2024 Cybils Award Winners
Winners for the 2024 Children’s and Young Adults Bloggers’ Literary Awards (2024 Cybils) have been announced. Books of genre interest follow.
Young Adult Speculative Fiction
- WINNER: Hearts Still Beating, Brooke Archer (Putnam Young Readers)
- The Hedgewitch of Foxhall, Anna Bright (HarperTeen)
- We Mostly Come Out at Night: 15 Queer Tales of Monsters, Angels & Other Creatures, Rob Costello, (Running Press)
- Otherworldly, F.T. Lukens (Margaret K. McElderry)
- The Invocations, Krystal Sutherland (Nancy Paulsen)
- Dead Things Are Closer Than They Appear, Robin Wasley (Simon & Schuster Young Readers)
- Blood at the Root, LaDarrion Williams (Labyrinth Road)
Elementary/Middle Grade Speculative Fiction
- WINNER: Impossible Creatures, Katherine Rundell (Knopf Young Readers)
- Accidental Demons, Clare Edge (HarperCollins)
- Kwame Crashes the Underworld, Craig Kofi Farmer (Roaring Brook)
- Max in the House of Spies: A Tale of World War II, Adam Gidwitz (Dutton Young Readers)
- Sona and the Golden Beasts, Rajani LaRocca (Quill Tree)
- Benji Zeb Is a Ravenous Werewolf, Deke Moulton (Tundra)
- Splinter & Ash, Marieke Nijkamp (Greenwillow)
The Cybils Awards “aims to recognize the children’s and young adult authors and illustrators whose books combine the highest literary merit and popular appeal.” Winners are chosen by over 100 volunteer judges.
For more information, including a complete list of winners, see the Cybils official site. Locus has covered past genre winners for the Cybils.
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