Simpson Library: Juvenile/Young Adult Literature: Horn Book Award

Boston Globe Horn Book Award

First presented in 1967 and customarily announced in June, the Boston Globe–Horn Book Awards are among the most prestigious honor in the field of children’s and young adult literature.

Winners are selected in three categories: Picture Book, Fiction and Poetry, and Nonfiction. Two Honor Books may be named in each category.

The winning titles must be published in the United States but they may be written or illustrated by citizens of any country. The awards are chosen by an independent panel of three judges who are annually appointed by the editor in chief of the Horn Book.

2024-2019 Award Winning Books

2024 Winners To Be Posted When Announced

When You Can Swim by Jack Wong
Call Number: Juvenile PZ7.1.W6358 Wh 2023
Boston Globe-Horn Book Award (Picture Book) Winner (2023)
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)
Sunshine: a Graphic Novel by Jarrett J. Krosoczka
Call Number: Young Adult PS3611.R775 Z46 2023
Boston Globe-Horn Book Award (Nonfiction) Winner (2023)

Ain't Burned All the Bright by Jason Reynolds; Jason Griffin (Illustrator)
Call Number: Young Adult PS3618.E9753 A78 2022
Boston Globe-Horn Book Award (Picture Book) Winner (2022)
All My Rage by Sabaa Tahir
Call Number: Young Adult PZ 7.1 .T33 Al 2022
Boston Globe-Horn Book Award (Fiction and Poetry) Winner (2022)
National Book Award (Young People's Literature) Winner (2022)
Printz Award Winner (2023)
Black Birds in the Sky by Brandy Colbert
Call Number: Young Adult F704.T92 C65 2021
Boston Globe-Horn Book Award (Nonfiction) Winner (2022)

I Talk Like a River by Jordan Scott; Sydney Smith (Illustrator)
Call Number: Juvenile PZ7.1.S336845 Ita 2020
Boston Globe-Horn Book Award (Picture Book) Winner (2021)
Schneider Family Book Award (Young Children) Winner (2021)
A Sitting in St. James by Rita Williams-Garcia
Call Number: Young Adult PZ7.W6713 Sit 2021
Boston Globe-Horn Book Award (Fiction and Poetry) Winner (2021)
From a Whisper to a Rallying Cry by Paula Yoo
Call Number: Young Adult E184.A75 Y56 2021
Boston Globe-Horn Book Award (Nonfiction) Winner (2021)

Saturday by Oge Mora (Artist)
Call Number: Juvenile PZ7.1.M6682 S28 2019
Boston Globe-Horn Book Award (Picture Book) Winner (2020)
King and the Dragonflies (Scholastic Gold) by Kacen Callender
Call Number: Juvenile PZ7.1.C317 Ki 2020
Boston Globe-Horn Book Award (Fiction and Poetry) Winner (2020)
National Book Award (Young People's Literature) Winner (2020)
Infinite Hope by Ashley Bryan (Illustrator)
Call Number: Juvenile NC975.5.B79 A2 2019
Boston Globe-Horn Book Award (Nonfiction) Winner (2020)

The Patchwork Bike by Maxine Beneba Clarke; Van T. Rudd (Illustrator)
Call Number: Juvenile PZ7 .C57 P38 2016
Boston Globe-Horn Book Award (Picture Book) Winner (2019)
The Season of Styx Malone by Kekla Magoon
Call Number: Juvenile PZ7.M2739 S86 2018
Boston Globe-Horn Book Award (Fiction and Poetry) Winner (2019)
This Promise of Change by Jo Ann Allen Boyce; Debbie Levy
Call Number: Juvenile F444.C68 B69 2019
Boston Globe-Horn Book Award (Nonfiction) Winner (2019)