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2024 Awards

Winners
Picture Book
Forever Cousins

Picture Book, Winner, 2024

2024
A Letter from Bob

Picture Book, Winner, 2024

Middle School
We Still Belong

Middle School, Winner, 2024

Young Adult
Rez Ball

Young Adult, Winner, 2024


Honor Books
Young Adult
Running with Changing Woman

Written by Lorinda Martinez (Diné) Cover design by Brittany Gene (Navajo) Publisher Salina Bookshelf Inc. 2023

Young Adult
Man Made Monsters

Written by Andrea L. Rogers (Cherokee Nation) Illustrations by Jeff Edwards (Cherokee Nation) Published by Levine Querido, distributed by Chronicle Books 2022

Young Adult
Funeral Songs for Dying Girls

Written by Cherie Dimaline (Métis) Publisher Tundra Books, an imprint of Tundra Book Group, a division of Penguin Random House of Canada Limited 2023

Middle School
She Persisted: Maria Tallchief

Written by Christine Day (Upper Skagit) Illustrated by Alexandra Boiger and Gillian Flint Publisher Philomel Books, an imprint of Penguin Random House 2021

Middle School
She Persisted: Wilma Mankiller

Written by Traci Sorell (Cherokee Nation) Illustrated by Alexandra Boiger and Gillian Flint Publisher Philomel Books, an imprint of Penguin Random House 2022

Middle School
She Persisted: Deb Haaland

Written by Laurel Goodluck (Mandan & Hidatsa and Tsimshian) Illustrated by Alexandra Boiger and Gillian Flint Publisher Philomel Books, an imprint of Penguin Random House 2023

Picture Book
Remember

Written by Joy Harjo (Mvskoke Nation) Illustrated by Michaela Goade (Tlingit Nation) Publisher Random House Studio, an imprint of Random House Children’s Books, a division of Penguin Random House 2023

Picture Book
Berry Song

Written and Illustrated by Michaela Goade (Tlingit Nation) Publisher Little, Brown and Compan, a division of Hachette Book Group 2022

Picture Book
Contenders

Written by Traci Sorell (Cherokee Nation) Illustrated by Arigon Starr (Kickapoo Tribe) Publisher Kokila, an imprint of Penguin Random House 2023

Picture Book
Celebration

Written by Lily Hope (Tlingit) Illustrated by Kelsey Mata Foote (Tlingit) Publisher Sealaska Heritage Institute

Young Adult
Warrior Girl Unearthed

Written by Angeline Boulley (Sault Ste. Marie Tribe of Chippewa Indians) Jacket illustrations by Michaela Goade (Tlingit Nation) Published by Henry Holt and Company, a trademark of Macmillan Publishing Group 2023

Middle School
Eagle Drums

Written and illustrated by Nasuġraq Rainey Hopson (Iñupiaq) Publisher by Roaring Brook Press 2023

Picture Book
Rock Your Mocs

Written by Laurel Goodluck (Mandan & Hidatsa and Tsimshian) Illustrated by Madelyn Goodnight (Chickasaw Nation) Publisher Heartdrum, an imprint of HaperCollins Publishers 2023

Middle School
Mascot

Written by Traci Sorell (Cherokee Nation) and Charles Waters Jacket Illustration by Nicole Neidhardt (Navajo) Publisher by Charlesbridge 2023

Middle School
Jo Jo Makoons: Snow Day

By Dawn Quigley (Turtle Mountain Band of Ojibwe) Illustrated by Tara Audibert (Wolastoqey) Publisher Heartdrum, An Imprint of HaperCollins Publishers 2023

Middle School
Jo Jo Makoons: Fancy Pants

By Dawn Quigley (Turtle Mountain Band of Ojibwe) Illustrated by Tara Audibert (Wolastoqey) Publisher by Heartdrum, An Imprint of HaperCollins Publishers 2022

Young Adult
Heroes of the Water Monster

Written by Brian Young (Navajo Nation) Jacket art by Shonto Begay (Diné) Publisher Heartdrum, an imprint of HaperCollins Publishers 2023