Congrats to
The Poet X by Elizabeth Acevedo
on being named the winner of the
2019 Walter Award, Teen Category
The 2019 Walter Honors, Teen Category are
Monday’s Not Coming by Tiffany Jackson
The Astonishing Color of After by Emily X.R. Pan
"Inaugurated in 2016, the annual Walter Dean Myers Awards for Outstanding Children's Literature recognize diverse authors (or co-authors) whose works feature diverse main characters and address diversity in a meaningful way. Two to four Honor Books are also named annually. We Need Diverse Books defines “diverse” to be one or more of the following: a person of color, Native American, LGBTQIA, a person with a disability, and/or a member of a marginalized religious or cultural minority in the United States." (source: WNDB.org)
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