A Map for Falasteen: A Palestinian Child’s Search for Home

by Maysa Odeh and Aliaa Betawi

(Honor, 2025)

Stamped (for Kids): Racism, Antiracism, and You

by Jason Reynolds, Ibram X. Kendi, Sonja Cherry-Paul, and Rachelle Baker

(Finalist, 2022)

The Day You Begin

by Jacqueline Woodson and Rafael López

(Winner, 2019)

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

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

(Winner, 2016)

Hot Day on Abbott Avenue

by Karen English, illustrated by Javaka Steptoe

(Honor, 2005)

Ambitious Girl

by Meena Harris and Marissa Valdez

(Finalist, 2022)

Before She Was Harriet

by Lesa Cline-Ransome and James Ransome

(Honor, 2018)

The Book Itch: Freedom, Truth, and Harlem’s Greatest Bookstore

by Vaunda Micheaux Nelson and R. Gregory Christie

(Honor, 2016)

Nasreen’s Secret School: A True Story from Afghanistan

by Jeanette Winter

(Winner, 2010)

Woke: A Young Poet’s Call to Justice

by Mahogany L. Browne, Elizabeth Acevedo, Olivia Gatwood, and Theodore Taylor, III

(Finalist, 2020)

Malala’s Magic Pencil

by Malala Yousafzai and Kerascoët

(Winner, 2018)

Separate Is Never Equal: Sylvia Mendez and Her Family’s Fight for Desegregation

by Duncan Tonatiuh

(Winner, 2015)

Harvesting Hope: The Story of Cesar Chavez

by Kathleen Krull and Yuyi Morales

(Winner, 2004)

Julián is a Mermaid

by Jessica Love

(Honor, 2019)

I Dissent: Ruth Bader Ginsburg Makes Her Mark

by Debbie Levy and Elizabeth Baddeley

(Honor, 2017)

We March

by Shane W. Evans

(Honor, 2013)

Each Kindness

by Jacqueline Woodson and E.B. Lewis

(Winner, 2013)

Mrs. Katz and Tush

by Patricia Polacco

(Honor, 1993)