Children's Literature: 2020s Newbery Awards

Newbery Medal, 2022
Pura Belpre Children's Author Award, 2022

Newbery Honor Book, 2022
Reha feels torn between two worlds: school, where she’s the only Indian American student, and home, with her family’s traditions and holidays. But Reha’s parents don’t understand why she’s conflicted. Then Reha finds out that her Amma is sick. She’ll be the perfect daughter, if it means saving her Amma’s life.

Newbery Honor Book, 2022
Fifteen-year-olds Nina and Oli come from different words--she is a Lipan Apache living in Texas and he is a cottonmouth from the Reflecting World--but their lives intersect when Oli journeys to Earth to find a cure for his ailing friend and they end up helping each other save their families.

Newbery Honor Book, 2022
Stonewall Award, 2022
National Book Award Finalist, 2021
In the summer before middle school, eleven-year-old Bug must contend with best friend Moira suddenly caring about clothes, makeup, and boys; a ghost haunting; and the truth about Bug’s gender identity.

Caldecott Medal Winner, 2022
Newbery Honor Book, 2022
Embarrassed about gathering watercress from a roadside ditch, a girl learns to appreciate her Chinese heritage after learning why the plant is so important to her parents.

Newbery Medal Winner, 2021
When Lily, her sister Sam, and their mother move in with her sick grandmother, Lily traps a tiger and makes a deal with him to heal Halmoni.

Newbery Honor Book, 2021

Newbery Honor Book, 2021

Newbery Honor Book, 2021

Newbery Honor Book, 2021

Newbery Medal, 2020
Coretta Scott King Author Award, 2020
Texas Bluebonnet Selection, 2021

Newbery Honor Book, 2020

Caldecott Medal, 2020
Coretta Scott King Illustrator Award, 2020
Newbery Honor Book, 2020