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Fiction Picturebook:
Winner: Today Is Differentby Doua Moua, author, and Kim Holt, illustrator (Carolrhoda Books)
Honor: Not So Small by Pat Zietlow Miller, author, and Paola Escobar, illustrator (Quill Tree Books)
 
2023 Additional Recommended Reading:
• Nour's Secret Library by Wafa Tarnowska and Vali Mintzi
• Something Happened to My Dad: A Story about Immigration and Family Separation by Ann Hazzard, Ph.D., Vivianne Aponte Rivera, MD, et.al.
• The Tale of the Whale by Karen Swann and illustrated by Padmacandra
• Your Special Voice by Temi Adamolekun and illustrated by Keisha Okafor
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Fiction:
Winner: Attack of the Black Rectangles by A. S. King, author (Scholastic Press)
Honor: I Rise by Marie Arnold (Versify)
Honor: Two Degrees by Alan Gratz (Scholastic Press)
  
2023 Additional Recommended Reading:
• Haven Jacobs Saves the Planet by Barbara Dee
• My Good Man by Eric Gansworth
• Other Side of the Tracks by Charity Alyse
• Survive the Dome by Kosoko Jackson
• Unfadeable: Know Your Power. Fight the Power by Maurice Braddus
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Nonfiction Picturebook:
Winner: If You're a Kid Like Gavin: The True Story of a Young Trans Activist by Gavin Grimm and Kyle Luckoff, authors, and J. Lang, illustrator (Katherine Tegen Books)
Honor: Because of You, John Lewis: The True Story of a Remarkable Friendship by Andrea Davis Pinkney, author, and Keith Henry Brown, illustrator (Scholastic Press)
Honor: More Than Peach: Changing the World... One Crayon at a Time by Bellen Woodard, author, and Fanny Liem, illustrator (Scholastic, Inc.)
  
2023 Additional Recommended Reading:
• City Streets Are for People by Andrea Curtis and Emma Fitzgerald
• Count on Us! Climate Activists from One to a Billion by Gabi Snyder and Sarah Walsh
• (The) Global Ocean by Rochelle Strauss and Natasha Donovan
• Harriet's Ruffled Feathers: The Woman Who Saved Millions of Birds by Joy McCullough and Romina Galotta
• It's Up to Us: Building a Brighter Future for Nature, People, & Planet by His Magesty King Charles III, Christopher Lloyd, et. al.
• (A) Life of Service: The Story of Senator Tammy Duckworth by Christina Soontornvat and Dow Phumiruk
• (The) Mother of a Movement: Jeanne Manford -- Ally, Activist, and Co-founder of PFLAGby Rob Sanders and Sam Kalda
• Phenomenal AOC: The Roots and Rise of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez by Anika Aldamuy-Denise and Loris Lora
• Sanctuary: Kip Tieman and Rosie's Place, the Nation's First Shelter for Women by Christine McDonnell and Victoria Tentler-Krylov
• Stacey Abrams: Lift Every Voice by Sarah Warren and illustrated by Monica Mikai
• Stand Up! 10 Mighty Women Who Made a Change by Brittney Cooper and Cathy Ann Johnson
• To Change a Planet by Christine Soontornvat and Rahele Jomepour Bell
• (The) Waiting Place: When Home Is Lost and a New One Not Yet Found by Dina Nayeri and Anna Bosch Miralpeix
• When the Schools Shut Down: A Young Girl's Story of Virginia's "Lost Generation" and the Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka Decision by Yolanda Gladden, Dr. Tamara Pizzoli, et. al.
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Nonfiction:
Winner: (The) Antiraist Kid: A Book about Identity, Justice, and Activism by Tiffany Jewell, author, and Nicole Miles, illustrator (Versify)
Honor: (This) Book Will Save the Planet by Dany Sigwalt and Aurelia Durand (Frances Lincoln Children's Books, Illustrated Edition)
Honor: Evicted: The Struggle for the Right to Vote by Alice Faye Duncan and Charly Palmer (Calkins Creek)
Honor: Kids Fight Climate Change: Act Now to Be a #2minutesuperhero by Martin Dorey (Candlewick)
Honor: We're in This Together: A Young Reader's Edition of We Are Not Here to Be Bystanders by Linda Sarsour (Salaam Reads/Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers)
    
2023 Additional Recommended Reading:
• Bernice Sandler and the Fight for Title IX by Jen Barton and Sarah Green
• Better Than We Found It: Converations to Help Save the World by Frederick Joseph and Porche Joseph
• Me and White Supremacy: How You Can Fight Racism and Change the World Today! (Young Adult Version) by Layla F. Saad
• Once I Was You: Finding My Voice and Passing the Mic by Maria Hinojosa
• On the Move: Home Is Where You Find It by Michael Rosen
• Severn Speaks Out by Severn Cullis-Suzuki, Ana Sua´rez, et. al.
• Teen Trailblazers: 30 Daring Boys Whose Dreams Changed the World by Jennifer Calvert and Vesna Asanovic
Committee Members
This year's winners were selected by the following committee members:
Char Moffit, Ph.D. (Co-Chair), Assistant Professor, Literacy Education, School of Education, California State University (CSU), Chico.
Judith Dunkerly, Ph.D (Co-Chair), Associate Professor, Old Dominion University, Norfolk, VA.
Patricia Dean, Ph.D., Professor Emeritus, Children's Literature, Salisbury University, Wicomico County, MD.
Sharon Hayes, Ph.D., Associate Professor, West Virginia University, Morgantown, WV.
Jasmyn Jones, Ph.D., Literacy Education Lecturer, Old Dominion University, Norfolk, VA.
Irene Korber, Senior Assistant Librarian, California State University (CSU), Chico.
Tom Smith, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Utah Valley University, Orem, UT.
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