Middle School Books Winners
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2019 Winner – Young Adult/Middle School Literature
All The Ways Home by Elsie Chapman (Macmillan, Feiwel and Friends)
Fiction, set in Japan
2020 Of Note – Young Adult/Middle School Literature
All Thirteen: The Incredible Cave Rescue of the Thai Boys’ Soccer Team by Christina Soontornvat (Candlewick Press)
Nonfiction, set in Thailand
2020 Honorable Mention – Young Adult/Middle School Literature
Beyond Me by Annie Donwerth-Chikamatsu (Simon & Schuster)
Fiction, set in Japan
2017 Winner – Young Adult/Middle School Literature
Bronze and Sunflower by Cao Wenxuan, illustrated by Meilo So, translated by Helen Wang (Candlewick Press)
Fiction, set in China
2020 Winner – Young Adult/Middle School Literature
Brother’s Keeper by Julie Lee (Holiday House)
Fiction, set in Korea
2017 Honorable Mention – Young Adult/Middle School Literature
The Emperor’s Riddle by Kat Zhang (Simon & Schuster; Aladdin)
Fiction, set in China
2016 Honorable Mention – Young Adult/Middle School Literature
Falling into the Dragon’s Mouth by Holly Thompson (Henry Holt BYR/Macmillan Children’s Publishing Group)
Fiction – Set in Japan
2019 Honorable Mention – Young Adult/Middle School Literature
Girl of the Southern Sea by Michelle Kadarusman (Pajama Press)
Fiction, set in Indonesia
2018 Winner – Young Adult/Middle School Literature
Grenade by Alan Gratz (Scholastic Press)
Historical fiction, set in Japan
2017 Honorable Mention – Young Adult/Middle School Literature
Hotaka: Through My Eyes – Natural Disaster Zones by John Heffernan, edited by Lyn White (Allen & Unwin)
Fiction, set in Japan
2019 Of Note – Young Adult/Middle School Literature
House Without Walls Ching Yeung Russell (Simon & Schuster)
Fiction, set in Vietnam
2019 Of Note – Young Adult/Middle School Literature
The Magnolia Sword: A Ballad of Mulan Sherry Thomas (Lee & Low)
Fiction, set in China
2016 Winner – Young Adult/Middle School Literature
The Night Parade by Kathryn Tanquary (Sourcebooks Jabberwocky)
Fiction, set in Japan
2018 Honorable Mention – Young Adult/Middle School Literature
Onibi: Diary of a Yokai Ghost Hunter by Atelier Sento, Cecile Brun, Olivier Pichard, Translated by Marie Velde (Tuttle Publishing)
Fiction, set in Japan
2019 Winner – Young Adult/Middle School Literature
A Place to Belong by Cynthia Kadohata, Illustrated by Julia Kuo (Simon & Schuster, Atheneum/Caitlyn Dlouhy Books)
Fiction, set in Japan
2018 Honorable Mention – Young Adult/Middle School Literature
Shadow of the Fox by Julie Kagawa (Harlequin Teen)
Fiction, set in Japan
2017 Honorable Mention – Young Adult/Middle School Literature
Ten: A Soccer Story by Shamini Flint (Clarion Books, an imprint of Houghton Mifflin Harcourt)
Fiction, set in Malaysia
2016 Winner – Young Adult/Middle School Literature
Somewhere Among by Annie Donwerth-Chikamatsu (Atheneum Books for Young Readers)
Fiction, set in Japan
2018 Honorable Mention – Young Adult/Middle School Literature
Too Young to Escape: A Vietnamese Girl Waits to be Reunited with Her Family by Van Ho and Marsha Skrypuch (Pajama Press)
Non fiction, set in Vietnam