Simpson Library: Juvenile/Young Adult Literature: ILA Awards

International Literacy Association (ILA) Children's and Young Adults' Book Awards

The International Literacy Association (ILA) Children's and Young Adult Book Awards are intended for newly published authors who show unusual promise in the children's and young adult book field. Awards are given for fiction and nonfiction in each of three (3) categories: Primary, Intermediate, and Young Adult.

2024-2019 Award Winning Books

Lonely Bird by Ruth Whiting (Illustrator)
Call Number: Juvenile PZ7.1.W456 Lo 2023
ILA Awards (Primary Fiction) Winner (2024)
Jumper by Jessica Lanan (Illustrator)
Call Number: Juvenile QL458.42.S24 L36 2023
ILA Awards (Primary Nonfiction) Winner (2024)
Bea Wolf by Boulet (Illustrator); Zach Weinersmith
Call Number: Juvenile PN6728.S78 B45 2023
ILA Awards (Intermediate Fiction) Winner (2024)
My Selma by Willie Mae Brown
Call Number: Juvenile F330.3.B76 A3 2023
ILA Awards (Intermediate Nonfiction) Winner (2024)
Warrior Girl Unearthed by Angeline Boulley
Call Number: Young Adult PZ7.1.B6784 War 2023
Boston Globe-Horn Book Award (Fiction and Poetry) Winner (2023)
ILA Awards (Young Adult Fiction) Winner (2024)
Monstrous by Sarah Myer
Call Number: Young Adult HV875.64 .M94 2023
ILA Awards (Young Adult Nonfiction) Winner (2024)

Gibberish by Young Vo
Call Number: Juvenile PZ7.1.V645 Gi 2022
ILA Awards (Primary Fiction) Winner (2023)
Hello, Opportunity by Shaelyn McDaniel; Cornelia Li (Illustrator)
Call Number: Juvenile TL475 .M43 2022
ILA Awards (Primary Nonfiction) Winner (2023)
Nowhere Better Than Here by Sarah Guillory
Call Number: Juvenile PZ7.G9387 No 2022
ILA Awards (Intermediate Fiction) Winner (2023)
Unlawful Orders: a Portrait of Dr. James B. Williams, Tuskegee Airman, Surgeon, and Activist (Scholastic Focus) by Barbara Binns
Call Number: Juvenile D790.253 477th .B56 2022
ILA Awards (Intermediate Nonfiction) Winner (2023)
Man Made Monsters by Andrea Rogers; Jeff Edwards (Illustrator)
Call Number: Young Adult PZ7.1.R645 Man 2022
ILA Awards (Young Adult Fiction) Winner (2023)
Freedom! the Story of the Black Panther Party by Jetta Grace Martin; Joshua Bloom; Waldo E. Martin Jr.
Call Number: Young Adult E185.615 .M37 2022
ILA Awards (Young Adult Nonfiction) Winner (2023)

Isabel and Her Colores Go to School by Alexandra Alessandri; Courtney Dawson (Illustrator)
Call Number: Juvenile PZ73 .A49135 2021
ILA Awards (Primary Fiction) Winner (2022)
Mimic Makers by Kristen Nordstrom; Paul Boston (Illustrator)
Call Number: Juvenile QP517.B56 N67 2021
ILA Awards (Primary Nonfiction) Winner (2022)
Starfish by Lisa Fipps
Call Number: Young Adult PZ7.5.F57 St 2021
ILA Awards (Intermediate Fiction) Winner (2022)
It Takes Guts by Jennifer Gardy; Belle Wuthrich (Illustrator)
Call Number: Juvenile QP145 .G24 2021
ILA Awards (Intermediate Nonfiction) Winner (2022)
Both Sides Now by Peyton Thomas
Call Number: Young Adult PZ7.1.T46546 Bo 2021
ILA Awards (Young Adult Fiction) Winner (2022)
No Way, They Were Gay? by Lee Wind
Call Number: Juvenile HQ75.2 .W56 2021
ILA Awards (Young Adult Nonfiction) Winner (2022)

Magnificent Homespun Brown by Samara Cole Doyon; Kaylani Juanita (Illustrator)
Call Number: Juvenile PZ7.1.D695 Mag 2020
ILA Awards (Primary Fiction) Winner (2021)
This Is a Seahorse by Cassandra Federman (Illustrator)
Call Number: Juvenile PZ7.1.F423 Thm 2020
ILA Awards (Primary Nonfiction) Winner (2021)
Brother's Keeper by Julie Lee
Call Number: Young Adult PZ7.1.L417262 Bro 2020
ILA Awards (Intermediate Fiction) Winner (2021)
The Suffragist Playbook: Your Guide to Changing the World by Lucinda Robb; Rebecca Boggs Roberts
Call Number: Young Adult JK1896 .R625 2020
ILA Awards (Intermediate Nonfiction) Winner (2021)
The Magic Fish by Trung Le Nguyen
Call Number: Young Adult PZ7.7.T79 Mag 2020
ILA Awards (Young Adult Fiction) Winner (2021)
The Black Friend: on Being a Better White Person by Frederick Joseph
Call Number: Young Adult E184.A1 J664 2020
ILA Awards (Young Adult Nonfiction) Winner (2021)

Bird Count by Susan Edwards Richmond; Stephanie Fizer Coleman (Illustrator)
Call Number: Juvenile PZ7.1.R5337 Bir 2019
ILA Awards (Primary Fiction) Winner (2020)
A Green Place to Be: the Creation of Central Park by Ashley Benham Yazdani (Illustrator)
Call Number: Juvenile F128.65.C3 Y39 2019
ILA Awards (Primary Nonfiction) Winner (2020)
Golden Kite Awards (Picture Book Text) Winner (2020)
Caterpillar Summer by Gillian McDunn
Call Number: Young Adult PZ7.1.M43453 Cat 2019
ILA Awards (Intermediate Fiction) Winner (2020)
Every Stolen Breath by Kimberly Gabriel
Call Number: Young Adult PZ7.1.G24 Ev 2019
ILA Awards (Young Adult Fiction) Winner (2020)
Dissenter on the Bench: Ruth Bader Ginsburg's Life & Work by Victoria Ortiz
Call Number: Young Adult KF8745.G56 O78 2019
ILA Awards (Young Adult Nonfiction) Winner (2020)

Julián Is a Mermaid by Jessica Love (Illustrator)
Call Number: Juvenile PZ7.1.L68 J8 2018
ILA Awards (Primary Fiction) Winner (2019)
Let the Children March by Monica Clark-Robinson; Frank Morrison (Illustrator)
Call Number: Juvenile PZ7.1.C585 L4 2018
ILA Awards (Primary Nonfiction) Winner (2019)
Hope in the Holler by Lisa Lewis Tyre
Call Number: Juvenile PZ7.1.T97 H67 2018
ILA Awards (Intermediate Fiction) Winner (2019)
Trash Revolution by Erica Fyvie; Bill Slavin (Illustrator)
Call Number: Juvenile TD792 .F98 2018
ILA Awards (Intermediate Nonfiction) Winner (2019)
Dear Rachel Maddow by Adrienne Kisner
Call Number: Young Adult PZ7.1 .K6267 D4 2018
ILA Awards (Young Adult Fiction) Winner (2019)
I Have the Right To by Chessy Prout; Jenn Abelson
Call Number: Young Adult HV6561 .P76 2018
ILA Awards (Young Adult Nonfiction) Winner (2019)