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The Walter Dean Myers Award for Excellent Kids’s Literature, aka “The Walters,” was began in 2014 by We Want Numerous Books. It’s named after acclaimed YA writer Walter Dean Myers and acknowledges excellent youngsters’s and YA books by marginalized authors. Listed here are this yr’s winners.
2025 Walter Award, Youthful Readers Class
Shark Tooth by Sherri Winston (Bloomsbury Kids’s Books)
2025 Walter Honors, Youthful Readers Class
The Creepening of Dogwood Home by Eden Royce (Walden Pond Press, HarperCollins)
2025 Walter Award, Teen Class
Black Lady You Are Atlas by Renée Watson and illustrated by Ekua Holmes (Kokila/Penguin Random Home)
2025 Walter Honors, Teen Class
A Crane Amongst Wolves by June Hur (Feiwel & Associates)