Alex Award

[for the ten best adult books that appeal to teen audiences]

• Black Sun by Rebecca Roanhorse (Saga Press/Gallery Books/Simon)
• The House in the Cerulean Sea by TJ Klune (Tor Books/Tom Doherty Associates/Macmillan)
• The Impossible First: From Fire to Ice - Crossing Antarctica Alone by Colin O'Brady (Scribner/Simon)
• Kent State: Four Dead in Ohio by Derf Backderf (Abrams Comicarts)
• The Kids Are Gonna Ask by Gretchen Anthony (Park Row Books/Harlequin/HarperCollins)
• The Only Good Indians by Stephen Graham Jones (Saga Press/Gallery Books/Simon)
• Plain Bad Heroines by emily m. danforth (William Morrow/HarperCollins)
• Riot Baby by Tochi Onyebuchi (Tordotcom/Tom Doherty Associates/Macmillan)
• Solutions and Other Problems by Allie Brosh (Gallery Books/Simon)
• We Ride Upon Sticks: A Novel by Quan Barry (Pantheon Books/Penguin Random House)

Asian/Pacific American Award for Literature

[for promoting Asian/Pacific American culture and heritage; awarded based on literary and artistic merit; administered by the Asian Pacific American Librarians Association (APALA)]

Picture Book winner: Paper Son: The Inspiring Story of Tyrus Wong, Immigrant and Artist by Julie Leung, illustrated by Chris Sasaki (Schwartz & Wade/Random)

Honor book: Danbi Leads the School Parade by Anna Kim (Viking)

Children's Literature winner: When You Trap a Tiger by Tae Keller (Random House)

Honor book: Prairie Lotus by Linda Sue Park (Clarion)

Young Adult Literature winner: This Light Between Us by Andrew Fukuda (Tor Teen)

Honor book: Displacement by Kiku Hughes (First Second/Macmillan)

Mildred L. Batchelder Award

[for an outstanding children's book originally published in a language other than English in a country other than the United States, and subsequently translated into English for publiation in the United States]

Winner: Telephone Tales, written by Gianni Rodari, illustrated by Valerio Vidali, translated from Italian by Antony Shugaar (Enchanted Lion)

Honor book: Catherine's War written by Julia Billet, illustrated by Claire Fauvel, translated from French by Ivanka Hahnenberger (HarperAlley/HarperCollins)

Children's Literature Legacy Award

[honoring 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 through books that demonstrate integrity and respect for all children's lives and experiences]

Mildred D. Taylor

Coretta Scott King/John Steptoe New Talent Award

[given by the Coretta Scott King Task Force to young authors or illustrators who demonstrate outstanding promise]

Steptoe Author Award winner: Tracy Deonn for Legendborn (McElderry/Simon)

Coretta Scott King — Virginia Hamilton Award for Lifetime Achievement

[given by the Coretta Scott King Task Force for lifetime achievement]

Dorothy L. Guthrie

Margaret A. Edwards Award

[for lifetime achievement in writing for young adults]

Kekla Magoon

Excellence in Early Learning Digital Media Award

[for distinguished digital media for an early learning audience]

Winner: The Imagine Neighborhood produced by Committee for Children

Honoree: Sesame Street Family Play: Caring for Each Other produced by Sesame Workshop

William C. Morris Award

[for a debut book published by a first-time author writing for teens]

Winner: If These Wings Could Fly by Kyrie McCauley (Tegen/HarperCollins)

Finalists:

• Black Girl Unlimited: The Remarkable Story of a Teenage Wizard by Echo Brown (Ottaviano/Holt)
• The Black Kids by Christina Hammonds Reed (Simon)
• It Sounded Better in My Head by Nina Kenwood (Flatiron)
• Woven in Moonlight by Isabel Ibañez (Page Street)

Odyssey Award

[for best audiobook produced for children and/or young adults, available in English in the United States]

Winner: Kent State, written by Deborah Wiles, read by Christopher Gebauer, Lauren Ezzo, Christina DeLaine, Johnny Heller, Roger Wayne, Korey Jackson, and David de Vries (Scholastic Audio)

Honor audiobooks:

• Clap When You Land written by Elizabeth Acevedo, read by Elizabeth Acevedo and Melania-Luisa Marte (HarperAudio)
• Fighting Words written by Kimberly Brubaker Bradley, read by Bahni Turpin (Listening Library)
• Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You written by Jason Reynolds and Ibram X. Kendi, read by Jason Reynolds with an introduction by Ibram X. Kendi (Hachette Audio)
• When Stars Are Scattered written by Victoria Jamieson and Omar Mohamed, read by Faysal Ahmed, Barkhad Abdi and a full cast (Listening Library)

Schneider Family Book Award

[for books that embody an artistic expression of the disability experience]

Young Children (ages 0 to 10) winner: I Talk like a River by Jordan Scott, illustrated by Sydney Smith (Porter/Holiday)

Honor books:

• All the Way to the Top: How One Girl's Fight for Americans with Disabilities Changed Everything by Annette Bay Pimentel, illustrated by Nabi H. Ali (Sourcebooks eXplore/Sourcebooks)
• Itzhak: A Boy Who Loved the Violin by Tracy Newman, illustrated by Abigail Halpin (Abrams)

Middle Grades (ages 11-13) winner: Show Me a Sign by Ann Clare LeZotte (Scholastic)

Honor books:

• Get a Grip, Vivy Cohen! by Sarah Kapit (Dial)
• When Stars Are Scattered by Victoria Jamieson and Omar Mohamed, illustrated by Victoria Jamieson, color by Iman Geddy (Dial)

Teen (ages 13-18) winner: This Is My Brain in Love by I.W. Gregorio (Little, Brown)

Stonewall Book Award — Mike Morgan & Larry Romans Children's & Young Adult Literature Award

[given annually to English-language children's and young adult books of exceptional merit relating to the gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender experience]

Winner:

• We Are Little Feminists: Families by Archaa Shrivastav (Little Feminist)

Honor books:

• Beetle & the Hollowbones by Aliza Layne (Atheneum)
• Darius the Great Deserves Better by Adib Khorram (Dial)
• Felix Ever After by Kacen Callender (Balzer + Bray/HarperCollins)
• You Should See Me in a Crown by Leah Johnson (Scholastic)

Sydney Taylor Book Awards

[to outstanding books for children and teens that authentically portray the Jewish experience; presented by the Association of Jewish Libraries (AJL)]

Picture Book winner: Welcoming Elijah: A Passover Tale with a Tail by Lesléa Newman, illustrated by Susan Gal (Charlesbridge)

Honor books:

• I Am the Tree of Life: My Jewish Yoga Book by Mychal Copeland, illustrated by André Ceolin (Apples and Honey/Behrman)
• Miriam at the River by Jane Yolen, illustrated by Khoa Le (Kar-Ben)

Middle Grade winner: Turtle Boy by M. Evan Wolkenstein (Delacorte)

Honor books:

• No Vacancy by Tziporah Cohen (Groundwood)
• Anya and the Nightingale by Sofiya Pasternack (Versify/Houghton)
• Blackbird Girls by Anne Blankman (Viking)

Young Adult winner: Dancing at the Pity Party: A Dead Mom Graphic Memoir by Tyler Feder (Dial)

Honor book: They Went Left by Monica Hesse (Little, Brown)

For the complete list, including Notables, visit the AJL's website.

YALSA Award for Excellence in Nonfiction for Young Adults

Winner: The Rise and Fall of Charles Lindbergh by Candace Fleming (Schwartz & Wade/Random)

Finalists:

• All Thirteen: The Incredible Cave Rescue of the Thai Boys' Soccer Team by Christina Soontornvat (Candlewick)
• The Cat I Never Named: A True Story of Love, War, and Survival by Amra Sabic-El-Rayess with Laura L. Sullivan (Bloomsbury)
• How We Got to the Moon: The People, Technology, and Daring Feats of Science Behind Humanity's Greatest Adventure by John Rocco (Crown)
• You Call This Democracy?: How to Fix Our Government and Deliver Power to the People by Elizabeth Rusch (Houghton)

See the Horn Book's reviews of major 2021 ALA Youth Media Award winners.

For more, click on the tag ALA Midwinter 2021.