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.
Details
Frequency: Annual
Award Information
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Most Ardently: A Pride and Prejudice Remix
2025 - Honor(s) |
2025 - Honor(s) |
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Navigating with You
2025 - Honor(s) |
2025 - Honor(s) |
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Road Home
2025 - Honor(s) |
2025 - Honor(s) |
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Time and Time Again
2025 - Honor(s) |
2025 - Honor(s) |
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Lunar Boy
2025 - Winner(s) |
2025 - Winner(s) |
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Canto Contigo
2025 - Winner(s) |
2025 - Winner(s) |
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Marley's Pride
2025 - Honor(s) |
2025 - Honor(s) |
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Murray Out of Water
2025 - Honor(s) |
2025 - Honor(s) |
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The Flicker
2025 - Honor(s) |
2025 - Honor(s) |
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What I Must Tell the World: How Lorraine Hansberry Found Her Voice
2025 - Honor(s) |
2025 - Honor(s) |
| Title | Year | |
|---|---|---|
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Ander & Santi Were Here
2024 - Honor(s) |
2024 - Honor(s) |
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Imogen, Obviously
2024 - Honor(s) |
2024 - Honor(s) |
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The Long Run
2024 - Honor(s) |
2024 - Honor(s) |
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The Spirit Bares Its Teeth
2024 - Honor(s) |
2024 - Honor(s) |
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Only This Beautiful Moment
2024 - Winner(s) |
2024 - Winner(s) |
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Cross My Heart and Never Lie
2024 - Winner(s) |
2024 - Winner(s) |
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Desert Queen
2024 - Honor(s) |
2024 - Honor(s) |
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Not He or She, I'm Me
2024 - Honor(s) |
2024 - Honor(s) |
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The Otherwoods
2024 - Honor(s) |
2024 - Honor(s) |
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Stars in Their Eyes
2024 - Honor(s) |
2024 - Honor(s) |
| Title | Year | |
|---|---|---|
| “The Real Riley Mayes” written and illustrated by Rachel Elliott
2023 - Honor(s) |
2023 - Honor(s) | |
| “Strong” by Rob Kearney and Eric Rosswood, illustrated by Nidhi Chanani
2023 - Honor(s) |
2023 - Honor(s) | |
| “I Kissed Shara Wheeler” by Casey McQuiston
2023 - Honor(s) |
2023 - Honor(s) | |
| “Kings of B’More” by R. Eric Thomas
2023 - Honor(s) |
2023 - Honor(s) | |
| “Man o’War” by Cory McCarthy
2023 - Honor(s) |
2023 - Honor(s) | |
| “The Summer of Bitter and Sweet” by Jen Ferguson
2023 - Honor(s) |
2023 - Honor(s) | |
| “When the Angels Left the Old Country” by Sacha Lamb
2023 - Winner(s) |
2023 - Winner(s) | |
| “Love, Violet” by Charlotte Sullivan Wilde and illustrated by Charlene Chua
2023 - Winner(s) |
2023 - Winner(s) | |
| “In the Key of Us” by Mariama J. Lockington
2023 - Honor(s) |
2023 - Honor(s) | |
| “Kapaemahu” by Hinaleimoana Wong-Kalu, Dean Hamer, and Joe Wilson, illustrated by Daniel Sousa
2023 - Honor(s) |
2023 - Honor(s) |
| Title | Year | |
|---|---|---|
| “Too Bright to See” by Kyle Lukoff
2022 - Winner(s) |
2022 - Winner(s) | |
| “Almost Flying,” written by Jake Maia Arlow
2022 - Honor(s) |
2022 - Honor(s) | |
| "The Darkness Outside Us,'' written by Eliot Schrefer
2022 - Honor(s) |
2022 - Honor(s) | |
| “Grandad’s Camper,” illustrated and written by Harry Woodgate
2022 - Honor(s) |
2022 - Honor(s) |
| Title | Year | |
|---|---|---|
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Felix Ever After
2021 - Honor(s) |
2021 - Honor(s) |
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You Should See Me in a Crown
2021 - Honor(s) |
2021 - Honor(s) |
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Beetle & The Hollowbones
2021 - Honor(s) |
2021 - Honor(s) |
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Darius the Great Deserves Better
2021 - Honor(s) |
2021 - Honor(s) |
| Title | Year | |
|---|---|---|
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When Aidan Became a Brother
2020 - Winner(s) |
2020 - Winner(s) |
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The Black Flamingo
2020 - Winner(s) |
2020 - Winner(s) |
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Pet
2020 - Honor(s) |
2020 - Honor(s) |
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Like a Love Story
2020 - Honor(s) |
2020 - Honor(s) |
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The Best at It
2020 - Honor(s) |
2020 - Honor(s) |
| Title | Year | |
|---|---|---|
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Hurricane Child
2019 - Winner(s) |
2019 - Winner(s) |
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Julián Is a Mermaid
2019 - Winner(s) |
2019 - Winner(s) |
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Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World
2019 - Honor(s) |
2019 - Honor(s) |
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Picture Us in the Light
2019 - Honor(s) |
2019 - Honor(s) |
| Title | Year | |
|---|---|---|
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Little & Lion
2018 - Winner(s) “Little & Lion” by Brandy Colbert examines the tenuous bond between Suzette and her older brother Lionel who has been diagnosed with bipolar disorder. While... |
2018 - Winner(s) |
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The 57 Bus
2018 - Winner(s) In “The 57 Bus,” journalist Dashka Slater chronicles the true story of an agender teen who is set on fire while riding a bus and... |
2018 - Winner(s) |
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As the Crow Flies
2018 - Honor(s) In “As the Crow Flies,” Melanie Gillman’s rich colored-pencil graphic novel, 13-year-old Charlie is the only black queer girl on a Christian camping trip that... |
2018 - Honor(s) |
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The Gentleman’s Guide to Vice and Virtue
2018 - Honor(s) A bisexual rake embarks on a grand tour of 18th century Europe accompanied by his scholarly sister and his best friend, with whom he's secretly... |
2018 - Honor(s) |
| Title | Year | |
|---|---|---|
| Magnus Chase and the Gods of Asgard: The Hammer of Thor
2017 - Winner(s) |
2017 - Winner(s) | |
| If I Was Your Girl
2017 - Winner(s) |
2017 - Winner(s) | |
| When the Moon Was Ours
2017 - Honor(s) |
2017 - Honor(s) | |
| Unbecoming
2017 - Honor(s) |
2017 - Honor(s) | |
| Pride: Celebrating Diversity & Community
2017 - Honor(s) |
2017 - Honor(s) |
| Title | Year | |
|---|---|---|
| The Porcupine of Truth
2016 - Winner(s) |
2016 - Winner(s) | |
| Sex is a Funny Word: a Book about Bodies, Feelings, and YOU
2016 - Honor(s) |
2016 - Honor(s) | |
| Wonders of the Invisible World
2016 - Honor(s) |
2016 - Honor(s) | |
| George
2016 - Winner(s) |
2016 - Winner(s) |
| Title | Year | |
|---|---|---|
| This Day in June
2015 - Winner(s) |
2015 - Winner(s) | |
| Beyond Magenta: Transgender teens speak out
2015 - Honor(s) |
2015 - Honor(s) | |
| I’ll Give You the Sun
2015 - Honor(s) |
2015 - Honor(s) | |
| Morris Micklewhite and the Tangerine Dress
2015 - Honor(s) |
2015 - Honor(s) |
| Title | Year | |
|---|---|---|
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Branded by the Pink Triangle
2014 - Honor(s) |
2014 - Honor(s) |
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Two Boys Kissing
2014 - Honor(s) |
2014 - Honor(s) |
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Fat Angie
2014 - Winner(s) In “Fat Angie,” e.E. Charlton-Trujillo tells the powerful story of Angie, who is seen by everyone as only her weight. Struggling with her image and... |
2014 - Winner(s) |
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Beautiful Music for Ugly Children
2014 - Winner(s) Gabe has a local community radio program and is worried his listeners will discover he is transgender. Turning to music and an unlikely friend for... |
2014 - Winner(s) |
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Better Nate than Ever
2014 - Honor(s) |
2014 - Honor(s) |
| Title | Year | |
|---|---|---|
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Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe
2013 - Winner(s) |
2013 - Winner(s) |
| Drama
2013 - Honor(s) |
2013 - Honor(s) | |
| Gone, Gone, Gone
2013 - Honor(s) |
2013 - Honor(s) | |
| Sparks
2013 - Honor(s) |
2013 - Honor(s) | |
| October Mourning
2013 - Honor(s) |
2013 - Honor(s) |
| Title | Year | |
|---|---|---|
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Putting Makeup on the Fat Boy
2012 - Winner(s) |
2012 - Winner(s) |
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Money Boy
2012 - Honor(s) |
2012 - Honor(s) |
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a + e 4ever
2012 - Honor(s) |
2012 - Honor(s) |
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Pink
2012 - Honor(s) |
2012 - Honor(s) |
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with or without you
2012 - Honor(s) |
2012 - Honor(s) |
The Stonewall Book Awards of the American Library Association are given annually to English-language books of exceptional merit relating to the LGBTQIA+ experience. The awards are given to works published in the United States in the previous calendar year, although works published elsewhere may be considered. Re-printings of previously published books will not be considered. Substantially changed new editions of previously published works and English translations of foreign-language books are eligible for the awards.
Awards are made in three categories: adult literature, adult nonfiction and children's and young adult literature. The adult literature category encompasses novels, short stories, poetry, and drama. The adult nonfiction category includes biography, history, criticism, reference works, fine arts, and other traditional nonfiction genres. Anthologies comprised of both nonfiction and literary pieces will be categorized by whichever form predominates. The children’s and young adult literature includes both fiction and non-fiction.
Anyone may suggest a title to the Stonewall Book Awards - Children’s and Young Adult Committee members for consideration. However, the publisher of a proposed title, agents or representatives of the author, or anyone else who may stand to gain directly from the nomination of the book should disclose this information via the online form. All suggestions must be submitted by the deadline of December 1. Suggest a Title for the Stonewall Book Awards - Children's & Young Adult |
The awards, which consist of a commemorative plaque and a cash stipend, are presented to the winning authors or editors at the ALA Annual Conference, held in June or July. The amount of the cash stipend to be awarded is determined annually by the Rainbow Round Table of the American Library Association.
Awardees are expected to receive their award and give an acceptance speech during the Stonewall Book Awards Brunch during the ALA Annual Conference.
The Chair will notify the winning authors and publishers as soon as the winners have been decided. The Chair will also notify the publishers of the Stonewall Honor Books. In addition to the Chair of the Rainbow Round Table, the Chair will notify the American Library Association of the winners at the ALA's LibLearnX Conference, specifically the ALA Public Awareness Office and the ALA Office for Diversity, Literacy, and Outreach Services. In collaboration with the ALA ODLOS office, the Book Awards Chair shall prepare a press release announcing the winners and finalists. Copies of this announcement shall be sent to the editor of the GLBT News, the Rainbow Board list, the GLBTRT-list, the ALA Public Awareness Office, library and book selling periodicals, and other LGBTQIA+ publishers, booksellers, periodicals, and newspapers.
