In the Margins Award
{{Short description|Annual literary award}}
The In the Margins Award, established in 2013, is an annual literary award presented to fiction and nonfiction "self published books by, for and about people of color living in the margins."{{Cite web|date=2016-02-20|title=History|url=https://inthemarginssite.blog/about-2/|access-date=2022-01-31|website=In the Margins Book Awards|language=en}} The primary audience of the books is generally individuals aged 9-21 who are Black, Indigenous People of Color; "youth from a street culture," "youth in restrictive custody," and/or "youth who are reluctant readers."{{Cite web|date=2016-02-21|title=About|url=https://inthemarginssite.blog/about-3/|access-date=2022-01-31|website=In the Margins Book Awards|language=en}}
The In the Margins Award was established as part of the Library Services for Youth in Custody but since 2017, has operated independently.{{Cite web|date=2016-02-20|title=History|url=https://inthemarginssite.blog/about-2/|access-date=2022-01-31|website=In the Margins Book Awards|language=en}}
Recipients
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|+In the Margins Award Top 10 (2014-present) !Year !Genre !Author !Title !Ref. | |
| rowspan="10" |2014
| rowspan="8" |Fiction |{{sortname|Paul|Langan}} |Survivor | |
| {{sortname|Sharon E|McKay}} and Daniel Lafance (Illus.)
|War Brothers: The Graphic Novel | |
| {{sortname|Terra Elan|McVoy}}
|Criminal | |
| {{sortname|Meg|Medina}}
|Yaqui Delgado Wants to Kick Your Ass | |
| {{sortname|Susan|Nussbaum}}
|Good Kings, Bad Kings | |
| {{sortname|Jeff|Rivera}}
|No Matter What | |
| {{sortname|Darlene|Ryan}}
|Pieces of Me | |
| {{sortname|Pamela Samuels|Young}}
|Anybody’s Daughter | |
| rowspan="2" |Nonfiction
|{{sortname|M. K.|Asante}} | |
| {{sortname|Marilyn Denise|Jones}}
|From Crack to College and Vice Versa | |
| rowspan="10" |2015
| rowspan="5" |Fiction |{{sortname|Lynne|Ewing}} |The Lure | |
| {{sortname|Ashley|Little}}
|Anatomy of a Girl Gang | |
| {{sortname|Kekla|Magoon}}
|How It Went Down | |
| {{sortname|Jason|Reynolds}}
|When I Was the Greatest | |
| {{sortname|P. D.|Workman}}
|Ruby: Between the Cracks (Volume 1) | |
| rowspan="5" |Nonfiction
|{{sortname|Pacc|Butler}} |From God’s Monster to the Devil’s Angel | |
| {{sortname|Ebony|Canion}}
|Left for Dead | |
| {{sortname|Michelle|Miles}}
|The High Price I Had to Pay 2: Sentenced to 30 Years as a Nonviolent, First Time Offender | |
| {{sortname|Rayshawn|Wilson}}
|Lionheart: Coming from Where I’m From | |
| {{sortname|Angela Beth|Zusman}}
|The Griots of Oakland: Voices from the African American Oral History Project | |
| rowspan="10" |2016
| rowspan="5" |Fiction |{{sortname|Kevin|Deutch}} |The Triangle: A Year on the Ground with New York’s Bloods and Crips | |
| {{sortname|E. R.|Frank}}
|Dime | |
| {{sortname|Peggy|Kern}}
|Little Peach | |
| {{sortname|Patti|Laboucane-Benson}}
|The Outside Circle | |
| {{sortname|PD|Workman}}
|Tattooed Teardrops | |
| rowspan="5" |Nonfiction
|{{sortname|Tewhan|Butler}} |America’s Massacre: The Audacity of Despair and a Message of Hope | |
| {{sortname|Alton|Carter}}
|The Boy Who Carried Bricks: A True Story of Survival | |
| {{sortname|Tony|Lewis, Jr.}}
|Slugg: A Boy’s Life in the Age of Mass Incarceration | |
| {{sortname|Richard|Ross|dab=author}}
|Girls In Justice | |
| {{sortname|Julian|Voloj}}
|Ghetto Brother: Warrior to Peacemaker | |
| rowspan="10" |2017
| rowspan="2" |Fiction |{{sortname|Christy Lynn|Abram}} |Little Miss Somebody | |
| {{sortname|Michael|McLellan}}
|American Flowers | |
| rowspan="8" |Nonfiction
|{{sortname|Alton|Carter}} |Aging Out: A True Story | |
| {{sortname|Kathleen|Glasgow}}
|Girl in Pieces | |
| {{sortname|Ben|Westhoff}}
|Original Gangstas: The Untold Story of Dr. Dre, Eazy-E, Ice Cube, Tupac Shakur, and the Birth of West Coast Rap | |
| {{sortname|S. C.|Sterling}}
|Teenage Degenerate | |
| {{sortname|Ni-Ni|Simone}}
|Dear Yvette | |
| {{sortname|C.|Desire}}
|Other Broken Things | |
| {{sortname|Jeffry W.|Johnston}}
|The Truth | |
| {{sortname | Free Minds Book Club}}
|The Untold Story of the Real Me: Young Voices from Prison |
| rowspan="10" |2018
| rowspan="7" |Fiction |Beacon House Writers. K. Crutcher (Ed.) with Z. Gatti (Design) |The Day Tajon Got Shot | |
| {{sortname|Peter|Edwards|dab=author}}
|The Biker’s Brother | |
| {{sortname|Beth|Goobie}}
|The Pain Eater | |
| {{sortname|William|Kowalski}}
|Jumped In | |
| {{sortname|Tony|Medina}} with John Jennings and Stacey Robinson (Illus.)
|I am Alfonso Jones | |
| {{sortname|Colleen|Nelson|dab=author}}
|Blood Brothers | |
| {{sortname| Christopher|Paslay}}
|White Flight | |
| rowspan="2" |Nonfiction
|{{sortname|Eve|Porinchak}} |One Cut | |
| {{sortname|Taura|Stinson}} and Stacey Debono (Eds.) and Glenn Adhama (Illus.)
|100 Things Every Black Girl Should Know | |
| Poetry
|{{sortname|rm|drake}} |Broken Flowers: And Other Stairways to Heaven | |
| rowspan="12" |2019
| rowspan="4" |Fiction |{{sortname|Hobson|Brandon}} |Where the Dead Sit Talking | rowspan="12" |{{Cite web|date=2019-02-06|title=2019 Top Ten ITM Titles|url=https://inthemarginssite.blog/1445-2/|access-date=2022-01-31|website=In the Margins Book Awards|language=en}}{{Cite web|last=Parrott|first=Kiera|date=2019-02-06|title="In the Margins" 2019 Book Awards Announced|url=https://www.slj.com/?detailStory=in-the-margins-2019|access-date=2022-01-31|website=School Library Journal}} | |
| {{sortname|2E G |
|Queenpin
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|{{sortname|Brown|Kevin}}
|Hard Knocks High: Darkskins and Redbones
|-
|{{sortname|Colfer|Eoin}}, Andrew Donkin, and Giovanni Rigano (Illus.)
|Illegal
|-
| rowspan="8" |Nonfiction
|{{sortname|Goozh|Judi}} and Sue Jeweler
|Tell Me About When Moms and Dads Go to Jail: Tell Me About Jail
|-
|{{sortname|Goozh|Judi}} and Sue Jeweler
|Tell Me About When Moms and Dads Come Home From Jail: Tell Me About Jail
|-
|{{sortname|Griffin-Wallace|Valencia}}
|Motherless Child: A Journey of Growing Up and Forgiving
|-
|{{sortname|Hawkins|Lamont U-God}}
|Raw: My Journey Into the Wu-Tang
|-
|{{sortname|Hobson|Brandon}}
|Where the Dead Sit Talking
|-
|{{sortname|Krosoczka|Jarrett}}
|Hey, Kiddo
|-
|{{sortname|Latin American Youth Center Writers |}}and Santiago Casares
|Voces sin Fronteras: Our Stories, Our Truth
|-
|{{sortname|Ramos|Nonieqa}}
|The Disturbed Girl’s Dictionary
|-
| rowspan="10" |2020
| rowspan="5" |Fiction
|{{sortname|Tasha|Spillett-Sumner}} and Natasha Donavan
|Surviving the City
|-
|{{sortname|Sonia|Patel}}
|-
|{{sortname|René Colato|Laínez}} and Fabricio Vanden Broeck
|My Shoes and I: Crossing Three Borders / Mis Zapatos y Yo: Cruzando tres Fronteras
|-
|{{sortname|Annette D.|Taylor}}
|Dreams on Fire
|-
|{{sortname|Erika T.|Wurth}}
|You Who Enter Here
|-
| rowspan="5" |Nonfiction
|{{sortname|Tytianna N. M.|Wells}} and Ashley Cathey
|When Hip Hop Met Poetry: An Urban Love Story
|-
|{{sortname|Johnathan|Harris}} and Gary Leach
|Colorblind: A Story on Racism
|-
|{{sortname|Jean|Mendoza}}, Debbie Reese, and Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz
|An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the United States for Young People (ReVisioning American History for Young People)
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|{{sortname|Rex|Ogle}}
|-
|{{sortname|Damon|Young}}
|What Doesn’t Kill You Makes You Stronger
|-
| rowspan="8" |2021
| rowspan="4" |Fiction
|{{sortname|Normandy D.|Piccolo}}
|Why is Kristyn a Kutter?
|-
|{{sortname|James|Price|dab=author}}
|The Comeback: I Raised These Streets
|-
|{{sortname|David A.|Robertson}}, Scott B. Henderson, and Donavan Yaciuk
|The Reckoner Rise: Breakdown
|-
|{{sortname|Michael W.|Waters}} and Keisha Morris
|For Beautiful Black Boys Who Believe in a Better World
|-
| rowspan="4" |Nonfiction
|{{sortname|Mark|Bleschke}}
|Into the Streets: A Young Person’s Visual History of Protest in the United States
|-
|{{sortname|Heather|Gale}} and Mika Song
|Ho'onani: Hula Warrior
|-
|{{sortname|Patrisse|Khan-Cullors}} and Asha Bendele
|When They Call You a Terrorist: A Story of Black Lives Matter and the Power to Change the World
|-
|{{sortname|Passage Academy Students at Belmont|}}
|Everything I Been Through
|-
| rowspan="10" |2022
| rowspan="4" |Fiction
|{{sortname|Matt de la Peña and Christian Robinson
|Milo Imagines the World
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|{{sortname|Sharon G.|Flake}}
|The Life I’m In
|-
|{{sortname|Free Minds Writers|}}
|They Called Me 299-359: Poetry by the Incarcerated Youth of Free Minds
|-
|{{sortname|Emolie|Kpadea}}, Japan Spells, Damarco Taylor, and Rob Gibson
|And Justice for Who?
|-
| rowspan="6" |Nonfiction
|{{sortname|John|Lewis}}, Andrew Aydin, L. Fury, and Nate Powell
|Run: Book One
|-
|{{sortname|Chella|Man}} and Ashley Lukashevsky
|Continuum (A Pocket Change Collective)
|-
|{{sortname|Marcia|Argueta Mickelson}}
|Where I Belong
|-
|{{sortname|Victorya|Rouse}}
|Finding Refuge: Real Life Immigration Stories From Young People
|-
|{{sortname|Elisabet|Velasquez}}
|When We Make It
|-
|{{sortname|Frank|Abe}}, Tamiko Nimura, Ross Ishikawa, and Matt Sasaki
|We Hereby Refuse: Japanese American Resistance at Wartime Incarceration
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