- Award Category: Best in Middle Grade Award Category Record # 975
- Award Type: Ignyte Award
- Display Order: 30
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Note: For works intended for the middle grade audience.
| 2020 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Win | Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky | Kwame Mbalia |
| --- Finalists ------- | ||
| * | Just South of Home | Karen Strong |
| * | Other Words for Home | Jasmine Warga |
| * | Sal and Gabi Break the Universe | Carlos Hernandez |
| * | The Mystwick School of Musicraft | Jessica Khoury |
| 2021 | ||
| Win | Ghost Squad | Claribel A. Ortega |
| --- Finalists ------- | ||
| * | A Wish in the Dark | Christina Soontornvat |
| * | Curse of the Wish Eater | Michael Thomas Ford |
| * | Maya and the Rising Dark | Rena Barron |
| * | Race to the Sun | Rebecca Roanhorse |
| 2022 | ||
| --- Finalists ------- | ||
| * | Amari and the Night Brothers | B. B. Alston |
| * | Josephine Against the Sea | Shakirah Bourne |
| * | Root Magic | Eden Royce |
| * | The Insiders | Mark Oshiro |
| * | Tristan Strong Keeps Punching | Kwame Mbalia |