Award Winner: Youth Media Awards 2022

Amina’s Song

by Hena Khan

Age 08 or older

Community: Egyptian/Egyptian American, Korean/Korean American, Pakistani/Pakistani American

Bright Star

by Yuyi Morales

Age 04 or older

Community: Mexican/Mexican American

Coqui in the City

by Nomar Perez

Age 03 or older

Community: Puerto Rican

De aqui como el coqui

by Nomar Perez

Age 03 or older

Community: Puerto Rican

Emmanuel’s Dream: The True Story of Emmanuel Ofosu Yeboah

by Laurie Ann Thompson

Age 05 or older

Community: Ghanaian/Ghanaian American

Fifteen Hundred Miles from the Sun

by Jonny Garza Villa

Age 13 or older

Community: Mexican/Mexican American, Vietnamese/Vietnamese American

Finding Junie Kim

by Ellen Oh

Age 08 or older

Community: Korean/Korean American

Home Is Not a Country

by Safia Elhillo

Age 12 or older

Community: Muslim/Muslim American, Sudanese/Sudanese American

How Moon Fuentez Fell in Love with the Universe

by Raquel Vasquez Gilliand

Age 14 or older

Community: Colombian/Colombian American, Mexican/Mexican American

La Ultima Cuentista

by Donna Barba Higuera

Age 12 or older

Community: Mexican/Mexican American

Lucero

by Yuyi Morales

Age 04 or older

Community: Animals/Allegory, Mexican/Mexican American

May Your Life Be Deliciosa

by Michael Genhart

Age 05 or older

Community: Mexican/Mexican American

Perfectly Parvin

by Olivia Abtahi

Age 12 or older

Community: Iranian/Iranian American, Korean/Korean American, Mexican/Mexican American, Muslim/Muslim American

Red, White, and Whole

by Rajani LaRocca

Age 08 or older

Community: Indian/Indian American

Somewhere Between Bitter and Sweet

by Laekan Zea Kemp

Age 14 or older

Community: Mexican/Mexican American

The Last Cuentista

by Donna

Age 12 or older

Community: Mexican/Mexican American

Watercress

by Andrea Wang

Age 05 and older

Community: Chinese/Chinese American

Where I Belong

by Marcia Argueta Mickelson

Age 11 or older

Community: Guatemalan/Guatemalan American