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Boston Globe–Horn Book Awards 2025

The 2025 Boston Globe–Horn Book Awards went to Everything We Never Had by Randy Ribay (Fiction and Poetry), Death in the Jungle: Murder, Betrayal, and the Lost Dream of Jonestown by Candace Fleming (Nonfiction) and I Know How to Draw an Owl by Hilary Horder Hippely and Matt James (Picture Book). 6 books were Honor Books across 3 categories.

Winners

Fiction and Poetry

  1. Everything We Never Had by Randy Ribaysource (opens in a new tab)

Nonfiction

  1. Death in the Jungle: Murder, Betrayal, and the Lost Dream of Jonestown by Candace Flemingsource (opens in a new tab)

Picture Book

  1. I Know How to Draw an Owl by Hilary Horder Hippely and Matt Jamessource (opens in a new tab)

Honor Books

Fiction and Poetry

  1. Compound Fracture by Andrew Joseph Whitesource (opens in a new tab)
  2. Oasis by Guojingsource (opens in a new tab)

Nonfiction

  1. Up, Up, Ever Up!: Junko Tabei: A Life in the Mountains by Anita Yasuda and Yuko Shimizusource (opens in a new tab)
  2. Uprooted: A Memoir About What Happens When Your Family Moves Back by Ruth Chansource (opens in a new tab)

Picture Book

  1. My Daddy Is a Cowboy by Stephanie Seales and C. G. Esperanzasource (opens in a new tab)
  2. Nose to Nose by Thyra Hedersource (opens in a new tab)

About the Boston Globe–Horn Book Awards

Winners, Honor Books and Special Citations, 2006-2025. 2006-2023 come from the Horn Book's Past Boston Globe–Horn Book Award Winners page; 2024 and 2025 from the Horn Book's announcement for each year. hbook.com blocks automated fetches, so the pages were read through Wayback Machine snapshots; citations point to the Horn Book URLs. Year is the award year (announced each June for books published June to May). The fiction category was named Fiction and Poetry in some years and Fiction in others; it is one category here. In 2024 the nonfiction category was Nonfiction and Poetry with a Nonfiction winner and a Poetry winner; both are Winners in Nonfiction. Special Citations (2008, 2024) have their own category. Author field names the writers, then illustrators or photographers when different, as credited; colorists are left out.

Organization: The Horn Book and The Boston Globe. Years are award years, which can differ from publication years. Official site (opens in a new tab)

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