2024 Winners of the Paterson Prize for Book for Young People

The Poetry Center at PCCC is happy to announce the 2024 PATERSON PRIZE FOR BOOKS FOR YOUNG PEOPLE winners for three grade levels. In each category, a book(s) is selected, which in the opinion of the judges, is the most outstanding book for young people published in the previous year.

Grades Pre K - 3

Carla Ketner, Ted Kooser: More Than a Local Wonder (University of Nebraska Press, Lincoln, NE)

René Colato Lainez, Do I Belong Here? / Es este mi lugar? (Arte Público Press, Hoúston, TX)

Grades 4 - 6

Kevin Carey, Junior Miles and the Junkman (Regal Hoúse Públishing / Fitzroy Books, Raleigh, NC)

Tracy Occomy Crowder, Montgomery and the Case of the Golden Key (Tú Books, an imprint of Lee & Low Books Inc., New York, NY)

Grades 7 - 12

S. E. Reed, My Heart is Hurting (Wild Ink Públishing, Camphill, PA)

Anica Mrose Rissi, Wishing Season (Qúill Tree Books, An Imprint of Harper Collins Públishers, New York, NY)

Guidelines and an application for the 2025 award are available on the Poetry Center's AWARDS page.