Roger Sutton, editor in chief of The Horn Book, Inc., announced the 2021 Boston Globe–Horn Book Award winners on June 23rd, 2021. You can watch the announcement video here and read the press release here.

Read reviews of all of the 2021 Fiction and Poetry winners here; see below for more web extras about them.

WINNER

The 2021 Boston Globe–Horn Book Fiction and Poetry Award winner is A Sitting in St. James by Rita Williams-Garcia (Quill Tree Books/HarperCollins).

• Lift Every Voice: From One Book to Many by Rita Williams-Garcia
• Look Here. Not There. — The Zena Sutherland Lecture by Rita Williams-Garcia
• “Waiting in the Deep”: A Character Development Workshop with Rita Williams-Garcia by Andrea J. Loney
• Rita Williams-Garcia Talks with Roger about Clayton Byrd Goes Underground
• 2016 CSK Author Award Acceptance by Rita Williams-Garcia
• Profile of 2016 CSK Author Award winner Rita Williams-Garcia by Deborah Taylor
• A Fine Bookshelf by Ibi Zoboi
• Rita Williams-Garcia's 2014 CSK Author Award Acceptance
• A Profile of Rita Williams-Garcia: Being Eleven by Kathleen T. Horning
• One Crazy Road to Here: CSK Author Award Acceptance by Rita Williams-Garcia
• Rita Williams-Garcia by Rosemary Brosnan
• Five questions for Rita Williams-Garcia by Roger Sutton

HONOR BOOKS

Fighting Words by Kimberly Brubaker Bradley (Dial Books for Young Readers/Penguin Random House) received a BGHB Fiction and Poetry Honor.

• The Book That Changed My Life: Why Do I Like This Story So Much? by Kimberly Brubaker Bradley

Punching the Air written by Ibi Zoboi with Yusef Salaam; illustrated by Omar T. Pasha (Balzer + Bray/HarperCollins) received a BGHB Fiction and Poetry Honor.

• A Fine Bookshelf by Ibi Zoboi

Click here for a list of past BGHB winners and honorees. For book reviews, acceptance speeches, and more, click on the tags Boston Globe-Horn Book Awards or BGHB21.