Walter Dean Myers Award for Outstanding Children’s Literature, 2016-2024
Resources for the titles recognized by this award since its inception in 2016 -- honoring books that feature a diverse main character or address diversity in a meaningful way
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![Walter Dean Myers Award for Outstanding Children’s Literature, 2016-2024](https://cdn.teachingbooks.net/images/awards/58.jpg)
- 1,687 Resources including
- 255 Videos
- 99 Book Readings
- 151 Lesson Plans
- List Analysis Report
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![All American Boys](https://cdn.teachingbooks.net/content/ingram_images_hi/0/1481463330.jpg)
![Long Way Down](https://cdn.teachingbooks.net/content/ingram_images_hi/5/1481438255.jpg)
![Poet X, The](https://cdn.teachingbooks.net/content/ingram_images_hi/5/0062662805.jpg)
![Firekeeper's Daughter](https://cdn.teachingbooks.net/media/bookimages/covers/73080_hi.jpg)
![When Stars Are Scattered](https://cdn.teachingbooks.net/content/ingram_images_hi/8/0525553908.jpg)
When Stars Are Scattered
by Victoria Jamieson, Omar Mohamed, and Iman Geddy
(Winner, 2021)
56 Resources20 Awards
![Revolution in Our Time: The Black Panther Party's Promise to the People](https://cdn.teachingbooks.net/content/ingram_images_hi/3/1536214183.jpg)
Revolution in Our Time: The Black Panther Party's Promise to the People
by Kekla Magoon
(Honor, 2022)
49 Resources14 Awards
![Night Diary, The](https://cdn.teachingbooks.net/content/ingram_images_hi/5/0735228515.jpg)
![Punching the Air](https://cdn.teachingbooks.net/content/ingram_images_hi/7/0062996487.jpg)
![Last Night at the Telegraph Club](https://cdn.teachingbooks.net/content/ingram_images_hi/7/0525555277.jpg)
![March Book Three](https://cdn.teachingbooks.net/content/ingram_images_hi/4/1603094024.jpg)
![X: A Novel](https://cdn.teachingbooks.net/content/ingram_images_hi/9/0763690929.jpg)
![Sun Is Also a Star, The](https://cdn.teachingbooks.net/content/ingram_images_hi/9/0553496689.jpg)
![Other Words for Home](https://cdn.teachingbooks.net/content/ingram_images_hi/0/0062747800.jpg)
![Ghost Boys](https://cdn.teachingbooks.net/content/ingram_images_hi/5/0316262285.jpg)
![With the Fire on High](https://cdn.teachingbooks.net/content/ingram_images_hi/0/006266283X.jpg)
![Enchanted Air: Two Cultures, Two Wings: A Memoir](https://cdn.teachingbooks.net/content/ingram_images_hi/1/1481435221.jpg)
![Red, White, and Whole](https://cdn.teachingbooks.net/media/bookimages/covers/74570_hi.jpg)
![Schomburg: The Man Who Built a Library](https://cdn.teachingbooks.net/content/ingram_images_hi/0/076368046X.jpg)
Schomburg: The Man Who Built a Library
by Carole Boston Weatherford and Eric Velasquez
(Winner, 2018)
40 Resources12 Awards
![Bridge Home, The](https://cdn.teachingbooks.net/content/ingram_images_hi/5/1524738115.jpg)
![We Are Not Free](https://cdn.teachingbooks.net/media/bookimages/covers/68911_hi.jpg)
![Everything Sad Is Untrue: (a True Story)](https://cdn.teachingbooks.net/media/bookimages/covers/70433_hi.jpg)
![King and the Dragonflies](https://cdn.teachingbooks.net/content/ingram_images_hi/3/1338129333.jpg)
![Astonishing Color of After, The](https://cdn.teachingbooks.net/content/ingram_images_hi/0/031646399X.jpg)
![They Call Me Güero: A Border Kid's Poems](https://cdn.teachingbooks.net/content/ingram_images_hi/6/1947627066.jpg)
![Last Mapmaker, The](https://cdn.teachingbooks.net/content/ingram_images_hi/1/1536204951.jpg)
![Remember Us](https://cdn.teachingbooks.net/content/ingram_images_hi/8/0399545468.jpg)
![Choosing Brave: How Mamie Till-Mobley and Emmett Till Sparked the Civil Rights Movement](https://cdn.teachingbooks.net/media/bookimages/covers/82970_hi.jpg)
Choosing Brave: How Mamie Till-Mobley and Emmett Till Sparked the Civil Rights Movement
by Angela Joy and Janelle Washington
(Winner, 2023)
32 Resources16 Awards
![Borders](https://cdn.teachingbooks.net/content/ingram_images_hi/0/0316593060.jpg)
![Almost American Girl: An Illustrated Memoir](https://cdn.teachingbooks.net/content/ingram_images_hi/4/0062685104.jpg)
![You Bring the Distant Near](https://cdn.teachingbooks.net/content/ingram_images_hi/4/0374304904.jpg)
![Lesbiana's Guide to Catholic School, The](https://cdn.teachingbooks.net/media/bookimages/covers/84436_hi.jpg)
![Good Kind of Trouble, A](https://cdn.teachingbooks.net/content/ingram_images_hi/4/0062836684.jpg)
![Star Child: A Biographical Constellation of Octavia Estelle Butler](https://cdn.teachingbooks.net/media/bookimages/covers/80165_hi.jpg)
Star Child: A Biographical Constellation of Octavia Estelle Butler
by Ibi Zoboi
(Honor, 2023)
27 Resources11 Awards
![Laura Dean Keeps Breaking Up with Me](https://cdn.teachingbooks.net/content/ingram_images_hi/1/1250312841.jpg)
Laura Dean Keeps Breaking Up with Me
by Mariko Tamaki and Rosemary Valero-O'Connell
(Winner, 2020)
26 Resources9 Awards
![Forest World](https://cdn.teachingbooks.net/content/ingram_images_hi/5/1481490575.jpg)
![Monday's Not Coming](https://cdn.teachingbooks.net/content/ingram_images_hi/7/0062422677.jpg)
![Saints of the Household](https://cdn.teachingbooks.net/content/ingram_images_hi/7/0374389497.jpg)
![Man Made Monsters](https://cdn.teachingbooks.net/media/bookimages/covers/84574_hi.jpg)
![If I Was Your Girl](https://cdn.teachingbooks.net/content/ingram_images_hi/7/1250078407.jpg)
![Disappeared](https://cdn.teachingbooks.net/content/ingram_images_hi/3/0545944473.jpg)
![Grounded](https://cdn.teachingbooks.net/content/ingram_images_hi/7/1419761757.jpg)
Grounded
by Aisha Saeed, S.K. Ali, Jamilah Thompkins-Bigelow, and Huda Al-Marashi
(Honor, 2024)
16 Resources2 Awards
![All the Fighting Parts](https://cdn.teachingbooks.net/media/bookimages/covers/93197_hi.jpg)