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February 17, 2025

Winner of multiple awards, including the Cybils Award for Poetry Collections, Black Girl, You Are Atlas, by Renée Watson, fine art by Ekua Holmes, read by Renée Watson, is a set of biographical poems about growing up Black in America.

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Biography

How the Boogeyman Became a Poet

by Tony Keith Jr.
read by the Author

Gamer Girls

written by Mary Kenney
illustrated by Salini Perera

Creativity

Reawakening Our Ancestors' Lines

gathered and compiled by Angela Hovak Johnston
with photographs by Cora De Vos

Current Issues

Accountable

by Dashka Slater
read by Ariel Blake

Money Out Loud

by Berna Anat

History

Shackled

by Candy J. Cooper

Impossible Escape

by Steve Sheinkin
read by Rob Shapiro

Poetry

Black Girl, You Are Atlas

by Renée Watson
fine art by Ekua Holmes
read by Renée Watson

Ink Knows No Borders

edited by Patrice Vecchione and Alyssa Raymond

Science

Folding Tech

by Karen Latchana Kenney

Hidden Systems

by Dan Nott

All Teen Nonfiction Reviews

Edward Lorenz and the Chaotic Butterflies

by Robert Black

Still Stace

by Stacey Chomiak

The Great Nijinsky

by Lynn Curlee

Elena Vanishing

by Elena and Clare B. Dunkle

Dancing at the Pity Party

by Tyler Feder

In Code

by Sarah Flannery with David Flannery

The Rise and Fall of Charles Lindbergh

by Candace Fleming

Messy Roots

by Laura Gao

The Woman All Spies Fear

by Amy Butler Greenfield

Almost American Girl

by Robin Ha

Welcome to St. Hell

by Lewis Hancox

Charles and Emma

by Deborah Heiligman

The Faithful Spy

by John Hendrix

Mythmakers

All Boys Aren't Blue

by George M. Johnson

Banned Book Club

written by Kim Hyun Sook and Ryan Estrada
art by Ko Hyung-Ju

Hey, Kiddo

by Jarrett J. Krosoczka

Sunshine

March, Book One

by John Lewis, Andrew Aydin, and Nate Powell

March, Book Two

March, Book Three

Run, Book One

by John Lewis and Andrew Aydin
art by L. Fury with Nate Powell

Grand Theft Horse

by G. Neri
illustrated by Corban Wilkin

Punching Bag

by Rex Ogle

Road Home

Abuela, Don't Forget Me

A Quantum Life

by Hakeem Oluseyi and Joshua Horwitz

Homebody

by Theo Parish

Stories of my Life

by Katherine Paterson

Gone to the Woods

by Gary Paulsen

House of Dreams

by Liz Rosenberg

Victory. Stand!

by Tommie Smith, Derrick Barnes, and Dawud Anyabwile

¡Ay, Mija!

by Christine Suggs

Samurai Rising

by Pamela S. Turner
illustrated by Gareth Hinds

The Chemistry of Food

by Carla Mooney
illustrated by Tracy Van Wagoner

Playlist

by James Rhodes

The Singing Bones

by Shaun Tan

Call and Response

by Veronica Chambers

If I Go Missing

by Brianna Jonnie with Nahanni Shingoose
art by Nshannacappo

Beyond Magenta

written and photographed by Susan Kuklin

In Search of Safety

You Can't Say That

compiled and edited by Leonard S. Marcus

Stamped

by Jason Reynolds and Ibram X. Kendi
read by Jason Reynolds

America Redux

by Ariel Aberg-Riger

Symphony for the City of the Dead

by M. T. Anderson

Sugar Changed the World

by Marc Aronson and Marina Budhos

Those Who Saw the Sun

by Jaha Nailah Avery

The Nazi Hunters

by Neal Bascomb

The Grand Escape

Bootleg

by Karen Blumenthal

83 Days in Mariupol

by Don Brown

The Other Pandemic

An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States
for Young People

by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz
adapted by Jean Mendoza and Debbie Reese

Nearer My Freedom

by Monica Edinger and Lesley Younge

After the Holocaust

by Howard Greenfeld

The Gettysburg Address
A Graphic Adaptation

written by Jonathan Hennessey
art by Aaron McConnell

Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice

by Philip Hoose

The Boys Who Challenged Hitler

by Phillip Hoose

Attucks!

Revolution in Our Time

by Kekla Magoon

This Land Is Our Land

by Linda Barrett Osborne

Seen and Unseen

by Elizabeth Partridge
illustrated by Lauren Tamaki

Give Us the Vote!

by Susan Goldman Rubin

Bomb

by Steve Sheinkin

Fallout

Sachiko

by Caren Stilson

They Called Us Enemy

by George Takei, Justin Eisinger, and Steven Scott
art by Harmony Becker

A Thousand Sisters

by Elizabeth Wein

Dragon Hoops

by Gene Luen Yang

Shout

by Laurie Halse Anderson

Ordinary Hazards

by Nikki Grimes

How I Discovered Poetry

by Marilyn Nelson
illustrated by Hadley Hooper

My Name Is Jason. Mine Too.

by Jason Reynolds and Jason Griffin

What the Heart Knows

by Joyce Sidman
illustrations by Pamela Zagarenski

Somebody Give This Heart a Pen

by Sophia Thakur

The Code Breaker

by Walter Isaacson
with Sarah Durand

American Murderer

by Gail Jarrow

Queer Ducks

by Eliot Schrefer