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2026 Youth Media Awards - Young Adults

Each year, the American Library Association honors the best in books for kids and teens. Below is a selection of this year's Young Adult winners.

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  • Pura Belpré (Young Adult) Author Award Winner
    Book, 2025New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2025. — YF TORRE-V
  • Alex Award Winner (9 of 10)
    Book, 2025New York : Random House, [2025] — F BROWN-J
  • Alex Award Winner (8 of 10)
    Book, 2025New York, NY : Random House, [2025] — F MCKEN-M
  • Sonita

    My Fight Against Tyranny and My Escape to Freedom

    Alizadeh, Sonita,
    Alex Award Winner (7 of 10)
    Book, 2025New York, NY : Harper One, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, [2025] — B ALIZA-S 2025
  • Alex Award Winner (6 of 10)
    Book, 2025Spartanburg, SC : Hub City Press, [2025] — F ANDER-A
  • Alex Award Winner (5 of 10)
    Graphic Novel, 2025New York, NY : W. W. Norton & Company, [2025] — GN 595.7 KUPER 2025
  • Alex Award Winner (1 of 10)
    Book, 2025New York : Random House, 2025. — F FARGO-L
  • Asian /Pacific American Young Adult Literature Winner
    Book, 2025Minneapolis : Carolrhoda Lab, 2025. — YF LIU-J
  • Death in the Jungle

    Murder, Betrayal, and the Lost Dream of Jonestown

    Fleming, Candace,
    YALSA Award for Excellence in Nonfiction for Young Adults
    Book, 2025New York, NY : Anne Schwartz Books, [2025] — Y 279.99 FLEMING 2025
  • William C. Morris Award Winner
    Book, 2025New York : Atheneum Books for Young Readers, 2025. — YF DAVIS-D
  • Stonewall Book Award—Mike Morgan and Larry Romans Young Adult Literature Award
    Book, 2025Montclair [New Jersey] : Levine Querido, 2025. — YF ZELLE-V
  • Pura Belpré (Young Adult) Author Award Winner
    eBook, 2025Random House Children's Books, 2025
  • Whale Eyes

    a Memoir About Seeing and Being Seen

    Robinson, James (Filmmaker),
    Schneider Family Book Awards Winner
    Book, 2025New York : Penguin Workshop, 2025. — J 362.41 ROBINSON 2025
  • Legendary Frybread Drive-In

    Intertribal Stories

    Michael L. Printz Award Winner and American Indian Youth Literature Awards Young Adult Winner
    Book, 2025New York, NY : Heartdrum, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, [2025] — YF LEGEN