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Primary Fiction
Winner: Isabel and Her Colores Go to School.
Alexandra Alessandri. Ill. Courtney Dawson. Sleeping
Bear Press.
Honor: Archie Celebrates Diwali. Mitali Banerjee
Ruths. Ill. Parwinder Singh. Charlesbridge.
Primary Nonfiction
Winner: Mimic Makers: Biomimicry Inventors Inspired
by Nature. Kristen Nordstrom. Ill. Paul Boston.
Charlesbridge.
Honor: Areli Is a Dreamer: A True Story by Areli
Morales, a DACA Recipient. Areli Morales. Ill. Luisa
Uribe. Random House Children’s Books.
Intermediate Fiction
Winner: Starfish. Lisa Fipps. Penguin Young Readers.
Honor: Barefoot Dreams of Petra Luna. Alda P. Dobbs.
Intermediate Nonfiction
Winner: It Takes Guts: How Your Body Turns Food Into Fuel
(and Poop). Jennifer Gardy. Ill. Belle Wuthrich. Greystone
Kids.
Honor: Orca Rescue! The True Story of an Orphaned Orca
Named Springer. Donna Sandstrom. Ill. Sarah Burwash. Kids
Can Press.
Honor: Why Longfellow Lied: The Truth About Paul Revere’s
Midnight Ride. Jeff Lantos. Charlesbridge.
Young Adult Fiction
Winner: Both Sides Now. Peyton Thomas. Penguin Random
House Young Readers.
Honor: Where I Belong. Marcia Argueta Mickelson. Lerner.
Young Adult Nonfiction
Winner: No Way, They Were Gay?: Hidden Lives and Secret
Loves (Queer History Project). LeeWind. Lerner.
Honor: We Are Not Broken. George M. Johnson. Little,
Brown Books for Young Readers.
Winners of the ILA 2022 Book Awards Announced
ILA recently announced the winners of the ILA 2022 Children’s and Young Adults’ Book Awards, highlighting
both fiction and nonfiction works that exemplify the best from rising stars in the literary field. The annual awards
program recognizes newly published authors who exhibit exceptional promise in the children’s and young
adults’ book fields; eligible titles must be the author’s first or second.
The 2022 award winners are as follows:
Building Emotional Literacy Through Dungeons & Dragons, an ILA Webinar on July 12, 5:00 p.m.–6:00 p.m.
Leveling Up Reluctant Readers With Dungeons & Dragons, an ILA Webinar on August 9, 5:00 p.m.–6:00 p.m.
Literacy Coaching for SEL, an ILA Webinar featuring Crystal D. Cook and J. Helen Perkins on August 24, 5:00 p.m.–6:00 p.m.
In case you missed them, the following two events are available on demand:
ILA Intensive: Coaching and Literacy Leadership, featuring Jacy Ippolito, Rita Bean, Adam Brieske-Ulenski, Pamela A. Mason,
and Benjamin Piper
Censorship in School Libraries Across the Globe, a free ILA Webinar featuring Valérie Glass, Lucy Santos Green,
Annette M. Kiberu, Jennisen Lucas, Molly Ness, and Julia E. Torres
For more information on any of these events, visit literacyworldwide.org/digitalevents.
Digital Events