On Monday, January 22, the American Library Association (ALA) announced the top books, digital media, video and audio books for children and young adults – including the Caldecott, Coretta Scott King, Newbery and Printz awards – at its LibLearnX: The Library Learning Experience, taking place in-person for the first time in New Orleans.
A list of the 2024 award winners and honor selections from the Young Adult category follows:
Coretta Scott King (Author) Book Award: Nigeria Jones, written by Ibi Zoboi
Coretta Scott King/John Steptoe New Talent Author Award: There Goes the Neighborhood, written by Jade Adia
Michael L. Printz Award for excellence in literature written for young adults: The Collectors: Stories, edited by A.S. King,
- Printz Honor Books: Fire from the Sky, written by Moa Backe Åstot, translated by Eva Apelqvist; Gather, written by Kenneth M. Cadow; The Girl I Am, Was, and Never Will Be: A Speculative Memoir of Transracial Adoption, written by Shannon Gibney; Salt the Water, written by Candice Iloh
Schneider Family Book Award for books that embody an artistic expression of the disability experience: Forever Is Now, written by Mariama J. Lockington
- Schneider Family Honor Books: Where You See Yourself, written by Claire Forrest; and Tilly in Technicolor, written by Mazey Eddings
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 publication in the United States: Houses with a Story: A Dragon’s Den, a Ghostly Mansion, a Library of Lost Books, and 30 More Amazing Places to Explore, written and illustrated by Seiji Yoshida, translated by Jan Mitsuko Cash
- Pardalita, written and illustrated by Joana Estrela, translated by Lyn Miller-Lachmann
Odyssey Award for the best audiobooks produced for young adults: Promise Boys, written by Nick Brooks and narrated by a full cast
- Odyssey Honor Audiobooks: Once There Was, written by Kiyash Monsef and narrated by Nikki Massoud; Stateless, written by Elizabeth Wein and narrated by Moira Quirk.
Pura Belpré Awards honoring Latinx writers and illustrators whose young adult books best portray, affirm and celebrate the Latino cultural experience: Saints of the Household, written by Ari Tison
- Belpré Young Adult Author Honor Books: The Prince and the Coyote, written by David Bowles, illustrated by Amanda Mijangos; and Worm: A Cuban American Odyssey, written and illustrated by Edel Rodriguez
Stonewall Book Award given annually to English-language young adult books of exceptional merit relating to the gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender experience: Only This Beautiful Moment, written by Abdi Nazemian
- Stonewall Honor Books: Ander & Santi Were Here, written by Jonny Garza Villa; Imogen, Obviously, written by Becky Albertalli; The Long Run, written by James Acker; and The Spirit Bares Its Teeth, written by Andrew Joseph White
William C. Morris Award for a debut book published by a first-time author writing for teens: Rez Ball, written by Byron Grave
- Morris Award Finalists: All the Fighting Parts, written by Hannah V. Sawyerr ; Once There Was, written by Kiyash Monsef; Saints of the Household, written by Ari Tison; and She Is a Haunting, written by Trang Thanh Tran
YALSA Award for Excellence in Nonfiction for Young Adults: Accountable: The True Story of a Racist Social Media Account and the Teenagers Whose Lives It Changed, written by Dashka Slater
- Finalists: America Redux: Visual Stories from Our Dynamic History, written and illustrated by Ariel Aberg-Riger; Family Style: Memories of an American from Vietnam, written and illustrated by Thien Pham; From Here, written by Luma Mufleh; and Nearer My Freedom: The Interesting Life of Olaudah Equiano by Himself, written by Monica Edinger and Lesley Younge
American Indian Youth Literature Awards, announced in even years (e.g. 2022, 2024, 2026) and established to identify and honor the very best writing and illustrations by and about American Indians and Alaska Natives: Rez Ball, written by Byron Graves (Ojibwe)
- Warrior Girl Unearthed, by Angeline Boulley (Sault Ste. Marie Tribe of Chippewa Indians); Funeral Songs for Dying Girls, by Cherie Dimaline (Métis); Man Made Monsters, by Andrea L. Rogers (Cherokee Nation), illustrated by Jeff Edwards (Cherokee Nation); Running with Changing Woman, by Lorinda Martinez (Diné); and Heroes of the Water Monster, by Brian Young (Navajo Nation)
Asian/Pacific American Award for Literature, which promotes Asian/Pacific American culture and heritage and is awarded based on literary and artistic merit: I’d Rather Burn Than Bloom, written by Shannon C. F. Rogers
- Youth Literature honor title: In Limbo, written by Deb JJ Lee
The Sydney Taylor Book Award, presented annually to outstanding books for children and teens that authentically portray the Jewish experience: The Blood Years, by Elana K. Arnold
- Young Adult honors: Courage to Dream: Tales of Hope in the Holocaust, by Neal Shusterman, illustrated by Andrés Vera Martínez; Going Bicoastal, by Dahlia Adler, published by Wednesday Books; Impossible Escape: A True Story of Survival and Heroism in Nazi Europe, by Steve Sheinkin; and Wrath Becomes Her, by Aden Polydoros