Celebrate Excellence in Children’s Literature: The Golden Kite Award Finalists

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Golden Kite Finalists

Sid Fleischman Humor Award

On a Wing and a Tear by Cynthia Leitich Smith (Heartdrum)

Harriet Tells the Truth by Elana K. Arnold (Walden Pond Press)

The Truth About Fifth Grade by Kim Tomsic and Mark Parisi (HarperCollins)

The Great Zoodini by PJ Gardner (Balzer + Bray)

Picture Book Text

The Man Who Didn't Like Animals by Deborah Underwood (Clarion)

The Night Market by Seina Wedlick (Random House Studio)

The One & Only Googoosh by Azadeh Westergaard (Viking)

Emergency Quarters by Carlos Matias (Katherine Tegen Books)

Small Things Mended by Casey W. Robinson (Rocky Pond Books)

Picture Book Illustration

Eloisa's Musical Window illustrated by John Parra, written by Margarita Engle (Atheneum)

Joyful Song: A Naming Story illustrated by Susan Gal, written by Leslea Newman (Levine Querido)

The One and Only Googoosh written and illustrated by Azadeh Westergaard (Viking)

Rumi, Poet of Joy and Love written and illustrated by Rashin Kheiriyeh (NorthSouth Books)

Home in a Lunchbox written and illustrated by Cherry Mo (Penguin Workshop)

Nonfiction Younger Reader

Comet Chaser by Pamela S. Turner (Chronicle)

Ida B. Wells Marches For The Vote by Dinah Johnson (Christy Ottaviano Books)

One Day This Tree Will Fall by Leslie Barnard Booth (Margaret K. McElderry Books)

The Painter and The President: Gilbert Stuart's Brush with George Washington by Sarah Albee (Calkins Creek)

Fighting with Love: The Legacy of John Lewis by Lesa Cline-Ransome (Paula Wiseman Books)

Nonfiction Older Reader

Rising From the Ashes by Paula Yoo (Norton)

Spirit Sleuths: How Magicians and Detectives Exposed the Ghost Hoaxes by Gail Jarrow (Calkins Creek)

The Gender Binary is a Big Lie: Infinite Identities Around the World by Lee Wind (Zest Books)

Uprooted: A Memoir About What Happens When Your Family Moves Back by Ruth Chan (Roaring Brook Press)

Virus Hunters: How Science Protects People When Outbreaks and Pandemics Strike by Amy Cherrix (HarperCollins)

Middle Grade 

The Bletchley Riddle by Ruta Sepetys and Steve Sheinkin (Viking)

The Deadly Daylight by Ash Harrier (Holiday House)

Finn and Ezra's Bar Mitzvah Time Loop by Joshua S. Levy (Katherine Teagan)

The Other Side of Tomorrow by Tina Cho, art by Deb JJ Lee (HarperAlley)

A Two-Placed Heart by Doan Phuong Nguyen (Lee and Low)

Illustrated Older Reader

Uprooted: A Memoir About What Happens When Your Family Moves Back by Ruth Chan (Roaring Brook Press)

Fake Chinese Sounds by Jing Jing Tsong (Kokila)

The Monkey King and the World of Myths: The Monster and the Maze by Maple Lam (Penguin)

Rover and Speck: It's a Gas! by Jonathan Roth (Kids Can Press)

Meet Me On Mercer Street by Booki Vivat (Scholastic)

Wagnificent by Bethanie Murguia (Roaring Brook Press)

Young Adult

Sync by Ellen Hopkins (Nancy Paulsen Books)

Girls Like Her by Melanie Sumrow (Balzer + Bray)

Trajectory by Cambria Gordon (Scholastic)

Kill Her Twice by Stacey Lee (Putnam)

The Breakup Lists by Adib Khorram (Dial)