Black Star

by Kwame Alexander

(Honor, 2025)

To Boldly Go

by Angela Dalton, illustrated by Lauren Semmer

(Finalist, 2024)

Ablaze with Color: A Story of Painter Alma Thomas

by Jeanne Walker Harvey and Loveis Wise

(Finalist, 2023)

Nina: A Story of Nina Simone

by Traci N. Todd, illustrated by Christian Robinson

(Finalist, 2022)

Ocean Speaks: How Marie Tharp Revealed the Ocean’s Biggest Secret

by Jess Keating, illustrated by Katie Hickey

(Honor, 2021)

Brave. Black. First.: 50+ African American Women Who Changed the World

by Cheryl Willis Hudson, illustrated by Erin K. Robinson

(Finalist, 2020)

Julián is a Mermaid

by Jessica Love

(Honor, 2019)

Piecing Me Together

by Renée Watson

(Honor, 2018)

Planting the Trees of Kenya: The Story of Wangari Maathai

by Claire A. Nivola

(Winner, 2009)

Let Me Play: The Story of Title IX: The Law That Changed the Future of Girls in America

by Karen Blumenthal

(Winner, 2006)

Mud City

by Deborah Ellis

(Commended, 2004)

Mani Semilla Finds Her Quetzal Voice

by Anna Lapera

(Finalist, 2025)

Justice Ketanji: The Story of US Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson

by Denise Lewis Patrick, illustrated by Kim Holt

(Finalist, 2024)

Rima’s Rebellion: Courage in a Time of Tyranny

by Margarita Engle

(Finalist, 2023)

Ambitious Girl

by Meena Harris, illustrated by Marissa Valdez

(Finalist, 2022)

Finish the Fight!: The Brave and Revolutionary Women Who Fought for the Right to Vote

by Veronica Chambers

(Honor, 2021)

Mother Jones and Her Army of Mill Children

by Jonah Winter, illustrated by Nancy Carpenter

(Finalist, 2020)

Before She Was Harriet

by Lesa Cline-Ransome and James Ransome

(Honor, 2018)

I Dissent: Ruth Bader Ginsburg Makes Her Mark

by Debbie Levy, illustrated by Elizabeth Baddeley

(Honor, 2017)

Brave Girl: Clara and the Shirtwaist Makers’ Strike of 1909

by Michelle Markel, illustrated by Melissa Sweet

(Winner, 2014)

With Courage and Cloth: Winning the Fight for a Woman’s Right to Vote

by Ann Bausum

(Winner, 2005)

Parvana’s Journey

by Deborah Ellis

(Commended, 2004)
(Winner, 2003)

Up, Up, Ever Up!: Junko Tabei: A Life in the Mountains

by Anita Yasuda and Yuko Shimizu

(Finalist, 2025)

Ida B. Wells, Voice of Truth: Educator, Feminist, and Anti-Lynching Civil Rights Leader

by Michelle Duster, illustrated by Laura Freeman

(Honor, 2023)

Sanctuary: Kip Tiernan and Rosie’s Place, the Nation’s First Shelter for Women

by Christine McDonnell, illustrated by Victoria Tentler-Krylov

(Honor, 2023)

Legacy: Women Poets of the Harlem Renaissance

by Nikki Grimes

(Finalist, 2022)

Strong as Fire, Fierce as Flame

by Supriya Kelkar

(Honor, 2022)

Kamala and Maya’s Big Idea

by Meena Harris, illustrated by Ana Ramí­rez González

(Finalist, 2020)

Full Cicada Moon

by Marilyn Hilton

(Honor, 2016)

Almost Astronauts: 13 Women Who Dared to Dream

by Tanya Lee Stone

(Honor, 2010)

Rickshaw Girl

by Mitali Perkins, illustrated by Jamie Hogan

(Honor, 2008)

Girl Wonder: A Baseball Story in Nine Innings

by Deborah Hopkinson, illustrated by Terry Widener

(Honor, 2004)

The Breadwinner

by Deborah Ellis

(Commended, 2004)

A World Worth Saving

by Kyle Lukoff

(Finalist, 2026)

The Civil War of Amos Abernathy

by Michael Leali

(Finalist, 2023)

Because Claudette

by Tracey Baptiste, illustrated by Tonya Engel

(Finalist, 2023)

Alice Austen Lived Here

by Alex Gino

(Finalist, 2023)

She Caught the Light: Williamina Stevens Fleming: Astronomer

by Kathryn Lasky, illustrated by Julianna Swaney

(Finalist, 2022)

Shirley Chisholm Dared: The Story of the First Black Woman in Congress

by Alicia D. Williams and April Harrison

(Winner, 2022)

The Only Woman in the Photo: Frances Perkins & Her New Deal for America

by Kathleen Krull, illustrated by Alexandra Bye

(Finalist, 2020)

Malala’s Magic Pencil

by Malala Yousafzai, illustrated by Kerascoët

(Winner, 2018)

Turning 15 on the Road to Freedom: My Story of the Selma Voting Rights March

by Lynda Blackmon Lowery, Elspeth Leacock, Susan Buckley, illustrated by P.J. Loughran

(Winner, 2016)

The Surrender Tree: Poems of Cuba’s Struggle for Freedom

by Margarita Engle

(Winner, 2009)