On Monday, January 27, 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 held January 24-27 in Phoenix..
A list of the 2025 award winners and honor selections from the Young Adult category follows:
Coretta Scott King (Author) Book Award: Twenty-four Seconds from Now…, written by Jason Reynolds
- King Author Honor Book: Black Girl You Are Atlas, written by Renée Watson, illustrated by Ekua Holmes
Michael L. Printz Award for excellence in literature written for young adults: Brownstone, written by Samuel Teer, illustrated by Mar Julia
- Printz Honor Books: Bright Red Fruit, written by Safia Elhillo; Compound Fracture, written by Andrew Joseph White; The Deep Dark, written by Molly Knox Ostertag; and Road Home, written by Rex Ogle
Schneider Young Adult Award for books that embody an artistic expression of the disability experience: Chronically Dolores, written by Maya Van Wagenen
- Schneider Young Adult Honor Books: Light Enough to Float, written by Lauren Seal; and On the Bright Side, written by Anna Sortino
Odyssey Award for the best audiobooks produced for young adults: How the Boogeyman Became a Poet, written by Tony Keith Jr. and narrated by Tony Keith Jr.
- Odyssey Honor Audiobooks: Black Girl You Are Atlas, written by Renée Watson, illustrated by Ekua Holmes and narrated by Renée Watson; Dispatches from Parts Unknown, written by Bryan Bliss and narrated by Joy Nash; and Girls Like Her, written by Melanie Sumrow and narrated by Melanie Sumrow and January LaVoy
Pura Belpré Awards honoring Latinx writers and illustrators whose young adult books best portray, affirm and celebrate the Latino cultural experience: Shut Up, This Is Serious, written by Carolina Ixta
- Belpré Young Adult Author Honor Books: Libertad, written by Bessie Flores Zaldívar; and Wild Dreamers, written by Margarita Engle
Stonewall Book Award given annually to English-language young adult books of exceptional merit relating to the gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender experience: Canto Contigo, written by Jonny Garza Villa
- Stonewall Honor Books: Most Ardently: A Pride and Prejudice Remix, written by Gabe Cole Novoa; Navigating with You, written by Jeremy Whitley, illustrated by Cassio Ribeiro; Road Home, written by Rex Ogle; and Time and Time Again, written by Chatham Greenfield
William C. Morris Award for a debut book published by a first-time author writing for teens: Not Like Other Girls, written by Meredith Adamo
- Morris Award Finalists: Aisle Nine, written by Ian X. Cho; Dead Things Are Closer Than They Appear, written by Robin Wasley; Shut Up, This Is Serious, written by Carolina Ixta; and The Wilderness of Girls, written by Madeline Claire Franklin
YALSA Award for Excellence in Nonfiction for Young Adults: Rising from the Ashes: Los Angeles, 1992 – Edward Jae Song Lee, Latasha Harlins, Rodney King, and a City on Fire, written by Paula Yoo
- Finalists: A Greater Goal: The Epic Battle for Equal Pay in Women’s Soccer—and Beyond, written by Elizabeth Rusch; Homebody, written by Theo Parish; Shackled: A Tale of Wronged Kids, Rogue Judges, and a Town that Looked Away, written by Candy J. Cooper; and The Unboxing of a Black Girl, written by Angela Shanté
Asian/Pacific American Award for Literature, which promotes Asian/Pacific American culture and heritage and is awarded based on literary and artistic merit:
Everything We Never Had, written by Randy Ribay
- Youth Literature honor title: Lunar New Year Love Story, written by Gene Luen Yang, illustrated by LeUyen Pham; Dragonfruit, written by Makiia Lucier
The Sydney Taylor Book Award, presented annually to outstanding books for children and teens that authentically portray the Jewish experience: Night Owls, written by A.R. Vishny
- Young Adult Silver Medalists: The Forbidden Book, written by Sacha Lamb; and Trajectory, written by Cambria Gordon
Alex Awards for the 10 best adult books that appeal to teen audiences: Beautiful People: My Thirteen Truths About Disability, by Melissa Blake; Big Jim and the White Boy: An American Classic Reimagined, written by David F. Walker, illustrated by Marcus Kwame Anderson; Daughters of Shandong, by Eve J. Chung; Dead Cat Tail Assassins, by P. Djèlí Clark; How to Solve Your Own Murder: A Novel, by Kristen Perrin; I Feel Awful, Thanks, written and illustrated by Lara Pickle; I Was a Teenage Slasher, written by Stephen Graham Jones; The Witch of Colchis, by Rosie Hewlett; The Witchstone, by Henry H. Neff; and Woman, Life, Freedom, created by Marjane Satrapi, translated by Una Dimitrijević