2021 RI Teen Book Award Nominees

As Many Nows As I Can Get

by Shana Youngsahl

One impulsive moment during the summer before they leave for college, overachievers Scarlett and David plunge into an irresistible swirl of romance, particle physics, and questionable decisions.

Aurora Rising
2021 Honor Book

by Amie Kaufman and Jay Kristoff

The year is 2380, and the graduating cadets of Aurora Academy are being assigned their first missions. They're not the heroes we deserve. They're just the heroes we could find. No one panic.

Birthday

by Meredith Russo

Two kids, Morgan and Eric, are bonded for life after being born on the same day at the same time. We meet them once a year on their shared birthday.

2021 Winner

The Cheerleaders

by Kara Thomas

There are no more cheerleaders in the town of Sunnybrook. There was a car accident, murders, and a suicide - no one wants to be reminded of the girls they lost. But Monica is starting to unravel with her need to know more.

Dear Haiti, Love Alaine

by Maika Moulite and Maritza Moulite

A school presentation goes very wrong. Alaine finds herself suspended, shipped off to Haiti, and writing the report of a lifetime.

Frankly In Love

by David Yoon

Frank Li is in limbo between the traditional expectations of his Korean parents and his Southern California upbringing.

Internment

by Samira Ahmed

Set in a horrifying near-future United States, seventeen-year-old Layla Amin and her parents are forced into an internment camp for Muslim American citizens.

I Wish You All the Best

by Mason Deaver

When Ben comes out to their parents as nonbinary, they're thrown out of their house and forced to move in with their estranged older sister and her husband they've never met.

Kiss Number 8

by Colleen AF Venable

Amanda can't figure out what's so exciting about kissing. All of her seven kisses have been horrible in different ways, but nothing compared to the awfulness that followed Kiss Number Eight.

Laura Dean Keeps Breaking Up with Me

by Mariko Tamaki

Laura Dean is Frederica's dream girl. Only problem is that Laura Dean may not be the greatest girlfriend.

Let Me Hear a Rhyme

by Tiffany D. Jackson

Three Brooklyn teens who plot to turn their murdered friend into a major rap star by pretending he is still alive.

Like a Love Story

by Abdi Nazemian

It's 1989 in New York City, and for three teens, the world is changing. Reza knows he's gay, but all he knows of gay life are the media's images of men dying of AIDS.

Love From A to Z

by S.K. Ali

Zayneb, the only Muslim in class, confronts a racist teacher and is suspended. She takes off for an early spring break in Qatar where she meets up with Adam who has recently been diagnosed with MS.

Ordinary Hazards

by Nikki Grimes

In her own voice, author and poet Nikki Grimes explores her harrowing childhood in a memoir in verse. Growing up with a mother suffering from paranoid schizophrenia and a mostly absent father, she found herself terrorized by babysitters, shunted from foster family to foster family, and preyed upon by those she trusted.

Patron Saints of Nothing

by Randy Ribay

A coming-of-age story about grief, guilt, and the risks Jay, a Filipino-American teenager, takes to uncover the truth about his cousin's murder.

Pet

by Akwaeke Emezi

There are no more monsters, or so the children in the city of Lucille are taught. Jam meets Pet, a creature made of horns and colors and claws, who emerges from one of her mother's paintings and a drop of Jam's blood. She must reconsider what she's been told. Pet has come to hunt a monster, and the shadow of something grim lurks in her best friend's house.

Serpent & Dove

by Shelby Mahurin

Lou is a witch. Witches like her are hunted and burned. Reid is a Chasseur, a witch hunter. A wicked stunt finds them married to each other and falling in love. Love makes a fool of us all.

The Seven Torments of Amy and Craig

by Don Zolidis

The worst thing that's ever happened to Craig is also the best: Amy. Amy and Craig never should've gotten together. Yet somehow they did. Until Amy dumped him. Then got back together again. Over and over and over again.

They Called Us Enemy
2021 Honor Book

by George Takei

A graphic memoir recounting actor/author/activist George Takei's childhood imprisoned within American concentration camps during World War II.

Three Doorways, Wolves Behind Them All

by Laura Ruby

The unforgettable story of two young women--one living, one dead--dealing with loss, desire and the fragility of the American dream during WWII.

We Are Here to Stay

by Susan Kuklin

Meet nine courageous young adults who have lived in the United States with a secret for much of their lives-they are not U.S. citizens. They come from Columbia, Mexico, Ghana, Independent Samoa, and Korea.

XL

by Scott Brown

Will Daughtry is a late-bloomer--at least, that's what everyone tells him. On his sixteenth birthday, Will is just shy of five feet, and he is bitterly resigned to being tiny forever. Then he starts to grow...fast.

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