Goddard Riverside CBC Youth Book Prize for Social Justice
2020
All the Way to the Top: How One Girl’s Fight for Americans with Disabilities Changed Everything, by Annette Bay Pimental; illus. by Nabi H. Ali (Sourcebooks Explore/Sourcebooks Kids)
For Beautiful Black Boys Who Believe in A Better World, by Michael W. Waters; illus. by Keisha Morris (Flyaway Books) — WINNER
Harlem Grown: How One Big Idea Transformed a Neighborhood, by Tony Hillery; illus. by Jessie Hartland (Simon & Schuster/Paula Wiseman Books)
Lizzie Demands a Seat!: Elizabeth Jennings Fights for Streetcar Rights, by Beth Anderson; illus. by E. B. Lewis (Boyds Mill & Kane/Calkins Creek)
2021
Art Of Protest: Creating, Discovering, and Activating Art For Your Revolution, byDe Nichols (Candlewick Press)
Pocket Change Collective: Concrete Kids, by Amyra Leonl illus. by Ashley Lukashevsky (Penguin Workshop)
Pura’s Cuentos: How Pura Belpré Reshaped Libraries with Her Stories, by Annette Bay Pimentel; illus. by Magaly Morales (Harry N. Abrams) — WINNER
Something Happened In Our Park: Standing Together After Gun Violence, by Ann Hazzard, Marietta Collins and Marianne Celano (Magination Press)
Tani’s New Home: A Refugee Finds Hope and Kindness In America, by Tanitoluwa (Tani) Adewumi; illus. by Courtney Dawson (Thomas Nelson/HarperCollins Christian Publishing)
Without Separation: Prejudice, Segregation, and the Case of Roberto Alverez, by Larry Dane Brimner; illus. by Maya Gonzalez (Calkins Creek)
2022
Our World is a Family, by Miry Whitehill and Jennifer Jackson, illustrated by Nomar Perez (Sourcebooks Explore)
Your Planet Needs You: A Kids’ Guide to Reducing Waste and Recycling, by Philip Bunting (Bloomsbury Children’s)
EVICTED! The Struggle for the Right to Vote, by Alice Faye Duncan, illustrated by Charly Palmer (Calkins Creek/Astra Books for Young Readers)
Sanctuary: Kip Tiernan and Rosie’s Place, the Nation’s First Shelter for Women, by Christine McDonnell and Victoria Tentler-Krylov (Candlewick Press)
2023
Food for Hope: How John van Hengel Invented Food Banks for the Hungry by Jeff Gottesfeld (Creston Books) — WINNER
Jane Jacobs: Champion of Cities, Champion of People by Rebecca Pitts (Triangle Square Books)
The Mother of a Movement: Jeanne Manford–Ally, Activist, and Founder of PFLAG by Rob Sanders (Magination Press)
Holding Her Own: The Exceptional Life of Jackie Ormes by Traci N. Todd (Orchard Books)
2024
City Girls by Loretta Lopez (Triangle Square Books for Young Readers)
Everywhere Beauty Is Harlem: The Vision of Photographer Roy DeCarava by Gary Golio (Calkins Creek)
Just One Pebble. One Boy’s Quest to End Hunger by Dianna Wilson Sirkovsky (Clavis Publishing) — WINNER
Rhythm by Jackie Azua Kramer (American Psychological Association Magination Press)
Goddard Riverside Stephan Russo Book Prize for Social Justice
2017
Reading with Patrick, by Michelle Kuo (Random House)
Locking Up Our Own: Crime and Punishment in Black America, by James Forman (Farrar, Straus & Giroux)
Becoming Ms. Burton: From Prison to Recovery to Leading the Fight for Incarcerated Women, by Susan Burton (The New Press) — WINNER
How to Survive a Plague: The Inside Story of How Citizens and Science Tamed AIDS, by David France (A.A. Knopf)
Dream Hoarders: How the American Upper Middle Class Is Leaving Everyone Else in the Dust, Why That Is a Problem, and What to Do About It, by Richard Reeves (Brookings Institute Press)
No One Cares About Crazy People: The Chaos and Heartbreak of Mental Health in America, by Ron Powers (Hachette)
2018
Amity and Prosperity: One Family and the Fracturing of America, by Eliza Griswold (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
High-Risers: Cabrini-Green and the Fate of American Public Housing, by Ben Austen (Harper)
In a Day’s Work: The Fight to End Sexual Violence Against America’s Most Vulnerable Workers, by Bernice Yeung (The New Press) — WINNER
Palaces for the People: How Social Infrastructure Can Help Fight Inequality, Polarization, and the Decline of Civic Life, by Eric Klinenberg (Crown)
Automating Inequality: How High-Tech Tools Profile, Police, and Punish the Poor, by Virginia Eubanks (St. Martin’s Press)
Start Here: A Road Map to Reducing Mass Incarceration, by Greg Berman and Julian Adler (The New Press)
2019
An American Summer: Love and Death in Chicago, by Alex Kotlowitz (Nan A. Talese) — WINNER
No Place on the Corner: The Costs of Aggressive Policing, by Jan Haldipur (NYU Press) — WINNER
Until We Reckon: Violence, Mass Incarceration, and a Road to Repair, by Danielle Sered (The New Press)
Fight Like a Mother: How a Grassroots Movement Took on the Gun Lobby and Why Women Will Change the World, by Shannon Watts (HarperOne)
Guns Down: How to Defeat the NRA and Build a Safer Future with Fewer Guns, by Igor Volsky (The New Press)
Think Black, by Clyde Ford (HarperCollins)
2020
Abandoned: America’s Lost Youth and the Crisis Of Disconnection, by Anne Kim (The New Press) — WINNER
Begin Again: James Baldwin’s America and Its Urgent Lessons for Our Own, by Eddie S. Glaude Jr. (Crown)
Big Dirty Money: The Shocking Injustice and Unseen Cost of White Collar Crime, by Jennifer Taub (Viking)
Golden Gates: Fighting for Housing in America, by Conor Dougherty (Penguin Press)
Open Season: Legalized Genocide of Colored People, by Ben Crump (Amistad)
The Turnaway Study: Ten Years, a Thousand Women, and the Consequences of Having—or Being Denied—an Abortion, by Diana Greene Foster (Scribner)
2021
A Wolf at the Schoolhouse Door: The Dismantling of Public Education and the Future of School, by Jack Schneider and Jennifer Berkshire (The New Press)
Controlling Women: What We Must Do Now to Save Reproductive Freedom, by Kathryn Kolbert & Julie F. Kay (Hachette Books)
In the Shadow Of the Ivory Tower: How Universities Are Plundering Our Cities, by Davarian L. Baldwin (Bold Type Books/Hachette)
Children Under Fire: An American Crisis, by John Woodrow Cox (Ecco/HarperCollins) — WINNER
The Hospital: Life, Death, and Dollars in A Small American Town, by Brian Alexander (St. Martin’s Press/Macmillan)
Undoing Drugs: The Untold Story of Harm Reduction and the Future of Addiction, by Maia Szalavitz (Hachette Go)
2022
Torn Apart: How the Child Welfare System Destroys Black Families–and How Abolition Can Build a Safer World, by Dorothy E. Roberts (Basic Books)
His Name Is George Floyd: One Man’s Life and the Struggle for Racial Justice, by Robert Samuels and Toluse Olorunnipa (Viking)
Invisible Child: Poverty, Survival & Hope in an American City,by Andrea Elliott (Random House)Invisible Child: Poverty, Survival & Hope in an American City,by Andrea Elliott (Random House)
One Fair Wage: Ending Subminimum Pay in America, by Saru Jayaraman (The New Press)
Streets of Gold: America’s Untold Story of Immigrant Success, by Ran Abramitzky and Leah Boustan (PublicAffairs)
The Stolen Year: How COVID Changed Children’s Lives, and Where We Go Now, by Anya Kamenetz (Public Affairs)
2023
Children of the State: Stories of Survival and Hope in the Juvenile Justice System by Jeff Hobbs (Scribner)
Poverty, By America by Matthew Desmond (Crown/Penguin Random House)
The People’s Hospital: Hope and Peril in American Medicine by Ricardo Nuila (Scribner)
The Measure of our Age: Navigating Care, Safety, Money, and Meaning Later in Life by M. T. Connolly (PublicAffairs/Hachette)
Excluded: How Snob Zoning, NIMBYism, and Class Bias Build the Walls We Don’t See by Richard D. Kahlenberg (PublicAffairs/Hachette) — WINNER
2024
Everyone Who Is Gone Is Here: the United States, Central America, and the Making Of A Crisis, by Jonathan Blitzer (Penguin Press) — WINNER
Mass Supervision: Probation, Parole, and the Illusion Of Safety and Freedom by Vincent Schiraldi (The New Press)
Punished For Dreaming: How School Reform Harms Black Children and How We Heal by Bettina L. Love (St. Martin’s Press) — WINNER
Radical Acts Of Justice: How Ordinary People Are Dismantling Mass Incarceration by Jocelyn Simonson (The New Press)
Relinquished: the Politics Of Adoption and the Privilege Of American Motherhood by Gretchen Sisson (St. Martin’s Press)
The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring Of Childhood Is Causing An Epidemic Of Mental Illness by Jonathan Haidt (Penguin Press)
