Books in Stonewall Book Awards - Mike Morgan & Larry Romans Children’s & Young Adult Literature Award

The Mike Morgan & Larry Romans Children's & Young Adult Literature Award is part of the ALA Rainbow Round Table's Stonewall Book Awards. It honors books of exceptional merit about the LGBTQ+ experience. Winners and honor books range from picture books to middle grade and YA novels in verse, fantasy, and realism (e.g., Love, Violet, The Black Flamingo, Too Bright to See). Readership spans young children through teens.

2025

	Book	Author	Award Level	Completed
	Canto Contigo	Jonny Garza Villa	Winner	Log In To Like
	Lunar Boy	Jes Wibowo	Winner	Log In To Like
	Murray Out of Water	Taylor Tracy	Honor	Log In To Like
	The Flicker	H.E. Edgmon	Honor	Log In To Like
	What I Must Tell the World	Jay Leslie	Honor	Log In To Like
	Most Ardently	Gabe Cole Novoa	Honor	Log In To Like
	Navigating With You	Jeremy Whitley	Honor	Log In To Like
	Time and Time Again	Chatham Greenfield	Honor	Log In To Like
	Road Home	Rex Ogle	Honor	Log In To Like
	Marley's Pride	Joëlle Retener	Honor	Log In To Like

2024

	Book	Author	Award Level	Completed
	Cross My Heart and Never Lie	Nora Dåsnes	Winner	Log In To Like
	Only This Beautiful Moment	Abdi Nazemian	Winner	Log In To Like
	Stars in Their Eyes	Jessica Walton	Honor	Log In To Like
	Desert Queen	Jyoti Rajan Gopal	Honor	Log In To Like
	Not He or She, I'm Me	A.M. Wild	Honor	Log In To Like
	The Otherwoods	Justine Pucella Winans	Honor	Log In To Like
	Ander & Santi Were Here	Jonny Garza Villa	Honor	Log In To Like
	Imogen, Obviously	Becky Albertalli	Honor	Log In To Like
	The Long Run	James Acker	Honor	Log In To Like
	The Spirit Bares Its Teeth	Andrew Joseph White	Honor	Log In To Like

2023

	Book	Author	Award Level	Completed
	Love, Violet	Charlotte Sullivan Wild	Winner	Log In To Like
	When the Angels Left the Old Country	Sacha Lamb	Winner	Log In To Like
	Kapaemahu	Hinaleimoana Wong-Kalu	Honor	Log In To Like
	The Real Riley Mayes	Rachel Elliott	Honor	Log In To Like
	Strong	Rob Kearney	Honor	Log In To Like
	I Kissed Shara Wheeler	Casey McQuiston	Honor	Log In To Like
	Kings of B’More	R. Eric Thomas	Honor	Log In To Like
	Man O’War	Cori McCarthy	Honor	Log In To Like
	The Summer of Bitter and Sweet	Jen Ferguson	Honor	Log In To Like
	In the Key of Us	Mariama J. Lockington	Honor	Log In To Like

2022

	Book	Author	Award Level	Completed
	Too Bright to See	Kyle Lukoff	Winner	Log In To Like
	Almost Flying	Jake Maia Arlow	Honor	Log In To Like
	Grandad's Camper	Harry Woodgate	Honor	Log In To Like
	The Darkness Outside Us	Eliot Schrefer	Honor	Log In To Like

2021

	Book	Author	Award Level	Completed
	Felix Ever After	Kacen Callender	Honor	Log In To Like
	Beetle & The Hollowbones	Aliza Layne	Honor	Log In To Like
	Darius the Great Deserves Better	Adib Khorram	Honor	Log In To Like
	You Should See Me in a Crown	Leah Johnson	Honor	Log In To Like

2020

	Book	Author	Award Level	Completed
	The Black Flamingo	Dean Atta	Winner	Log In To Like
	When Aidan Became a Brother	Kyle Lukoff	Winner	Log In To Like
	Pet	Akwaeke Emezi	Honor	Log In To Like
	Like a Love Story	Abdi Nazemian	Honor	Log In To Like
	The Best at It	Maulik Pancholy	Honor	Log In To Like

2019

	Book	Author	Award Level	Completed
	Hurricane Child	Kacen Callender	Winner	Log In To Like
	Julián Is a Mermaid	Jessica Love	Winner	Log In To Like
	Picture Us in the Light	Kelly Loy Gilbert	Honor	Log In To Like
	Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World	Ashley Herring Blake	Honor	Log In To Like

2018

	Book	Author	Award Level	Completed
	Little & Lion	Brandy Colbert	Winner	Log In To Like
	The 57 Bus	Dashka Slater	Winner	Log In To Like
	As the Crow Flies	Melanie Gillman	Honor	Log In To Like
	The Gentleman’s Guide to Vice and Virtue	Mackenzi Lee	Honor	Log In To Like

2017

	Book	Author	Award Level	Completed
	Magnus Chase and the Gods of Asgard: The Hammer of Thor	Rick Riordan	Winner	Log In To Like
	If I Was Your Girl	Meredith Russo	Winner	Log In To Like
	When the Moon Was Ours	Anna-Marie McLemore	Honor	Log In To Like
	Unbecoming	Jenny Downham	Honor	Log In To Like
	Pride: Celebrating Diversity & Community	Robin Stevenson	Honor	Log In To Like

2016

	Book	Author	Award Level	Completed
	George	Alex Gino	Winner	Log In To Like
	The Porcupine of Truth	Bill Konigsberg	Winner	Log In To Like
	Sex is a Funny Word: a Book about Bodies, Feelings, and YOU	Cory Silverberg	Honor	Log In To Like
	Wonders of the Invisible World	Christopher Barzak	Honor	Log In To Like

2015

	Book	Author	Award Level	Completed
	This Day in June	Gayle E. Pitman	Winner	Log In To Like
	Morris Micklewhite and the Tangerine Dress	Christine Baldacchino	Honor	Log In To Like
	Beyond Magenta: Transgender teens speak out	Susan Kuklin	Honor	Log In To Like
	I'll Give You the Sun	Jandy Nelson	Honor	Log In To Like

2014

	Book	Author	Award Level	Completed
	Beautiful Music for Ugly Children	Kirstin Cronn-Mills	Winner	Log In To Like
	Branded by the Pink Triangle	Ken Setterington	Honor	Log In To Like
	Two Boys Kissing	David Levithan	Honor	Log In To Like
	Fat Angie	E.E. Charlton-Trujillo	Honor	Log In To Like
	Better Nate than Ever	Tim Federle	Honor	Log In To Like

2013

	Book	Author	Award Level	Completed
	Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe	Benjamin Alire Sáenz	Winner	Log In To Like
	Drama	Raina Telgemeier	Honor	Log In To Like
	Gone, Gone, Gone	Hannah Moskowitz	Honor	Log In To Like
	Sparks	S. J. Adams	Honor	Log In To Like
	October Mourning	Lesléa Newman	Honor	Log In To Like

2012

	Book	Author	Award Level	Completed
	Putting Makeup on the Fat Boy	Bil Wright	Winner	Log In To Like
	Money Boy	Paul Yee	Honor	Log In To Like
	a + e 4ever	Ilike Merey	Honor	Log In To Like
	Pink	Lili Wilkinson	Honor	Log In To Like
	with or without you	Brian Farrey	Honor	Log In To Like