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2026 ALA Youth Media Awards: Young Adult Books

This list features the honorees and winners for this year's best books for teens, as chosen by the awards committees of the American Library Association.

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  • Legendary Frybread Drive-in

    Intertribal Stories

    Michael Printz Award winner for excellence in literature written for young adults; Odyssey Award for Best Audiobook honoree; American Indian Youth Literature Award (Young Adult) winner
    Book, 2025New York, NY : Heartdrum, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, [2025] — YA STORIES LEGENDAR
  • Printz honoree
    Book, 20250422Flux 20250422 — BK ON ORDER
  • Printz honoree
    Book, 2025New York : Feiwel and Friends, 2025. — YA KING A
  • Printz honoree; American Indian Youth Literature Award (Young Adult) honoree
    Book, 2025New York, NY : Henry Holt and Company, 2025. — YA BOULLEY
  • Printz honoree
    Graphic Novel, 2025New York, NY : First Second, an imprint of Roaring Brook Press, a division of Holtzbrinck Publishing Holdings Limited Partnership, 2025. — YA GN VAN LIES
  • Coretta Scott King (Steptoe New Talent) winner
    Book, 20250603G.P. Putnam's Sons Books for Young Readers 20250603 — BK ON ORDER
  • Whale Eyes

    a Memoir About Seeing and Being Seen

    Robinson, James (Filmmaker),
    Schneider Family Book Award (Young Adult) winner, for books that embody an artistic expression of the disability experience ; Odyssey Award for Best Audiobook honoree
    Book, 2025New York : Penguin Workshop, 2025. — j B ROBINSON ROBINSON
  • Schneider Family Book Award (Young Adult) honoree
    Book, 2025New York, NY : Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, [2025] — YA REYES S
  • Trans History

    From Ancient Times to the Present Day

    Combs, Alex L.
    Odyssey Award for Best Audiobook (Young Adult) winner
    eAudiobook, 2025New York : Listening Library, 2025. — eAudio Libby
  • Odyssey Award for Best Audiobook (Young Adult) honoree
    eAudiobook, 2025New York : Listening Library, 2025. — eAudio Libby
  • Odyssey Award for Best Audiobook (Young Adult) honoree
    eAudiobook, 2025New York City : Scholastic Audio Books, 2025. — eAudio Libby
  • Pura Belpre Award (Young Adult Author) winner, for Latinx writers and illustrators
    Book, 20250128Alfred A. Knopf Books for Young Readers 20250128 — BK ON ORDER
  • Pura Belpre Award (Young Adult Author) honoree
    Book, 20250805Viking Books for Young Readers 20250805 — BK ON ORDER
  • Silenced Voices

    ON ORDER : Reclaiming Memories From the Guatemalan Genocide

    Leon, Pablo. ON ORDER
    Pura Belpre Award (Young Adult Author) honoree; Sibert Informational Book Award honoree
    Book, 2025New York, NY : Harper Alley, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, 2025. — BK ON ORDER
  • Pura Belpre Award (Young Adult Author) honoree
    Book, 2025New York, NY : Dial Books, [2025] — YA MENDEZ J
  • Stonewall Book Award (Young Adult) winner, for books relating to the LGBTQIA+ experience
    Book, 2025Montclair, NJ : Levine Querido, 2025. — YA ZELLER V
  • Stonewall Book Award (Young Adult) honoree
    Book, 2025New York, NY : Bloomsbury YA, 2025. — YA THOMPSON
  • Stonewall Book Award (Young Adult) honoree
    Book, 20251014Little, Brown Books for Young Readers 20251014 — BK ON ORDER