Here are the 2023 Newbery, Caldecott, and Printz Award Winners

Debut writer Amina Luqman-Dawson pens a lyrical, accessible humanities middle-grade caller astir 2 enslaved children’s flight from a plantation and the many ways they find freedom.

Under the screen of night, twelve-year-old Homer flees Southerland Plantation with his small sister Ada, unwillingly leaving their beloved parent behind. Much arsenic helium adores her and fears for her life, Homer knows there’s nary turning back, not with the overseer connected their trail. Through tangled vines, concealed doorways, and implicit a entity bridge, the 2 find a secret assemblage called Freewater, deep successful the swamp.

In this nine created by formerly enslaved radical and immoderate freeborn children, Homer finds caller friends, astir forgetting wherever helium came from. But erstwhile helium learns of a menace that could destroy Freewater, helium crafts a program to find his parent and assistance his caller home.

Deeply inspiring and loosely based connected the past of maroon communities successful the South, this is simply a striking communicative of survival, adventure, friendship, and courage. 

From a critically acclaimed creator comes this summery representation publication featuring an overheated—and overwhelmed—pup who finds his calm with immoderate sea, sand, and caller air.

It’s summertime successful the city, and this blistery canine has had enough! Enough of sizzling sidewalks, capable of wailing sirens, capable of people’s feet close successful his face. When helium plops down successful the mediate of a crosswalk, his proprietor endeavors to get him the enactment of caller aerial helium needs. She hails a taxi, hops a train, and ferries retired to the beach.

Here, a pup can run!

With fluid creation and lyrical substance that person the soothing effect of waves connected sand, Doug Salati shows america however to find calm and transportation it backmost with america truthful we tin admit the tiny joys successful a day.

From #1 New York Times bestselling writer Sabaa Tahir comes a brilliant, unforgettable, and heart-wrenching modern caller astir household and forgiveness, emotion and loss, successful a sweeping communicative that crosses generations and continents.

Lahore, Pakistan. Then.

Misbah is simply a dreamer and storyteller, recently joined to Toufiq successful an arranged match. After their young beingness is shaken by tragedy, they travel to the United States and unfastened the Clouds’ Rest Inn Motel, hoping for a caller start.

 Juniper, California. Now.

Salahudin and Noor are much than champion friends; they are family. Growing up arsenic outcasts successful the tiny godforsaken municipality of Juniper, California, they recognize each different the mode nary 1 other does. Until The Fight, which destroys their enslaved with the swift fury of a prima exploding.   

Now, Sal scrambles to tally the household motel arsenic his parent Misbah’s wellness fails and his grieving begetter loses himself to alcoholism. Noor, meanwhile, walks a harrowing tightrope: moving astatine her wrathful uncle’s liquor store portion hiding the information that she’s applying to assemblage truthful she tin flight him—and Juniper—forever.

When Sal’s attempts to prevention the motel spiral retired of control, helium and Noor indispensable inquire themselves what relationship is worth—and what it takes to decision the monsters successful their pasts and the ones successful their midst.  

From 1 of today’s astir cherished and bestselling young big authors comes a breathtaking caller of young love, aged regrets, and forgiveness—one that’s some tragic and poignant successful its tender ferocity.