Highlighting some of the Young Adult Youth Media Award Winners for 2025:
Twenty-Four Seconds from Now by Jason Reynolds won the King Author Book Award. The Coretta Scott King Book Award recognize an African American author and illustrator of outstanding books for children and young adults.
Brownstone by Samuel Teer won the Michael L. Printz Award for Excellence In Young Adult Literature.
Compound Fracture by Andrew Joseph White, and The Deep Dark by Molly Knox Ostertag were both Printz Honor Books.
Chronically Dolores by Maya Van Wagenen won the Schneider Book Award.
Light Enough to Float by Lauren Seal and On The Bright Side by Anna Sortino both won Schneider Honors.
The Schneider Family Book Awards are for books that embody an artistic expression of the disability experience.
Author Tiffany D. Jackson won the Margaret A. Edwards Award for lifetime achievement in writing for young adults. She is the author of White Smoke, Grown, Let Me Hear A Rhyme,and other titles.
Shut Up This Is Serious by Carolina Ixta won the Belpré Young Adult Author Award. Pura Belpré Awards honoring Latino writers and illustrators whose children's and young adult books best portray, affirm and celebrate the Latino cultural experience.
Most Ardently: A Pride and Prejudice Remix by Gabe Cole Novoa won the Stonewall Honor Book Award. The Stonewall Book Awards are Mike Morgan & Larry Romans Children’s & Young Adult Literature Awards, given annually to English-language works of exceptional merit for children or teens relating to the gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender experience.
Not Like Other Girls by Meredith Adamo won the William C. Morris Award, for a debut book published by a first-time author writing for teens.
Everything We Never Had by Randy Ribay won the Asian/Pacific American Award for Literature, promoting Asian/Pacific American culture and heritage and is awarded based on literary and artistic merit.
Lunar New Year Love Story by written by Gene Luen Yang, and Dragonfruit by Makiia Lucier both won Asian/Pacific American Awards for Literature Honors.
Trajectory by Cambria Gorgon and The Forbidden Book by Sacha Lamb were both Sydney Taylor Book Award Silver Medalists. The Sydney Taylor Book Award is presented annually to outstanding books for children and teens that authentically portray the Jewish experience.
