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2025 Award Winners for Teens

Winners and nominees for teens from the American Library Association's 2025 Youth Media Awards.

Big Jim and the white boy : an American classic reimagined

Walker, David

Compound fracture

White, Andrew Joseph

Forbidden book

Lamb, Sacha

Aisle nine

Cho, Ian X

The witch of Colchis

Hewlett, Rosie

Libertad

Zaldívar, Bessie Flores

Night owls

Vishny, A. R

Twenty-four seconds from now : a love story

Reynolds, Jason

Brownstone

Teer, Samuel

On the bright side

Sortino, Anna

Wild dreamers

Engle, Margarita

A greater goal : the epic battle for equal pay in women's soccer-and beyond

Rusch, Elizabeth

The witchstone

Neff, Henry H

Time and time again

Greenfield, Chatham

Not like other girls

Adamo, Meredith

The wilderness of girls

Franklin, Madeline Claire

Dead things are closer than they appear

Wasley, Robin

I feel awful, thanks

Pickle, Lara

I was a teenage slasher

Jones, Stephen Graham

The unboxing of a Black girl

Shanté, Angela

Canto contigo : a novel

Garza Villa, Jonny

The deep dark

Ostertag, Molly Knox

Navigating with you

Whitley, Jeremy

Beautiful people : my thirteen truths about disability

Blake, Melissa

Trajectory

Gordon, Cambria

Daughters of Shandong

Chung, Eve J

The Enigma girls : how ten teenagers broke ciphers, kept secrets, and helped win World War II

Fleming, Candace

Homebody

Parish, Theo

Chronically Dolores

Van Wagenen, Maya

Rising from the ashes : Los Angeles, 1992 : Edward Jae Song Lee, Latasha Harlins, Rodney King, and a city on fire

Yoo, Paula

Road home

Ogle, Rex

Shackled : a tale of wronged kids, rogue judges, and a town that looked away

Cooper, Candy J.

Bright red fruit

Elhillo, Safia

The dead cat tail assassins

Clark, P. Djèlí

Woman, life, freedom

Satrapi, Marjane

How to solve your own murder : a novel

Perrin, Kristen

Most ardently : a Pride & Prejudice remix

Novoa, Gabe Cole

Shut up, this is serious

Ixta, Carolina

The awakening of Malcolm X : a novel

Shabazz, Ilyasah

Grown : a novel

Jackson, Tiffany D