American Indian Youth Literature Award
The American Indian Youth Literature Award is given to Native American authors and illustrators of excellent books that depict their cultural heritage. It is given in odd-numbered years.
Picture Book Winner
Bowwow Powwow by Brenda J. Child, Jonathan Thunder, and Gordon Jourdain
Bowwow Powwow by Brenda J. Child, Jonathan Thunder, and Gordon Jourdain
- publisher’s website (with print excerpt and printable coloring pages)
Picture Book Honor
We Are Grateful: Otsaliheliga by Traxci Sorell and Frané Lessac
We Are Grateful: Otsaliheliga by Traxci Sorell and Frané Lessac
- This book won a Sibert Honor for nonfiction in 2019. The rules about dates are a bit different for this award.
- publisher’s website
- KidLitTV video
- book trailer
Picture Book Honor
Birdsong by Julie Flett
Birdsong by Julie Flett
Picture Book Honor
Fry Bread: a Native American FAmily Story by Kevin Noble Maillard and Juana Martinez-Neal
Fry Bread: a Native American FAmily Story by Kevin Noble Maillard and Juana Martinez-Neal
- publisher’s website (with print excerpt)
Picture Book Honor
At the Mountain's Base by Traci Sorell and Weshoyot Alvitre
At the Mountain's Base by Traci Sorell and Weshoyot Alvitre
Picture Book Honor
Raven Makes the Aleutians by Janine Gibbons
Raven Makes the Aleutians by Janine Gibbons
Middle Grade Winner
Indian No More by Charlene Willing McManis and Traci Sorell
Indian No More by Charlene Willing McManis and Traci Sorell
- publisher’s website (with print excerpt)
Middle Grade Honors
The Grizzly Mother by Htexw'ms Gyetxxw (Brett D. Huson) and Natasha Donovan
The Grizzly Mother by Htexw'ms Gyetxxw (Brett D. Huson) and Natasha Donovan
I Can Make This Promise by Christine Day
I Can Make This Promise by Christine Day
- publisher’s website (with print excerpt)
Young Adult Winner
Hearts Unbroken by Cynthia Leitich Smith
Hearts Unbroken by Cynthia Leitich Smith
Young Adult Honor
Surviving the City by Tasha Spillett-Sumner and Natasha Donovan
Surviving the City by Tasha Spillett-Sumner and Natasha Donovan
Young Adult Honor
Apple in the Middle by Dawn Quigley
Apple in the Middle by Dawn Quigley
Young Adult Honor
Reawakening Our Ancestors' Lines: Revitalizing Inuit Traditional Tattooing by Angel Hovak Johnston
Reawakening Our Ancestors' Lines: Revitalizing Inuit Traditional Tattooing by Angel Hovak Johnston
Young Adult Honor
An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States for Young People by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz
An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States for Young People by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz