PADIBA Awards 2025
The 2025 Pedro and Daniel Intersectionality Book Awards Longlists and Commended Titles have been announced.
These high quality books with intersectional protagonists were chosen by a judging committee of Read Your World, Inc. board members.
Popular book influencers Julie Fouts Majerčák and Jennifer LaGarde will join the judging committee to choose the winners and finalists from each longlist.
The winner and finalists for each category [PB/GN and MG/YA] will be announced in late April. Each winner will receive $1500.
The 2025 Pedro and Daniel Intersectionality Book Awards
Longlist: Picture Books and Graphic Novels
A Kurta to Remember (Sleeping Bear Press)
Written by Gauri Dalvi Pandya, Illustrated by Avani Dwivedi
A Little Bit of Everything (Sleeping Bear Press)
Written by Meghana Narayan, Illustrated by Michelle Carlos
Joyful Song: A Naming Story (Levine Querido)
Written by Lesléa Newman, Illustrated by Susan Gal
Love of the Half-Eaten Peach (Reycraft Books)
Written by Lee Wind, Illustrated by Jieting Chen
Lupita’s Brown Ballet Slippers (Beaming Books)
Written by Steena Hernandez, Illustrated by Melissa Castillo
Next Level: A Hymn in Gratitude for Neurodiversity (Tilbury House)
Written by Samara Cole Doyon, Illustrated by Kaylani Juanita
Sister Friend (Abrams Books for Young Readers)
Written by Jamilah Thompkins-Bigelow, Illustrated by Shahrzad Maydani
Snow Steps (Worthy Kids)
Written by Karen Latchana Kenney, Illustrated by Irina Avgustinovich
This is My Shabbat (Green Bean Books)
Written by Chris Barash, Illustrated by Aviel Basil
Wild Greens, Beautiful Girl (Sleeping Bear Press)
Written by Erica Lee Schlaikjer, Illustrated by Chinyee Chiu
The 2025 Pedro and Daniel Intersectionality Book Awards
Longlist: Middle Grade and Young Adult Novels
A Two-Placed Heart (Tu Books, Lee & Low Books)
Written by Doan Phuong Nguyen
Across So Many Seas (Nancy Paulsen Books, Penguin Random House)
Written by Ruth Behar
Benji Zeb is a Ravenous Werewolf (Tundra, Penguin Random House)
Written by Deke Moulton
Lockjaw (Tundra, Penguin Random House)
Written by Matteo L. Cerilli
My So-Called Family (Farrar Straus Giroux, MacMillan)
Written by Gia Gordon
The Color of Sound (Carolrhoda Lab, Lerner Publishing Group)
Written by Emily Barth Isler
The Diamond Explorer (Dutton Books for Young Readers, Penguin Random House)
Written by Kao Kalia Yang
The Maid and the Crocodile (Amulet Books, Abrams)
Written by Jordan Ifueko
The No-Girlfriend Rule (Atheneum Books for Young Readers; Simon & Schuster)
Written by Christen Randall
They Thought They Buried Us (Carolrhoda Lab, Lerner Publishing Group)
Written by Noneiqa Ramos
The 2025 Pedro and Daniel Intersectionality Book Awards
Commended Titles: Picture Books and Graphic Novels
Philomel Books (Penguin Random House)
Written by Nadia Salomon, Illustrated by London Ladd
Abuelita’s Gift: A Día de Muertos Story
Knopf Books for Young Readers (Penguin Random House)
Written by Mariana Ríos Ramírez, Illustrated by Sara Palacios
Kokila (Penguin Random House)
Written by Kao Kalia Yang, Illustrated by Khou Vue
Gloriana Presente: A First Day of School Story
Christy Ottaviano Books (Little, Brown Books for Young Readers)
Written by Alyssa Reynoso-Morris, Illustrated by Doris M. Rodríguez-Graber
Ladybug Launch: Inspired by a True Story of Chinitas in Space
Margaret K. McElderry (Simon & Schuster)
Written by Natalia Ojeda and Melissa Trempe, Illustrated by Manuela Montoya
Mercedes Sosa: Voice of the People
Children’s Book Press (Lee & Low Books)
Written and illustrated by Aixa Pérez-Prado
Quill Tree (Harper Collins)
Written by Erica Lyons And Christina Matula, Illustrated by Tracy Subisak
Not Yet: The Story of an Unstoppable Skater
Orchard Books (Scholastic Press)
Written by Zahra Lari and Hadley Davis, Illustrated by Sara Alfageeh
Tu Books (Lee & Low Books)
Written by G. Neri, Illustrated by David Brame
Seeker of Truth: Kailash Satyarthi’s Fight to End Child Labor
Little Bee Books
Written by Srividhya Venkat, Illustrated by Danica da Silva Pereira
The 2025 Pedro and Daniel Intersectionality Book Awards
Commended Titles: Middle Grade and Young Adult Novels
Any Way You Look Scholastic Press
Written by Maleeha Siddiqui
At the End of the River Styx Page Street YA
Written by Michelle Kulwicki
Benny Ramírez and the Nearly Departed Knopf Books for Young Readers (Penguin Random House)
Written by José Pablo Iriarte
Gooseberry Amulet Books (Abrams)
Written by Robin Gow
Haunting Melody Tiny Ghost Press
Written by Chloe Spencer
Kicked Out Tu Books (Lee & Low Books)
Written by A. M. Dassu
London On My Mind Scholastic Press
Written by Clara Alves, Translated by Nina Perrotta
Paige Not Found Scholastic Press
Written by Jen Wilde
Saint Seducing Gold Amulet Books (Abrams)
Written by Brittany N. Williams
The Vanishing Station Amulet Books (Abrams)
Written by Ana Ellickson
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