PAST WINNERS AND HONOREES
THE WALTER AWARD, TEEN CATEGORY
Laura Dean Keeps Breaking Up With Me by Mariko Tamaki, illustrated by Rosemary Valero-O'Connell
The Walter Honor Books, Teen Category
Pet by Akwaeke Emezi
With the Fire on High by Elizabeth Acevedo
The Walter Award, Younger Readers Category
The Bridge Home by Padma Venkatraman
The Walter Honor Books, Younger Readers Category
A Good Kind of Trouble by Lisa Moore Ramée
Other Words for Home by Jasmine Warga
The 2020 Judging Committee
Derek Ivie (Chair), L. Lee Butler, Shelley Diaz, Sandra Farag, Nikki Santiago, Morika Tsujimura, and Ny'ilah Whitaker
The Walter Award, Teen Category
The Poet X by Elizabeth Acevedo
The Walter Honor Books, Teen Category
Monday's Not Coming by Tiffany D. Jackson
The Astonishing Color of After by Emily X.R. Pan
The Walter Award, Younger Readers Category
Ghost Boys by Jewell Parker Rhodes
The Walter Honor Books, Younger Readers Category
They Call Me Güero: A Border Kid's Poems by David Bowles
The Night Diary by Veera Hiranandani
The 2019 Judging Committee
Maria Salvadore (Chair), L. Lee Butler, Laretta Henderson, Julia López-Robertson, Candice (Wingyee) Mack, Kathie Meizner, and John Williams
The Walter Award, Teen Category
Long Way Down by Jason Reynolds
The Walter Honor Books, Teen Category
You Bring the Distant Near by Mitali Perkins
Disappeared by Francisco X. Stork
The Walter Award, Younger Readers Category
Schomburg: The Man Who Built a Library by Carole Boston Weatherford, illustrated by Eric Velasquez
The Walter Honor Book, Younger Readers Category
Forest World by Margarita Engle
The 2018 Judging Committee
Terry Hong (Co-Chair), Maria Salvadore (Co-Chair), Derek Ivie, Ruth McKoy Lowery, Dora L. Maher, Nayantara Mhatre, and Deborah Taylor
The 2017 Judging Committee
Kathie Weinberg (Co-Chair), Terry Hong (Co-Chair), Derek Ivie, Shannon Lake, Karen Lemmons, and Nayantara Mhatre
The 2016 Judging Committee
Kathie Weinberg (Co-Chair), Dhonielle Clayton (Co-Chair) Christine Taylor Butler, Edi Campbell, Sarah Park Dahlen, Maria E. Gentle, Todd Kreuger, Angie Manfredi, Rita E. Painter, Lessa Kanani’opua Pelayo-Lozada, Rafe Posey, Adeeba Afshan Rana, and Mindy Rhiger
