2021 Florida Book Award Winners

Young Children's Literature

Isabel and Her Colores Go to School book cover
By: Alexandra Alessandri
 Gold
Book cover for Stompin' at the Savoy: How Chick Webb Became the King of Drums
By: Moira Rose Donohue
Silver
Book cover for Stitch by Stitch: Cleve Jones and the AIDS Memorial Quilt
By: Rob Sanders
Bronze

Older Children's Literature

Book cover for Concealed
By: Christina Diaz Gonzalez
 Gold
Book cover for Wild River
By: Rodman Philbrick
Silver
Book cover for Golden Gate
By: James Ponti
Bronze

General Nonfiction

Book cover for Battle for the Big Top: P.T. Barnum, James Bailey, John Ringling, and the Death-Defying Saga of the American Circus
By: Les Standiford
 Gold
Book cover for Race, Crime, and Policing in the Jim Crow South: African Americans and Law Enforcement in Birmingham, Memphis, and New Orleans, 1920–1945
By: Brandon T. Jett
Silver
Book cover of The Princess Spy
By: Larry Loftis
Bronze

General Fiction

Matrix
By: Lauren Groff
 Gold
Book cover of Infinite Country
By: Patricia Engel
Silver
Boo cover of Milk Blood Heat
By: Dantiel W. Moniz
Bronze
Book cover for Rock Eaters
By: Brenda Peynado
Bronze

Florida Nonfiction

Book cover of The Swamp Peddlers: How Lot Sellers, Land Scammers, and Retirees Built Modern Florida and Transformed the American Dream
By: Jason Vuic
 Gold
Book cover for Father James Page: An Enslaved Preacher's Climb To Freedom
By: Larry Eugene Rivers
Silver
Book cover for The Nine Lives of Florida's Famous Key Marco Cat
By: Austin J. Bell
Bronze

Poetry

Book cover for Danzirly
By: Gloria Muñoz
 Gold
Book cover for Pine
By: Julia Koets
Silver
Book cover for The Places That Hold
By: John Davis Jr.
Bronze

Popular Fiction

Book cover for The Archer's Thread
By: Noel Zamot
 Gold
Book cover for Blowback
By: Al Pessin
Silver
Book cover fro A Killer's Daughter
By: Jenna Kernan
Bronze

Spanish-Language

Book Cover for Vacaciones sin hotel: Antología de autores del Sur de la Florida
By: Hernán Vera Álvarez et al.
 Gold
Book cover for Etnia, raza y sexualidad en la dramaturgia femenina hispano-caribeña en los Estados Unidos
By: Carmen Duarte
Silver
Book cover for El reino de la infancia- Memorias de mi vida en Cuba
By: Uva de Aragón
Bronze

Visual Arts

Book cover for The Art of Birds- Grace and Motion in the Wild
By: Jim Miller
 Gold

Young Adult Literature

Book cover for ROXY
By: Neal Shusterman and Jarrod Shusterman
 Gold