Stonewall Book Awards - Mike Morgan & Larry Romans Children’s & Young Adult Literature Award

About the Stonewall Book Awards - Mike Morgan & Larry Romans Children’s & Young Adult Literature Award The Stonewall Book Awards are presented to English language books that have exceptional merit relating to the LGBTQIA+ experience.

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2023 Winner(s)

“Love, Violet” by Charlotte Sullivan Wilde and illustrated by Charlene Chua (Farrar Straus Giroux Books for Young Readers, a Division of Macmillan Children’s Publishing Group)

“When the Angels Left the Old Country” by Sacha Lamb (Arthur A. Levine, an imprint of Levine Querido)

2023 Honor(s)

“I Kissed Shara Wheeler” by Casey McQuiston (Wednesday Books)

“In the Key of Us” by Mariama J. Lockington (Farrar Straus Giroux Books for Young Readers, a Division of Macmillan Children’s Publishing Group)

“Kapaemahu” by Hinaleimoana Wong-Kalu, Dean Hamer, and Joe Wilson, illustrated by Daniel Sousa (Kokila, an imprint of Penguin Random House)

“Kings of B’More” by R. Eric Thomas (Kokila, an imprint of Penguin Random House)

“Man o’War” by Cory McCarthy (Dutton Books, an imprint of Penguin Random House)

“The Real Riley Mayes” written and illustrated by Rachel Elliott (Balzer + Bray, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, and HarperAlley, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers)

“Strong” by Rob Kearney and Eric Rosswood, illustrated by Nidhi Chanani (Little, Brown and Company, a division of Hachette Book Group, Inc.)

“The Summer of Bitter and Sweet” by Jen Ferguson (Heartdrum, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers)