The NYSRA Charlotte Award 2021 winners will be celebrated on Monday, Nov. 15 at 7PM via Zoom. 

There will be presentations of the 4 winners from each category (Primary, Intermediate, Middle School, and High School). These authors and illustrators will be presented their awards and give a short speech. Please join us for this prestigious award ceremony. 

Primary Ballot - Can I Be Your Dog? by Troy Cummings and published by Random House

Intermediate Ballot - Write On, Irving Berlin! by Leslie Kimmelman, illustrated by David C. Gardner, published by Sleeping Bear Press

Middle School Ballot - Out of Wonder: Poems Celebrating Poets by Kwame Alexander with Chris Colderley and Marjory Wentworth, illustrated by Ekua Holmes and published by Candlewick Press

High School Ballot - The Walls Have Ears: A Black Spy in the Confederate White House by Hope Irvin Marston and published by White Bird Publications