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
- 171 Videos
- 67 Book Readings
- 73 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
Milo Imagines the World
by Matt de la Peña and Christian Robinson
(Fiction Winner, 2022)
39 Resources10 Awards
An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States for Young People
by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, Jean Mendoza, and Debbie Reese
(Nonfiction Honor, 2020)
38 Resources10 Awards
Run Book One
by John Lewis, Andrew Aydin, L. Fury, and Nate Powell
(Nonfiction Winner, 2022)
36 Resources5 Awards
Illegal
by Eoin Colfer, Andrew Donkin, and Giovanni Rigano
(Fiction Honor, 2019)
22 Resources8 Awards
Mid-Air
by Alicia D. Williams and Danica Novgorodoff
(Fiction Selection, 2025)
20 Resources11 Awards
Rising from the Ashes: Los Angeles, 1992
by Paula Yoo
(Nonfiction Selection, 2025)
17 Resources10 Awards
I Am Alfonso Jones
by Tony Medina, Stacey Robinson, and John Jennings
(Fiction Honor, 2018)
16 Resources4 Awards
Surviving the City
by Tasha Spillett and Natasha Donovan
(Fiction Winner, 2020)
16 Resources5 Awards
The Outside Circle: A Graphic Novel
by Patti Laboucane-Benson and Kelly Mellings
(Fiction Honor, 2016)
15 Resources3 Awards
The Rez Doctor
by Gitz Crazyboy, Veronika Barinova, Azby Whitecalf, and Toben Racicot
(Nonfiction Selection, 2025)
15 Resources7 Awards
Breathe: Journeys to Healthy Binding
by Maia Kobabe and Sarah Peitzmeier
(Nonfiction Selection, 2025)
14 Resources3 Awards
The Rent Collectors: Exploitation, Murder, and Redemption in Immigrant LA
by Jesse Katz
(Social Action Winner, 2025)
13 Resources2 Awards
War Brothers: The Graphic Novel
by Sharon McKay and Daniel LaFrance
(Fiction Honor, 2014)
12 Resources3 Awards
My Shoes And I / Mis Zapatos y Yo
by René Colato Laínez and Fabricio Vanden Broeck
(Fiction Honor, 2020)
12 Resources1 Awards
A Girl Called Echo Omnibus
by Katherena Vermette, Scott Henderson, and Donovan Yaciuk
(Social Action Selection, 2025)
12 Resources2 Awards
Little by Little: You Can Change the World
by Sonya Ballantyne and Rhael McGregor
(Social Action Selection, 2025)
11 Resources3 Awards
Freeing Teresa: A True Story about My Sister and Me
by Franke James, Billiam James, and Teresa Heartchild
(Nonfiction Selection, 2025)
11 Resources2 Awards
We Refuse: A Forceful History of Black Resistance
(Social Action Selection, 2025)
11 Resources2 Awards
Into the Streets: A Young Person's Visual History of Protest in the United States
(Nonfiction Honor, 2021)
10 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)
10 Resources2 Awards
Dear Ruby, Hear Our Hearts
by Ruby Bridges and John Jay Cabuay
(Social Action Selection, 2025)
10 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)
10 Resources4 Awards
Broken: Transforming Child Protective Services--Notes of a Former Caseworker
(Social Action Selection, 2025)
10 Resources2 Awards
Resist: How a Century of Young Black Activists Shaped America
by Rita Omokha
(Social Action Selection, 2025)
10 Resources2 Awards
Voces Sin Fronteras: Our Stories, Our Truth
by Latin American Youth Center
(Nonfiction Winner, 2019)
9 Resources3 Awards
