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 | 2024 | ||
| Middle Grade | Lowe, Mari | The Dubious Pranks of Shaindy Goodman | 2023 | ||
| Meyer, Susan | A Sky Full of Song | ||||
| Nimrodi, Noa | Not So Shy | ||||
| Picture Book | Cohen, Tziporah | Afikomen | |||
| Ho, Richard | Two New Years | ||||
| Young Adult | Adler, Dahlia | Going Bicoastal | |||
| Polydoros, Aden | Wrath Becomes Her | ||||
| Middle Grade | Hiranandani, Veera | How to Find What You're Not Looking For | 2022 | ||
| Picture Book | Stiefel, Chana | The Tower of Life: How Yaffa Eliach Rebuilt her Town in Stories and Photographs | |||
| Kusel, Susan | The Passover Guest | ||||
| Young Adult | Lamb, Sacha | When the Angels Left the Old Country | |||
| Polydoros, Aden | The City Beautiful | ||||
| Picture Book | Newman, Leslea | Welcoming Elijah: A Passover Tail with a Tail | 2021 | ||
| Young Adult | Feder, Tyler | Dancing at the Pity Party | |||
| Middle Grade | Palacio, R.J. | White Bird: A Wonder Story | 2020 | ||
| Wolkenstein, M. Evan | Turtle Boy | ||||
| Picture Book | Macy, Sue | The Book Rescuer | |||
| Young Adult | DeWoskin, Rachel | Someday We Will Fly | |||
| Middle Grade | Auxier, Jonathan | Sweep: The Story of a Girl and Her Monster | 2019 | ||
| Picture Book | Jenkins, Emily | All of a kind family Hanukkah | |||
| Middle Grade | Gratz, Alan | Refugee | 2018 | ||
| Picture Book | Michelson, Richard | The Language of Angels | |||
| Young Adult | Iturbe, Antonio | The Librarian of Auschwitz | |||
| Stamper, Vesper | What the Night Sings | ||||
| Middle Grade | Gidwitz, Adam | The Inquisitor’s Tale | 2017 | ||
| Picture Book | Levy, Debbie | I Dissent: Ruth Bader Ginsburg Made Her Mark | |||
| Young Adult | Savit, Gavriel | Anna and the Swallow Man | |||
| Middle Grade | Appelfeld, Aharon | Adam & Thomas | 2016 | ||
| Picture Book | Newman, Leslea | Ketzel, the Cat Who Composed | |||
| Young Adult | Schlitz, Laura Amy | The Hired Girl | |||
| Middle Grade | Dauvillier, Loic | Hidden : a child's story of the Holocaust | 2015 | ||
| Picture Book | Aylesworth, Jim | My Grandfather’s Coat | |||
| Young Adult | Napoli, Donna Jo | Storm | |||
| Middle Grade | Polacco, Patricia | The Blessing Cup | 2014 | ||
| Picture Book | Snyder, Laurel | The Longest Night | |||
| Middle Grade | Borden, Louise | His Name Was Raoul Wallenberg | 2013 | ||
| Picture Book | Glaser, Linda | Hannah’s Way | |||
| Young Adult | Bascomb, Neal | The Nazi Hunters: How a Team of Spies and Survivors Captured the World’s Most Notorious Nazi | |||
| Heiligman, Deborah | Intentions | ||||
| Sharenow, Robert | The Berlin Boxing Club | ||||
| Middle Grade | Rubin, Susan Goldman | Music Was It: Young Leonard Bernstein | 2012 | ||
| Picture Book | Rosen, Michael | Chanukah Lights | |||
| Middle Grade | Deutsch, Barry | Hereville: How Mirka Got Her Sword | 2011 | ||
| Picture Book | Schwartz, Howard | Gathering Sparks | |||
| Young Adult | Reinhardt, Dana | The Things a Brother Knows | |||
| Middle Grade | Friedman, Robin | The Importance of Wings | 2010 | ||
| Picture Book | Haprin, April | New Year at the Pier | |||
| Young Adult | Engle, Margarita | Tropical Secrets: Holocaust Refugees in Cuba | |||
| Middle Grade | Hesse, Karen | Brooklyn Bridge | 2009 | ||
| Picture Book | Michelson, Richard | As Good As Anybody: Martin Luther King, Jr. and Abraham Joshua Heschel’s Amazing March Toward Freedom | |||
| Young Adult | Zenatti, Valerie | A Bottle in the Gaza Sea | |||
| Middle Grade | Fleischman, Sid | The Entertainer and the Dybbuk | 2008 | ||
| Picture Book | Gershman, Sarah | The Bedtime Sh’ma | |||
| Young Adult | Levitin, Sonia | Strange Relations | |||
| Middle Grade | Ferber, Brenda | Julia’s Kitchen | 2007 | ||
| Picture Book | Krensky, Stephen | Hanukkah at Valley Forge | |||
| Young Adult | Zusak, Markus | The Book Thief | |||
| Middle Grade | Littman, Sarah Darer | Confessions of a Closet Catholic | 2006 | ||
| Picture Book | Silverman, Erica | Sholom’s Treasure |