US
Caldecott Medal
Fireworks, illustrated by Cátia Chien, written by Matthew Burgess (Clarion Children’s)
Carnegie
A Guardian and a Thief, by Megha Majumdar (Knopf) (fiction)
Things in Nature Merely Grow, by Yiyun Li (FSG) (nonfiction)
Newbery Medal
All the Blues in the Sky, by Renée Watson (Bloomsbury Children’s)
Printz Medal
Legendary Frybread Drive-In: Intertribal Stories, edited by Cynthia Leitich Smith (Heartdrum)
INTERNATIONAL
Nero
My Soul, A Shining Tree, by Jamila Gavin (Farshore) (children’s fiction)
A Family Matter, by Claire Lynch (Scribner) (debut fiction)
Seascraper, by Benjamin Wood (Scribner) (fiction)
Death of an Ordinary Man, by Sarah Perry (Mariner) (nonfiction)