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Blue Hen Book Award: 2021 Winners and Nominees

The Blue Hen Book Award is a children’s choice award sponsored by the Youth Services Division of the Delaware Library Association. The award encourages literacy and library use by children and teens.

2021 Blue Hen Book Award Winners

The Scarecrow

Category: Younger Readers

Zoey & Sassafras

Category: Middle Readers

Guts

Category: Middle Readers Graphic Novel

With the Fire on High

Category: Teen Readers

Check, Please!: # Hockey

Category: Teen Readers Graphic Novel

For Young Readers

The Scarecrow by Beth Ferry; The Fan Brothers (Illustrator)
ISBN: 9780062475763
Giraffe Problems by Jory John; Lane Smith (Illustrator)
ISBN: 9781524772031
The Itchy Book! (Elephant & Piggie Like Reading!) by Mo Willems (Illustrator); Leuyen Pham (Illustrator)
ISBN: 9781368005647
My Papi Has a Motorcycle by Isabel Quintero; Zeke Peña (Illustrator)
ISBN: 9780525553410
Tyrannosaurus Rex vs. Edna the Very First Chicken by Douglas Rees
ISBN: 9781627795104

For Middle Readers

A Boy Called Bat by Elana K. Arnold; Charles Santoso (Illustrator)
ISBN: 9780062445827
Dragons and Marshmallows by Asia Citro; Marion Lindsay (Illustrator)
ISBN: 9781943147090
The Last Last-Day-of-Summer by Lamar Giles; Dapo Adeola (Illustrator)
ISBN: 9781328460837
Merci Suárez Changes Gears by Meg Medina
ISBN: 9780763690496
Front Desk by Kelly Yang
ISBN: 9781338157796

Middle Readers - Graphic Novels

Illegal by Eoin Colfer; Andrew Donkin; Giovanni Rigano (Illustrator)
ISBN: 9781492665823
New Kid by Jerry Craft (Illustrator)
ISBN: 9780062691200
Operatic by Kyo MacLear; Byron Eggenschwiler (Illustrator)
ISBN: 9781554989720
Aquicorn Cove by Katie O'Neill (Illustrator)
ISBN: 9781620105290
Guts by Raina Telgemeier (Illustrator)
ISBN: 9780545852517

For Teen Readers

With the Fire on High by Elizabeth Acevedo
ISBN: 9780062662835
Picture Us in the Light by Kelly Loy Gilbert
ISBN: 9781484726020
Refugee by Alan Gratz
ISBN: 9780545880831
Long Way Down by Jason Reynolds
ISBN: 9781481438254
We Are Displaced by Malala Yousafzai
ISBN: 9780316523646

Teen Readers - Graphic Novels

Speak: the Graphic Novel by Emily Carroll (Illustrator); Laurie Halse Anderson
ISBN: 9780374300289
Bloom by Kevin Panetta; Savanna Ganucheau (Illustrator)
ISBN: 9781250196910
They Called Us Enemy by George Takei; Justin Eisinger; Steven Scott; Harmony Becker (Illustrator)
ISBN: 9781603094504
Laura Dean Keeps Breaking up with Me by Mariko Tamaki
ISBN: 9781250312846
Check, Please!: # Hockey by Ngozi Ukazu
ISBN: 9781250177957