This year’s winner is When You Reach Me, written by Rebecca Stead and published by Wendy Lamb Books, an imprint of Random House Children’s Books.

The honor books are:

• Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice by Phillip Hoose
• The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate by Jacqueline Kelly
• Where the Mountain Meets the Moon by Grace Lin
• The Mostly True Adventures of Homer P. Figg by Rodman Philbrick

Source: American Library Association.

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