Best of Kids' and YA 2023

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For Younger Kids

The Search for the Giant Arctic Jellyfish

Chloe Savage, 2023

There Was a Party for Langston

Jason Reynolds, 2023

My Head Has a Bellyache

And More Nonsense for Mischievous Kids and Immature Grown-Ups

Chris Harris, 2023

All the Beating Hearts

Julie Fogliano, 2023

Maribel's Year

Michelle Sterling, 2023

Mythwakers

Kate Ristau, 2023

Pigs Can't Look Up

Vincent D’Onofrio, 2023

Remember

Joy Harjo, 2023

The Tree and the River

Aaron Becker, 2023

Gray Fox in the Moonlight

Isaac Peterson, 2023

Evergreen

Matthew Cordell, 2023

The Indestructible Tom Crean

Heroic Explorer of the Antarctic

Jennifer Thermes, 2023

For Older Kids

Elf Dog and Owl Head

M. T. Anderson, 2023

The Dark Lord's Daughter

Patricia C. Wrede, 2023

The Eyes and the Impossible

Dave Eggers, 2023

Mexikid

Pedro Martín, 2023

The Moth Keeper

(A Graphic Novel)

K. O'Neill, 2023

Billie Blaster and the Robot Army from Outer Space

Laini Taylor, 2023

Out There (A Graphic Novel)

Seaerra Miller, 2023

Simon Sort of Says

A First Time for Everything

Dan Santat, 2023

Percy Jackson and the Olympians: The Chalice of the Gods

Rick Riordan, 2023

For Young Adults

Those Who Saw the Sun

African American Oral Histories from the Jim Crow South

Jaha N. Avery, 2023

Painted Devils

Margaret Owen, 2023

Champion of Fate

Kendare Blake, 2023

The Spirit Bares Its Teeth

Andrew Joseph White, 2023

Brooms

Jasmine Walls, 2023

Warrior Girl Unearthed

Angeline Boulley, 2023

Phoebe's Diary

Phoebe Wahl, 2023

Gwen & Art Are Not in Love

Lex Croucher, 2023

Beholder

Ryan La Sala, 2023

The Hunting Moon

Susan Dennard, 2023

Enter the Body

Joy McCullough, 2024