In the Margins Book Awards, 2014-2025
Resources for the titles recognized by this award since its inception in 2014 - celebrating fiction and non-fiction titles of high-interest appeal for readers who may identify with BIPOC youth, street culture youth, restrictive custody youth, and/or reluctant readers
- 1,304 Resources including
- 173 Videos
- 67 Book Readings
- 74 Lesson Plans
- List Analysis Report
Showing 1-48 of 141 book results
Ain't Burned All the Bright
by Jason Reynolds and Jason Griffin
(Fiction Winner, 2023)
55+ Resources17 Awards
An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States for Young People
by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, Jean Mendoza, and Debbie Reese
(Nonfiction Honor, 2020)
45+ Resources10 Awards
Milo Imagines the World
by Matt de la Peña and Christian Robinson
(Fiction Winner, 2022)
40+ Resources10 Awards
Run Book One
by John Lewis, Andrew Aydin, L. Fury, and Nate Powell
(Nonfiction Winner, 2022)
40+ Resources5 Awards
Illegal
by Eoin Colfer, Andrew Donkin, and Giovanni Rigano
(Fiction Honor, 2019)
25+ Resources8 Awards
Mid-Air
by Alicia D. Williams and Danica Novgorodoff
(Fiction Selection, 2025)
25+ Resources11 Awards
Rising from the Ashes: Los Angeles, 1992
by Paula Yoo
(Nonfiction Selection, 2025)
20+ Resources10 Awards
I Am Alfonso Jones
by Tony Medina, Stacey Robinson, and John Jennings
(Fiction Honor, 2018)
20+ Resources4 Awards
Surviving the City
by Tasha Spillett and Natasha Donovan
(Fiction Winner, 2020)
20+ Resources5 Awards
The Rez Doctor
by Gitz Crazyboy, Veronika Barinova, Azby Whitecalf, and Toben Racicot
(Nonfiction Selection, 2025)
20+ Resources8 Awards
The Outside Circle: A Graphic Novel
by Patti Laboucane-Benson and Kelly Mellings
(Fiction Honor, 2016)
20+ Resources3 Awards
Breathe: Journeys to Healthy Binding
by Maia Kobabe and Sarah Peitzmeier
(Nonfiction Selection, 2025)
15+ Resources3 Awards
The Rent Collectors: Exploitation, Murder, and Redemption in Immigrant LA
by Jesse Katz
(Social Action Winner, 2025)
15+ Resources2 Awards
War Brothers: The Graphic Novel
by Sharon McKay and Daniel LaFrance
(Fiction Honor, 2014)
15+ Resources3 Awards
My Shoes And I / Mis Zapatos y Yo
by René Colato Laínez and Fabricio Vanden Broeck
(Fiction Honor, 2020)
15+ Resources1 Awards
A Girl Called Echo Omnibus
by Katherena Vermette, Scott Henderson, and Donovan Yaciuk
(Social Action Selection, 2025)
15+ Resources2 Awards
Little by Little: You Can Change the World
by Sonya Ballantyne and Rhael McGregor
(Social Action Selection, 2025)
15+ Resources3 Awards
We Refuse: A Forceful History of Black Resistance
(Social Action Selection, 2025)
15+ Resources2 Awards
Into the Streets: A Young Person's Visual History of Protest in the United States
(Nonfiction Honor, 2021)
15+ Resources1 Awards
Killers of the Flower Moon: Adapted for Young Readers: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI
by David Grann
(Nonfiction Honor, 2023)
15+ Resources2 Awards
Dear Ruby, Hear Our Hearts
by Ruby Bridges and John Jay Cabuay
(Social Action Selection, 2025)
15+ Resources4 Awards
Dear Dad: Growing Up with a Parent in Prison -- And How We Stayed Connected
by Jay Jay Patton, Antoine Patton, Kiara Valdez, and Markia Jenai
(Nonfiction Selection, 2025)
15+ Resources4 Awards
Freeing Teresa: A True Story about My Sister and Me
by Franke James, Billiam James, and Teresa Heartchild
(Nonfiction Selection, 2025)
15+ Resources2 Awards
Broken: Transforming Child Protective Services--Notes of a Former Caseworker
(Social Action Selection, 2025)
15+ Resources2 Awards
Resist: How a Century of Young Black Activists Shaped America
by Rita Omokha
(Social Action Selection, 2025)
15+ Resources2 Awards
Voces Sin Fronteras: Our Stories, Our Truth
by Latin American Youth Center
(Nonfiction Winner, 2019)
10+ Resources3 Awards
