In the Margins Book Awards, 2014-2024
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
Sponsored by In the Margins Book Awards Committee
![In the Margins Book Awards, 2014-2024](https://cdn.teachingbooks.net/images/awards/205.png)
- 1,147 Resources including
- 131 Videos
- 52 Book Readings
- 64 Lesson Plans
- List Analysis Report
Showing 1-48 of 113 book results
![Ain't Burned All the Bright](https://cdn.teachingbooks.net/media/bookimages/covers/80064_hi.jpg)
Ain't Burned All the Bright
by Jason Reynolds and Jason Griffin
(Fiction Winner, 2023)
60 Resources17 Awards
![Hey, Kiddo](https://cdn.teachingbooks.net/content/ingram_images_hi/7/0545902487.jpg)
![Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States for Young People, An](https://cdn.teachingbooks.net/content/ingram_images_hi/5/0807049395.jpg)
An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States for Young People
by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, Jean Mendoza, and Debbie Reese
(Nonfiction Honor, 2020)
42 Resources10 Awards
![Milo Imagines the World](https://cdn.teachingbooks.net/content/ingram_images_hi/0/0399549080.jpg)
Milo Imagines the World
by Matt de la Peña and Christian Robinson
(Fiction Winner, 2022)
41 Resources10 Awards
![Run Book One](https://cdn.teachingbooks.net/content/ingram_images_hi/0/141973069X.jpg)
Run Book One
by John Lewis, Andrew Aydin, L. Fury, and Nate Powell
(Nonfiction Winner, 2022)
41 Resources5 Awards
![Yaqui Delgado Wants to Kick Your Ass](https://cdn.teachingbooks.net/content/ingram_images_hi/6/0763658596.jpg)
![When I Was the Greatest](https://cdn.teachingbooks.net/content/ingram_images_hi/6/1442459476.jpg)
![Life I'm In, The](https://cdn.teachingbooks.net/content/ingram_images_hi/9/1338573179.jpg)
![Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption](https://cdn.teachingbooks.net/content/ingram_images_hi/3/0812994523.jpg)
![Illegal](https://cdn.teachingbooks.net/content/ingram_images_hi/3/1492662143.jpg)
Illegal
by Eoin Colfer, Andrew Donkin, and Giovanni Rigano
(Fiction Honor, 2019)
28 Resources8 Awards
![How It Went Down](https://cdn.teachingbooks.net/content/ingram_images_hi/0/0805098690.jpg)
![Free Lunch](https://cdn.teachingbooks.net/content/ingram_images_hi/0/132400360X.jpg)
![Illegal](https://cdn.teachingbooks.net/content/ingram_images_hi/0/1338310550.jpg)
![I Am Alfonso Jones](https://cdn.teachingbooks.net/content/ingram_images_hi/5/1620142635.jpg)
I Am Alfonso Jones
by Tony Medina, Stacey Robinson, and John Jennings
(Fiction Honor, 2018)
19 Resources4 Awards
![Surviving the City](https://cdn.teachingbooks.net/media/bookimages/covers/66422_hi.jpg)
Surviving the City
by Tasha Spillett and Natasha Donovan
(Fiction Winner, 2020)
19 Resources5 Awards
![Invisible Son](https://cdn.teachingbooks.net/content/ingram_images_hi/7/0593482107.jpg)
![Outside Circle, The: A Graphic Novel](https://cdn.teachingbooks.net/content/ingram_images_hi/5/1770899375.jpg)
The Outside Circle: A Graphic Novel
by Patti Laboucane-Benson and Kelly Mellings
(Fiction Honor, 2016)
16 Resources3 Awards
![My Shoes And I / Mis Zapatos y Yo](https://cdn.teachingbooks.net/content/ingram_images_hi/9/1558858849.jpg)
My Shoes And I / Mis Zapatos y Yo
by René Colato Laínez and Fabricio Vanden Broeck
(Fiction Honor, 2020)
16 Resources1 Awards
![Eb & Flow](https://cdn.teachingbooks.net/content/ingram_images_hi/3/0593429133.jpg)
![Where I Belong](https://cdn.teachingbooks.net/media/bookimages/covers/77289_hi.jpg)
![Visions of the Crow](https://cdn.teachingbooks.net/content/ingram_images_hi/0/177492045X.jpg)
Visions of the Crow
by Wanda John-Kehewin, Nicole Marie Burton, and Kielamel Sibal
(Fiction Winner, 2024)
15 Resources3 Awards
![Buck](https://cdn.teachingbooks.net/content/ingram_images_hi/1/0812993411.jpg)
![War Brothers: The Graphic Novel](https://cdn.teachingbooks.net/content/ingram_images_hi/4/1554514894.jpg)
War Brothers: The Graphic Novel
by Sharon McKay and Daniel LaFrance
(Fiction Honor, 2014)
13 Resources3 Awards
![Disturbed Girl's Dictionary, The](https://cdn.teachingbooks.net/content/ingram_images_hi/2/1512439762.jpg)
![Continuum](https://cdn.teachingbooks.net/content/ingram_images_hi/9/0593223489.jpg)
![When We Make It](https://cdn.teachingbooks.net/content/ingram_images_hi/0/059332448X.jpg)
![Reckoner Rises, Volume 1, The: Breakdown](https://cdn.teachingbooks.net/content/ingram_images_hi/2/1553798902.jpg)
The Reckoner Rises, Volume 1: Breakdown
by David Alexander Robertson, Scott Henderson, and Donovan Yaciuk
(Fiction Honor, 2021)
13 Resources1 Awards
![Ho'onani: Hula Warrior](https://cdn.teachingbooks.net/content/ingram_images_hi/0/073526449X.jpg)
![For Beautiful Black Boys Who Believe in a Better World](https://cdn.teachingbooks.net/content/ingram_images_hi/0/1947888080.jpg)
For Beautiful Black Boys Who Believe in a Better World
by Michael W. Waters and Keisha Morris
(Fiction Honor, 2021)
12 Resources1 Awards
![Akim Aliu: Dreamer](https://cdn.teachingbooks.net/content/ingram_images_hi/8/1338787608.jpg)
Akim Aliu: Dreamer
by Akim Aliu, Greg Anderson Elysée, and Karen de la Vega
(Nonfiction Winner, 2024)
12 Resources4 Awards
![Girl in Pieces](https://cdn.teachingbooks.net/content/ingram_images_hi/9/1101934719.jpg)
![Into the Streets: A Young Person's Visual History of Protest in the United States](https://cdn.teachingbooks.net/content/ingram_images_hi/6/1541579046.jpg)
Into the Streets: A Young Person's Visual History of Protest in the United States
(Nonfiction Honor, 2021)
11 Resources1 Awards
![Killers of the Flower Moon: Adapted for Young Readers: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI](https://cdn.teachingbooks.net/content/ingram_images_hi/6/0593377346.jpg)
Killers of the Flower Moon: Adapted for Young Readers: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI
by David Grann
(Nonfiction Honor, 2023)
11 Resources2 Awards
![Ghetto Brother: Warrior to Peacemaker](https://cdn.teachingbooks.net/content/ingram_images_hi/6/1561639486.jpg)
Ghetto Brother: Warrior to Peacemaker
by Julian Voloj, Claudia Ahlering, and Jeff Chang
(Nonfiction Honor, 2016)
10 Resources1 Awards
![Voces Sin Fronteras: Our Stories, Our Truth](https://cdn.teachingbooks.net/content/ingram_images_hi/9/1945434929.jpg)
Voces Sin Fronteras: Our Stories, Our Truth
by Latin American Youth Center
(Nonfiction Winner, 2019)
10 Resources3 Awards
![Can We Please Give the Police Department to the Grandmothers?](https://cdn.teachingbooks.net/content/ingram_images_hi/5/0593462335.jpg)
Can We Please Give the Police Department to the Grandmothers?
by Junauda Petrus and Kristen Uroda
(Social Action Winner, 2024)
10 Resources4 Awards
![When They Call You a Terrorist (Young Adult Edition): A Story of Black Lives Matter and the Power to Change the World](https://cdn.teachingbooks.net/media/bookimages/covers/76490_hi.jpg)
When They Call You a Terrorist (Young Adult Edition): A Story of Black Lives Matter and the Power to Change the World
by Patrisse Khan-Cullors and Asha Bandele
(Nonfiction Honor, 2021)
9 Resources2 Awards
![Black Girls Left Standing, The](https://cdn.teachingbooks.net/content/ingram_images_hi/9/1250792819.jpg)
![Freedom! The Story of the Black Panther Party](https://cdn.teachingbooks.net/content/ingram_images_hi/1/1646140931.jpg)
Freedom! The Story of the Black Panther Party
by Jetta Grace Martin, Joshua Bloom, and Waldo E. Martin, Jr.
(Nonfiction Honor, 2023)
8 Resources1 Awards
![We Hereby Refuse: Japanese American Resistance to Wartime Incarceration](https://cdn.teachingbooks.net/content/ingram_images_hi/0/163405976X.jpg)
We Hereby Refuse: Japanese American Resistance to Wartime Incarceration
by Frank Abe, Tamiko Nimura, Ross Ishikawa, and Matt Sasaki
(Social Action Honor, 2022)
8 Resources1 Awards
![Good Kings, Bad Kings](https://cdn.teachingbooks.net/content/ingram_images_hi/0/1616203250.jpg)
![Boy Who Carried Bricks, The: A True Story](https://cdn.teachingbooks.net/content/ingram_images_hi/9/1937054349.jpg)
The Boy Who Carried Bricks: A True Story
by Alton Carter
(Nonfiction Honor, 2016)
7 Resources1 Awards
![Other Broken Things](https://cdn.teachingbooks.net/content/ingram_images_hi/9/1481437399.jpg)
![Aging Out](https://cdn.teachingbooks.net/content/ingram_images_hi/4/1937054284.jpg)
![Dreams on Fire](https://cdn.teachingbooks.net/content/ingram_images_hi/2/1538382482.jpg)
![Colorblind: A Story of Racism](https://cdn.teachingbooks.net/content/ingram_images_hi/0/1947378120.jpg)
Colorblind: A Story of Racism
by Johnathan Harris, Anthony Zuiker, and Garry Leach
(Nonfiction Honor, 2020)
7 Resources1 Awards
![When You Hear Me (You Hear Us): Voices On Youth Incarceration](https://cdn.teachingbooks.net/content/ingram_images_hi/7/1950807347.jpg)
When You Hear Me (You Hear Us): Voices On Youth Incarceration
by Free Minds Book Club & Writing Workshop
(Nonfiction Honor, 2023)
7 Resources2 Awards