YALSA Reveals Finalists for Morris Award

by SLJ staff Dec 10, 2020

The buildup to the 2021 Youth Media Awards (YMA) continues as YALSA announced the five finalists for the William C. Morris Debut Award, which is given each year to a book published by a first-time author writing for teens “and celebrating impressive new voices in young adult literature.”

The 2021 finalists are:

Black Girl Unlimited: The Remarkable Story of a Teenage Wizard by Echo Brown

The Black Kids by Christina Hammonds Reed

If These Wings Could Fly by Kyrie McCauley

It Sounded Better in My Head by Nina Kenwood

Woven in Moonlight by Isabel Ibañez

The winner of the Morris Award will be announced during the virtual YMA ceremony on January 25.

Stay tuned!

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