2019 CYBILS Award Winners
Today is the day, after a long process with two rounds of judging, today is the day the 2019 CYBILS Award Winners are announced. I waited a little longer than usual this morning so that I could post the awards today! If you want to learn more about the CYBILS, I wrote a post about them last year or check out their website. And without further ado…
2019 CYBILS Award Winners
- Easy Readers and Early Chapter Books
- Easy Reader – Yasmin the Superhero by Saadia Faruqi, illustrated by Hatem Aly
- Early Chapter Book – Frankie Sparks and the Class Pet by Megan Frazer Blakemore, illustrated by Nadja Sarell
- Elementary/Middle-Grade Nonfiction
- Elementary – Nine Months: Before a Baby Is Born by Miranda Paul, illustrated by Jason Chin
- Middle School – It’s Trevor Noah: Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood by Trevor Noah
- Elementary/Middle-Grade Speculative Fiction – Tristan Strong Punches a Hole In the Sky by Kwame Mbalia
- Fiction Picture Books/Board Books
- Picture Books – One Fox: A Counting Book Thriller by Kate Read
- Board Books – Jump! by Tatsuhide Matsuoka
- Graphic Novels
- Elementary/Middle Grade – New Kid by Jerry Craft
- Young Adult – This PLace: 150 Years Retold by David A. Robertson, Jen Storm, Katherena Vermette, Niigaanwewidam James Sinclair, Rachel Qitsualik-Tinsley, Richard Van Camp, SEan Qitsualik-Tinsley, and Sonny Assu
- Junior/Senior High Nonfiction
- Junior High – The First Dinosaur: How Science Solved the Greatest Mystery on Earth by Ian Lendler
- Senior High – Playlist: The Rebels and Revolutionaries of Sound by James Rhodes, illustrated by Martin O’Neill
- Middle-Grade Fiction – The Remarkable Journey of Coyote Sunrise by Dan Gemeinhart
- Poetry – Ink Knows No Borders: Poems of the Immigrant and Refugee Experience edited by Patrice Vecchione and Alyssa Raymond
- Young Adult Fiction – Heroine by Mindy McGinnis
- Young Adult Speculative Fiction – Fireborne by Rosaria Munda
