2014 American Indian Youth Literature Awards

2014 American Indian Youth Literature Awards

The American Indian Library Association is pleased to announce the 2014 American Indian Youth Literature Award winners. The awards were created to identify and honor the very best writing and illustrations by and about American Indians, Alaska Natives, Canadian First Nations, and Native Hawaiians. The winning and honor titles convey the past and present of the American Indian experience and are given in three categories—Picture Book, Middle School and Young Adult. 

Picture Book

Award Winner:

Caribou Song: 
Atihko Nikamon/Ateek Oonagamoon

Tomson Highway, author

John Rombough, illustrator

Fifth House, 2012

Middle School

Award Winner:

How I Became a Ghost: A Choctaw Trail of Tears Story

Tim Tingle

The Roadrunner Press, 2013

Middle School
Honor Book:

Danny Blackgoat, Navajo Prisoner

Tim Tingle

7th Generation, 2013

Young Adult 

Award Winner:

Killer of Enemies

Joseph Bruchac

Tu Books, 2013

Young Adult 

Honor Book:

If I Ever Get Out of Here

Eric Gansworth

Arthur A. Levine Books, 2013