Presented by the Association of Jewish Libraries and awarded annually, the Sydney Taylor Book Award is given to outstanding books for children and teens that authentically portray the Jewish experience. See a complete list of all past Sydney Taylor Award winners.
| Subject | Author | Title | Call number | Year | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Middle Grade | Nadel, Estelle | The Girl Who Sang: A Holocaust Memoir of Hope and Survival | 940.5318 N134gi | 2024 | |
| Middle Grade | Lowe, Mari | The Dubious Pranks of Shaindy Goodman | Fic L913du | 2023 | |
| Meyer, Susan | A Sky Full of Song | Fic M6136sky | |||
| Nimrodi, Noa | Not So Shy | Fic N7137no | |||
| Picture Book | Cohen, Tziporah | Afikomen | E C6782af | ||
| Ho, Richard | Two New Years | E H6785tw | |||
| Young Adult | Adler, Dahlia | Going Bicoastal | Fic A237go | ||
| Polydoros, Aden | Wrath Becomes Her | Fic P782wr | |||
| Middle Grade | Hiranandani, Veera | How to Find What You're Not Looking For | Fic H668ho | 2022 | |
| Picture Book | Stiefel, Chana | The Tower of Life: How Yaffa Eliach Rebuilt her Town in Stories and Photographs | 940.5318 S855to | ||
| Kusel, Susan | The Passover Guest | E K973pa | |||
| Young Adult | Lamb, Sacha | When the Angels Left the Old Country | Fic L218wh | ||
| Polydoros, Aden | The City Beautiful | Fic P782ci | |||
| Picture Book | Newman, Leslea | Welcoming Elijah: A Passover Tail with a Tail | E N5536we | 2021 | |
| Young Adult | Feder, Tyler | Dancing at the Pity Party | 92 F293fe | ||
| Middle Grade | Palacio, R.J. | White Bird: A Wonder Story | 741.5973 P153wh | 2020 | |
| Wolkenstein, M. Evan | Turtle Boy | Fic W8625tu | |||
| Picture Book | Macy, Sue | The Book Rescuer | 92 L295ma | ||
| Young Adult | DeWoskin, Rachel | Someday We Will Fly | Fic D524so | ||
| Middle Grade | Auxier, Jonathan | Sweep: The Story of a Girl and Her Monster | Fic A943sw | 2019 | |
| Picture Book | Jenkins, Emily | All of a kind family Hanukkah | E J517aL | ||
| Middle Grade | Gratz, Alan | Refugee | Fic G7734re | 2018 | |
| Picture Book | Michelson, Richard | The Language of Angels | 92 B479mi | ||
| Young Adult | Iturbe, Antonio | The Librarian of Auschwitz | Fic I913Li | ||
| Stamper, Vesper | What the Night Sings | Fic S7835wh | |||
| Middle Grade | Gidwitz, Adam | The Inquisitor’s Tale | Fic G453inq | 2017 | |
| Picture Book | Levy, Debbie | I Dissent: Ruth Bader Ginsburg Made Her Mark | 92 G493Le | ||
| Young Adult | Savit, Gavriel | Anna and the Swallow Man | Fic S267an | ||
| Middle Grade | Appelfeld, Aharon | Adam & Thomas | Fic A641ad | 2016 | |
| Picture Book | Newman, Leslea | Ketzel, the Cat Who Composed | E N5536ke | ||
| Young Adult | Schlitz, Laura Amy | The Hired Girl | Fic S344hi | ||
| Middle Grade | Dauvillier, Loic | Hidden : a child's story of the Holocaust | 741.5944 D244hi | 2015 | |
| Picture Book | Aylesworth, Jim | My Grandfather’s Coat | 398.20947 A978my | ||
| Young Adult | Napoli, Donna Jo | Storm | Fic N216sto | ||
| Middle Grade | Polacco, Patricia | The Blessing Cup | E P762bL | 2014 | |
| Picture Book | Snyder, Laurel | The Longest Night | E S6753Lo | ||
| Middle Grade | Borden, Louise | His Name Was Raoul Wallenberg | 92 W197bo | 2013 | |
| Picture Book | Glaser, Linda | Hannah’s Way | E G548ha | ||
| Young Adult | Bascomb, Neal | The Nazi Hunters: How a Team of Spies and Survivors Captured the World’s Most Notorious Nazi | 92 E34ba | ||
| Heiligman, Deborah | Intentions | ||||
| Sharenow, Robert | The Berlin Boxing Club | Fic S5311be | |||
| Middle Grade | Rubin, Susan Goldman | Music Was It: Young Leonard Bernstein | 92 B531ru | 2012 | |
| Picture Book | Rosen, Michael | Chanukah Lights | E R813ch | ||
| Middle Grade | Deutsch, Barry | Hereville: How Mirka Got Her Sword | 741.5973 D486he | 2011 | |
| Picture Book | Schwartz, Howard | Gathering Sparks | E S39935ga | ||
| Young Adult | Reinhardt, Dana | The Things a Brother Knows | Fic R369th | ||
| Middle Grade | Friedman, Robin | The Importance of Wings | Fic F91134im | 2010 | |
| Picture Book | Haprin, April | New Year at the Pier | |||
| Young Adult | Engle, Margarita | Tropical Secrets: Holocaust Refugees in Cuba | Fic E58tr | ||
| Middle Grade | Hesse, Karen | Brooklyn Bridge | Fic H5873br | 2009 | |
| Picture Book | Michelson, Richard | As Good As Anybody: Martin Luther King, Jr. and Abraham Joshua Heschel’s Amazing March Toward Freedom | 323.092 M623as | ||
| Young Adult | Zenatti, Valerie | A Bottle in the Gaza Sea | Fic Z542bo | ||
| Middle Grade | Fleischman, Sid | The Entertainer and the Dybbuk | Fic F5965en | 2008 | |
| Picture Book | Gershman, Sarah | The Bedtime Sh’ma | |||
| Young Adult | Levitin, Sonia | Strange Relations | Fic L666st | ||
| Middle Grade | Ferber, Brenda | Julia’s Kitchen | Fic F3458ju | 2007 | |
| Picture Book | Krensky, Stephen | Hanukkah at Valley Forge | Fic K92ha | ||
| Young Adult | Zusak, Markus | The Book Thief | Fic Z962bo | ||
| Middle Grade | Littman, Sarah Darer | Confessions of a Closet Catholic | Fic L7812co | 2006 | |
| Picture Book | Silverman, Erica | Sholom’s Treasure | 92 S5594si |