THE 2015 PATERSON PRIZE FOR BOOKS FOR YOUNG PEOPLE
Grades Pre-K – 3
Jean-François Dumont, The Sheep Go On Strike (Eerdmans Books for Young Readers, Grand Rapids, MI)
Edith Hope Fine, Sleepytime Me (Random House Children’s Books, New York, NY)
Grades 4 – 6
Kwame Alexander, The Crossover (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Books, New York, NY)
Amy Gordon, Painting the Rainbow (Holiday House, New York, NY)
Grades 7 – 12
Isabel Quintero, Gabi, A Girl in Pieces (Cinco Puntos Press, El Paso, TX)
Lydia Millet, Pills and Starships (Black Sheep/Akashic Books, New York, NY)
Honor Books – 2015 Paterson Prize for Books for Young People
- Skila Brown, Caminar (Candlewick Press, Somerville, MA)
- Mary Newell DePalma, Two Little Birds (Eerdmans Books for Young Readers, Grand Rapids, MI)
- Russell Freedman, Because They Marched: The People’s Campaign for Voting Rights That Changed America (Holiday House, New York, NY)
- Susan Kuklin, Beyond Magenta: Transgender Teens Speak Out (Candlewick Press, Somerville, MA)
- Bobbi Miller, The Girls of Gettysburg (Holiday House, New York, NY)
- Linda Vigen Phillips, Crazy (Eerdmans Books for Young Readers, Grand Rapids, MI)
- Chris Platt, Wind Dancer (Peachtree Publishers, Atlanta, GA)
- Mara Rockliff, The Grudge Keeper (Peachtree Publishers, Atlanta, GA)
- Julie Sternberg, The Top-Secret Diary of Celie Valentine: Friendship Over (Boyds Mills Press, Honesdale, PA)
- Giovanna Zoboli & Simona Mulazzani, The Big Book of Slumber (Eerdmans Books for Young Readers, Grand Rapids, MI)
- CeCelia R. Zorn, Angels Don’t Get Tattoos (Dog Ear Publishing, Indianapolis, IN)