Penguin Random House ALA Midwinter Award Winners & Honorees for Secondary Education

By Luis Diaz | February 3 2020 | General

Last week, the American Library Association (ALA) Midwinter announced their 2020 literary award winners and honorees at its annual meeting. Below you can find which Penguin Random House titles appropriate for Middle School and High School students were among the winners.

To see which Elementary School titles were honored, click here.


Alex Award

The Nickel Boys
The Swallows
In Waves

Asian/Pacific American Award for Young Adult Literature

They Called Us Enemy

Stonewall Book Award – Barbara Gittings Literature Award

Cantoras

Printz Winner

Dig

CSK Author Honor

The Stars and Blackness Between Them

CSK Virginia Hamilton Award

Mildred D. Taylor (All the Days Past, All the Days to Come)

Schneider Family Book Award, Middle Grade Winner

Song for a Whale

Schneider Family Book Award Best Middle Grade Honor Book

Each Tiny Spark

Stonewall Honor

Pet

YALSA Morris Award Finalist & Asian/Pacific American Award for Literature Young Adult Honor

Frankly in Love

YALSA Excellence In Nonfiction Award & Sydney Taylor Book Award Teen Notable

A Light in the Darkness

Sydney Taylor Book Award Winner – Middle Grade

White Bird: A Wonder Story

Sydney Taylor Book Award Winner – Teen

Someday We Will Fly

Sydney Taylor Book Honor – Teen Notable

Games of Deception

Printz Honor & Robert F. Sibert Honor Book

Ordinary Hazards

Sydney Taylor Book Honor – Middle Grade Notable

Rachel’s Roses

Schneider Family Book Award for Best Teen Book

Cursed

YALSA Excellence In Nonfiction Award

Great Nijinsky

American Indian Youth Literature Award – Young Adult Honor

An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the United States for Young People

A Novel
9780385537070
In this bravura follow-up to the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award-winning The Underground Railroad, Colson Whitehead brilliantly dramatizes another strand of American history through the story of two boys sentenced to a hellish reform school in Jim Crow-era Florida.
$26.00 US
Jul 16, 2019
Hardcover
224 Pages
Doubleday

9781910620632
A tale of love, heartbreak and surfing from an important new voice in comics. In Waves is Craig Thompson's Blankets meets William Finnegan's Barbarian Days.
$18.95 US
Jun 04, 2019
Paperback
368 Pages
Nobrow

9781603094504
A stunning graphic memoir recounting actor/author/activist George Takei's childhood imprisoned within American concentration camps during World War II. Experience the forces that shaped an American icon -- and America itself -- in this gripping tale of courage, country, loyalty, and love.
$19.99 US
Jul 16, 2019
Paperback
208 Pages
Top Shelf Productions

A novel
9780525521693
Cantoras is a revolutionary new novel about five wildly different women who, in the midst of the Uruguayan dictatorship, find one another as lovers, friends, and ultimately, family.
$26.95 US
Sep 03, 2019
Hardcover
336 Pages
Knopf

9780399257308
The saga of the Logan family--made famous in the Newbery Medal-winning Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry--concludes in a long-awaited and deeply fulfilling story.
$19.99 US
Jan 07, 2020
Hardcover
496 Pages
Viking Books for Young Readers

9781524770235
In the spirit of modern-day classics like Fish in a Tree and Counting by 7s comes the story of a deaf girl's connection to a whale whose song can't be heard by his species, and the journey she takes to help him.
$17.99 US
Feb 05, 2019
Hardcover
320 Pages
Delacorte Press

9780451479723
From award-winning author Pablo Cartaya comes a deeply moving middle grade novel about a daughter and father finding their way back to each other in the face of their changing family and community.
$17.99 US
Aug 06, 2019
Hardcover
336 Pages
Kokila

9780525647072
NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALISTSTONEWALL BOOK AWARD WINNER"[A] beautiful, genre-expanding debut. . . . Pet is a nesting doll of creative possibilities." -The New York TimesThe award-winning, genre-defying novel by the New York Times bestselling author of THE DEATH OF VIVEK OJI that explores themes of identity and justice and asks: How do you share the truth when the world around you is in denial?
$17.99 US
Sep 10, 2019
Hardcover
208 Pages
Make Me a World

9781984812209
Two friends. One fake dating scheme. What could possibly go wrong?
$18.99 US
Sep 10, 2019
Hardcover
432 Pages
G.P. Putnam's Sons Books for Young Readers

Janusz Korczak, His Orphans, and the Holocaust
9781524701208
From National Book Award Finalist Albert Marrin comes the moving story of Janusz Korczak, the heroic Polish Jewish doctor who devoted his life to children, perishing with them in the Holocaust.
$19.99 US
Sep 10, 2019
Hardcover
400 Pages
Knopf Books for Young Readers

9780525645535
Inspired by her blockbuster phenomenon Wonder, R. J. Palacio makes her graphic novel debut with an unforgettable story of the power of kindness and unrelenting courage in a time of war."I was captivated by White Bird. It tells the hardest truths with honesty and calm (so that young readers can hear them). R.J.Palacio brings to life the nature of heroism and the real risks we face today." --Meg Medina, Newbery award-winning author of Mercy Suarez Changes Gears
$24.99 US
Oct 01, 2019
Hardcover
224 Pages
Knopf Books for Young Readers

A Memoir
9781629798813
"This powerful story, told with the music of poetry and the blade of truth, will help your heart grow."--Laurie Halse Anderson, author of Speak and Shout"[A] testimony and a triumph."--Jason Reynolds, author of Long Way DownIn her own voice, acclaimed author and poet Nikki Grimes explores the truth of a harrowing childhood in a compelling and moving memoir in verse.
$19.99 US
Oct 08, 2019
Hardcover
336 Pages
Wordsong

9781580899406
Winner of the Schneider Family Book Award!A debut novel for fans of The Fault in Our Stars that thoughtfully and humorously depicts teen Ricky Bloom's struggles with a recent chronic illness diagnosis. "Silverstein sheds a powerful light on disease and how managing it can bring out one’s inner warrior. A blistering coming-of-age tale that will propel readers into Ricky’s corner." -Booklist
$17.99 US
Jun 25, 2019
Hardcover
336 Pages
Charlesbridge Teen

God of Dance
9781580898003
A tragic story of a cultural icon—dance prodigy, sex symbol, LGBTQ+ pioneer—this compelling work of narrative nonfiction chronicles a life of obsessive artistry and celebrity of Vaslav Nijinsky. 
$19.99 US
Apr 09, 2019
Hardcover
120 Pages
Charlesbridge Teen

9780807049396
Spanning more than 400 years, this classic bottom-up history examines the legacy of Indigenous peoples' resistance, resilience, and steadfast fight against imperialism.
$19.95 US
Jul 23, 2019
Paperback
280 Pages
Beacon Press

9780140384512
The stunning repackage of a timeless Newbery Award Winner, with cover art by two-time Caldecott Honor Award winner Kadir Nelson!With the land to hold them together, nothing can tear the Logans apart. Why is the land so important to Cassie's family? It takes the events of one turbulent year—the year of the night riders and the burnings, the year a white girl humiliates Cassie in public simply because she is black—to show Cassie that having a place of their own is the Logan family's lifeblood. It is the land that gives the Logans their courage and pride, for no matter how others may degrade them, the Logans possess soemthing no one can take away. "[Taylor] writes not with rancor or bitterness of indignities, but with pride, strength, and respect for humanity."—The New York Times Book Review "The vivid story of a black family whose warm ties to each other and their land give them strength to defy rural Southern racism during the Depression . . . Entirely through its own internal development, the novel shows the rich inner rewards of black pride, love, and independence despite the certainty of outer defeat."—Booklist, starred review * Newbery Medal winner * A National Book Award Nominee * American Book Award Honor Book * An ALA Notable Book * A NCSS-CBC Notable Children's Trade Book in the Field of Social Studies * A Boston Globe-Horn Book Award Honor Book
$9.99 US
Nov 27, 2001
Paperback
304 Pages
Puffin Books

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