Sundee T. Frazier, author of Brendan Buckley's Universe and Everything in It (Delacorte Press, an imprint of Random House Children's Books)

Shadra Strickland, author of Bird (Lee & Low Books)

Kekla Magoon, author of The Rock and the River (Aladdin, an imprint of Simon & Schuster Children’s Publishing Division)

Victoria Bond and T. R. Simon, authors of Zora and Me (Candlewick Press).

No award presented.

No award presented.

Theodore Taylor III, illustrator of When the Beat Was Born: DJ Kool Herc and the Creation of Hip Hop, written by Lagan Carrick Hill (Roaring Brook Press, a division of Holtzbrinck Publishing Holdings, Ltd.

Jason Reynolds, author of When I Was the Greatest (Atheneum Books for Young Readers, an imprint of Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing Division).

Ronald L. Smith, author of Hoodoo (Clarion Books, an imprint of Houghton Mifflin Harcourt) Ekua Holms, illustrator of Voice of Freedom: Fannie Lou Hamer, Spirit of the Civil Rights Movement (Candlewick Press).

Nicola Yoon, author of The Sun Is Also a Star (Delacorte Press, and imprint of Random House Children's Books, a division of Penguin Random House LLC)

David Barclay Moore, author of The Stars Beneath Our Feet (Alfred A. Knopf, an imprint of Random House Children’s Books, a division of Penguin Random House LLC.) Charly Palmer, illustrator of Mama Africa! How Makeba Spread Hope with Her Song (Farrar Straus Giroux Books for Young Readers, an imprint of Macmillan Publishing Group, LLC.)

Tiffany D. Jackson, author of Monday's Not Coming (Katherine Tegen Books, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers) Oge Mora, illustrator of Thank You, Omu (Little, Brown Young Readers)

Tracy Deonn, author of Legendborn (Margaret K. McElderry Books, an imprint of Simon and Schuster Children’s Publishing Division) No illustrator award presented

Amber McBride, author of Me (Moth) (Feiwell and Friends, an imprint of Macmillan Publishing Group) Regis and Kahran Bethencourt, illustrators of The Me I Choose to Be (Little, Brown, and Company)

Jas Hammonds, author of We Deserve Monuments, (Roaring Brook Press, a division of Macmillan Children's Publishing Group) Janelle Washington, illustrator of Choosing Brave: How Mamie Till-Mobley and Emmett Till Sparked the Civil Rights Movement (Roaring Brook Press, a division of Macmillan Children's Publishing Group)

Jade Adia, author of There Goes the Neighborhood, (Hyperion, an imprint of Buena Vista Books, Inc.) Briana Mukodiri Uchendu, illustrator of We Could Fly (Candelwick Press)

Craig Kofi Farmer, author of Kwame Crashes the Underworld, (Roaring Brook Press, a division of Holtzbrinck Publishing) Jamiel Law, illustrator of Jimmy's Rhythm & Blues: The Extraordinary Life of James Baldwin (Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers)

Alicia D. Williams, author of Genesis Begins Again (Atheneum Books for Young Readers, an imprint of Simon & Schuster Children’s Publishing Division) April Harrison, illustrator of What is Given from the Heart (Schwartz & Wade Books, an imprint of Random House Children’s Books, a division of Penguin Random House LLC.)

Martha Southgate, author of Another Way to Dance (Delacorte)

No award presented