2021 Rebecca Caudill Young Readers' Book Award Nominees

Becoming Kareem by Kareen Abdul-Jabbar with Raymond Obstfeld
Small Spaces by Katherine Arden
Sweep: The Story of a Girl and Her Mother by Jonathan Auxier
Drum Roll, Please by Lisa Jenn Bigelow
Twelve Days in May: Freedom Ride 1961 by Larry Dane Brimner
Me, Frida, and the Secret of the Peacock Ring by Angela Cervantes
New Kid by Jerry Craft
The Only Road by Alexandra Diaz
The Parker Inheritance by Varian Johnson
Stormy Seas: Stories of Young Boat Refugees
Nowhere Boy by Katherine Marsh
The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl by Stacy McAnulty
Resistance by Jennifer A. Nielsen
Spirit Hunters by Ellen Oh
A Good Kind of Trouble by Lisa Moore Ramee
Long Way Down by Jason Reynolds
Amal Unbound by Aisha Saeed
Speechless by Adam P. Schmitt
Nightbooks by J. A. White
​Front Desk by Kelly Yang