2025 Mock Sydney Taylor Book Awards Announced


We are pleased to announce our fifth year of Mock Sydney Taylor Book Awards! The top Jewish juvenile books published in 2024 were chosen from our shortlist by popular vote. Thank you to the many people who helped us select these titles! Links to more information below. 

Titles are linked to Bookshop.org for your convenience. Authors and illustrators are linked to their websites. The Sydney Taylor Shmooze review for each book is provided.

PICTURE BOOKS


MOCK PICTURE BOOK WINNER
Ping-Pong Shabbat 
by Ann Koffsky, ill. Abigail Rajunov
Little Bee Books, 2024
Review: Sydney Taylor Shmooze
 
MOCK PICTURE BOOK HONOR
A Feather, A Pebble, A Shell 
written & illustrated by Miri Leshem-Pelly
Kar-Ben Publishing, 2024
Review:  Sydney Taylor Shmooze

MOCK PICTURE BOOK NOTABLE
Workitu's Passover
by Zehava Workitu Goshen & Maayan Ben Hagai, ill. Eden Spivak
Green Bean Books, 2024
Review: Sydney Taylor Shmooze

MIDDLE GRADE

 
MOCK MIDDLE GRADE WINNER
Finn and Ezra's Bar Mitzvah Time Loop
by Joshua S. Levy
Katherine Tegan Books/HarperCollins, 2024
Review: Sydney Taylor Shmooze

MOCK MIDDLE GRADE HONOR
Across So Many Seas
by Ruth Behar
Nancy Paulsen Books/Penguin Random House, 2024
Review: Sydney Taylor Shmooze

MOCK MIDDLE GRADE NOTABLE
What Jewish Looks Like
by Liz Kleinrock & Caroline Kusin Pritchard, ill. Iris Gottlieb
HarperCollins, 2024
Review: Sydney Taylor Shmooze

YOUNG ADULT

 
MOCK YOUNG ADULT WINNER
Trajectory
by Cambria Gordon
Scholastic Press, 2024
Review: Sydney Taylor Shmooze
 
MOCK YOUNG ADULT HONOR
Night Owls
by A.R. Vishny
HarperCollins, 2024
Review: Sydney Taylor Shmooze
 
MOCK YOUNG ADULT NOTABLE
The Forbidden Book
by Sacha Lamb
Levine Querido, 2024
Review: Sydney Taylor Shmooze
 

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