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- Amelia Bloomer List: An annual list of the best feminist books for young readers, ages birth through 18.
- American Indian Youth Literature Award: Awarded every two years to honor the very best writing and illustrations by and about American Indians.
- Américas Award: Awarded annually to encourage and commend authors, illustrators and publishers who produce quality children’s and young adult books that portray Latin America, the Caribbean, or Latinos in the United States.
- Arab American Book Award: Awarded annually to honor books written by and about Arab Americans.
- Asian Pacific American Award Literature: To honor and recognize individual work about Asian/Pacific Americans and their heritage, based on literary and artistic merit.
- Batchelder Award: Given to the most outstanding children’s book originally published in a language other than English in a country other than the United States, and subsequently translated into English for publication in the United States.
- Caldecott Medal: Awarded to the artist of the year's most distinguished American picture book for children.
- Carter G Woodson Award: Award for the most distinguished social science books appropriate for young readers that depict ethnicity in the United States.
- Charlotte Huck Award: To promote and recognize excellence in the writing of fiction for children. This award recognizes fiction that has the potential to transform children’s lives by inviting compassion, imagination, and wonder.
- Charlotte Zolotow Award: Given annually to the author of the best picture book text published in the United States
- Children's Africana Book Awards: Presented annually to the authors and illustrators of the best children’s and young adult books on Africa published or republished in the U.S.
- Comstock-Gág Read Aloud Book Award
- Coretta Scott King Book Awards: Given annually to outstanding African American authors and illustrators of books for children and young adults that demonstrate an appreciation of African American culture and universal human values.
- Dolly Gray Award: Recognizes authors, illustrators, and publishers of high quality fictional and biographical children, intermediate, and young adult books that appropriately portray individuals with developmental disabilities.
- Ezra Jack Keats Book Award: Awards a New Writer Award and New Illustrator Award annually to recognize and encourage emerging talent in the field of children’s books.
- Geisel Award: Given annually to the author(s) and illustrator(s) of the most distinguished American book for beginning readers published in English in the United States.
- Green Earth Book Award: Annual award for books that best convey the message of environmental stewardship.
- Horn Book Awards / Boston Globe: A prestigious annual award for excellence in children's and young adult literature.
- ILA Book Awards: Intended for newly published authors who show unusual promise in the children's and young adults' book field. Awards are given for fiction and nonfiction in each of three (3) categories: primary, intermediate, and young adult.
- Jane Addam's Children's Book Award: Recognizes children’s books of literary and aesthetic excellence that effectively engage children in thinking about peace, social justice, global community, and equity for all people.
- John Steptoe Award: To affirm new talent and to offer visibility to excellence in writing and/or illustration which otherwise might be formally unacknowledged within a given year within the structure of the two awards given annually by the Coretta Scott King Task Force.
- LAMBDA LGBTQ Children’s/Young Adult Award: Annual awards for the best lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender books.
- Middle East Book Award: To recognize books for children and young adults that contribute meaningfully to understanding of the Middle East.
- National Book Award in Young People's Literature
- NCTE Award for Excellence in Poetry for Children: To honor a living American poet for his or her aggregate work for children ages 3 to 13.
- Newberry Medal: Awarded annually to the author of the most distinguished contribution to American literature for children.
- Notable Books for a Global Society: Annual recognition of 25 outstanding trade books for enhancing student understanding of people and cultures throughout the world.
- Notable Social Studies Trade Books for Young People
- Orbis Pictus Award: To promote and recognize excellence in the writing of nonfiction for children.
- Outstanding Science Trade Books for Students
- Phoenix Award: To recognize books of high literary merit, which never won award at the time publication, and which is still worthy of recognition.
- Printz Award: The Michael L. Printz Award is given annually to a book that exemplifies literary excellence in young adult literature.
- Pura Belpre Award: Presented annually to a Latino/Latina writer and illustrator whose work best portrays, affirms, and celebrates the Latino cultural experience in an outstanding work of literature for children and youth.
- Rainbow Book List: An annual bibliography of quality books with significant and authentic GLBTQ content, which are recommended for people from birth through eighteen years of age.
- Schneider Family Book Award: Honors an author or illustrator for a book that embodies an artistic expression of the disability experience for child and adolescent audiences.
- Scott O'Dell Award: Awarded annually to a meritorious book of historical fiction for children or young adults.
- Sibert Medal: The Robert F. Sibert Informational Book Medal is awarded annually to the author(s) and illustrator(s) of the most distinguished informational book published in the United States in English.
- South Asian Book Award: A yearly book award to call attention to outstanding works on South Asia.
- Stonewall Award: Awarded annually to books of exceptional merit relating to the gay/lesbian/bisexual/transgender experience.
- Sydney Taylor Book Award: Presented annually to outstanding books for children and teens that authentically portray the Jewish experience.
- Tomas Rivera Award: To honor authors and illustrators who create literature that depicts the Mexican American experience.
- Walter Award: Recognizes diverse authors (or co-authors) whose works feature diverse main characters and address diversity in a meaningful way.
- YALSA Award for Excellence in Nonfiction for Young Adults
