Amil and the After
by Veera Hiranandani
(Finalist, 2025)
Top Story
by Kelly Yang
(Finalist, 2024)
The People’s Painter: How Ben Shahn Fought for Justice with Art
by Cynthia Y. Levinson, illustrated by Evan Turk
(Finalist, 2022)
The Day War Came
by Nicola Davies, illustrated by Rebecca Cobb
(Honor, 2019)
Inside Out & Back Again
by Thanhhà Lại
(Honor, 2012)
Mud City
by Deborah Ellis
(Commended, 2004)
The Breadwinner
by Deborah Ellis
(Commended, 2004)
Lupita Mañana
by Patricia Beatty
(Honor, 1982)
Kareem Between
by Shifa Saltagi Safadi
(Finalist, 2025)
Land of Broken Promises
by Jane Kuo
(Finalist, 2024)
Unsettled
by Reem Faruqi
(Finalist, 2022)
Freedom Soup
by Tami Charles, illustrated by Jacqueline Alcántara
(Finalist, 2020)
Mama’s Nightingale: A Story of Immigration and Separation
by Edwidge Danticat, illustrated by Leslie Staub
(Honor, 2016)
Shutting Out the Sky: Life in the Tenements of New York 1880-1924
by Deborah Hopkinson
(Honor, 2004)
Marianthe’s Story: Painted Words and Spoken Memories
by Aliki
(Winner, 1999)
The Road from Home: The Story of an Armenian Girl
by David Kherdian
(Winner, 1980)
The House Before Falling Into the Sea
by Ann Suk Wang and Hanna Cha
(Finalist, 2025)
Warrior Girl
by Carmen Tafolla
(Finalist, 2024)
The Day Saida Arrived
by Susana Gómez Redondo and Sonja Wimmer
(Finalist, 2020)
The Night Diary
by Veera Hiranandani
(Honor, 2019)
Sugar
by Jewell Parker Rhodes
(Winner, 2014)
Parvana’s Journey
by Deborah Ellis
(Commended, 2004)
(Winner, 2003)
Habibi
by Naomi Shihab Nye
(Winner, 1998)
Dragonwings
by Laurence Yep
(Honor, 1976)
A Map for Falasteen: A Palestinian Child’s Search for Home
by Maysa Odeh and Aliaa Betawi
(Honor, 2025)
A Seed in the Sun
by Aida Salazar
(Finalist, 2023)
Until Someone Listens
by Estela Juarez, Lissette Norman, illustrated by Teresa Martínez
(Finalist, 2023)
Barefoot Dreams of Petra Luna
by Alda P. Dobbs
(Finalist, 2022)
When Stars Are Scattered
by Victoria Jamieson, Omar Mohamed, and Iman Geddy
(Finalist, 2020)
A Long Walk to Water
by Linda Sue Park
(Winner, 2011)
The Storyteller’s Candle / La velita de los cuentos
by Lucia M. Gonzalez, illustrated by Lulu Delacre
(Honor, 2009)
TeachingBooks defines their category of “Immigrant/Refugee” as: “Books focusing on the histories, cultures, experiences, and perspectives of immigrants and/or refugees and their families living anywhere in the world.”