustrated
by R. Gregory Christie and written by
Carole Boston Weatherford
Du Iz Tak?, illustrated and written by
Carson Ellis
They All Saw a Cat, illustrated and
written by Brenden Wenzel

Randolph Caldecott Medal –
Winner
Radiant Child: The Story of Young Artist
Jean-Michel Basquiat, illustrated and
written by Javaka Steptoe

John Newbery Medal
For the most outstanding contribution to
children’s literature

John Newbery Medal –
Honors
Freedom Over Me: Eleven Slaves, Their
Lives and Dreams Brought to Life
written and illustrated by Ashley Bryan
The Inquisitor’s Tale: Or, The Three
Magical Children and Their Holy Dog
by Adam Gidwitz, illustrated by Hatem
Aly
Wolf Hollow by Lauren Wolk

John Newbery Medal –
Winner
The Girl Who Drank the Moon by Kelly
Barnhill

Michael L. Printz Award
For excellence in literature written for
young adults

Michael L. Printz Award –
Honors
Asking for It by Louise O’Neill
The Passion of Dolssa by Julie Berry
Scythe by Neal Shusterman
The Sun Is Also a Star by Nicola Yoon

Michael L. Printz Award – Winner
March: Book Three, written by John
Lewis and Andrew Aydin, and
illustrated by Nate Powell