Award overlap
Books That Won Both the National Jewish Book Awards and the Sydney Taylor Book Award
12 books won both the National Jewish Book Awards and the Sydney Taylor Book Award between 2006 and 2025, most recently Night Owls (2024/2025). 27 more were recognized by both without winning both.
Years are award years. National Jewish Book Awards · Sydney Taylor Book Award
Won both
| Book | Author | National Jewish Book Awards | Sydney Taylor Book Award |
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| Night Owls | A. R. Vishny |
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| The Blood Years | Elana K. Arnold |
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| The Dubious Pranks of Shaindy Goodman | Mari Lowe |
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| Two New Years | Richard Ho |
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| Welcoming Elijah: A Passover Tale with a Tail | Lesléa Newman |
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| Someday We Will Fly | Rachel DeWoskin |
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| Refugee | Alan Gratz |
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| The Language of Angels: A Story about the Reinvention of Hebrew | Richard Michelson |
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| Anna and the Swallow Man | Gavriel Savit |
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| I Dissent: Ruth Bader Ginsburg Makes Her Mark | Debbie Levy |
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| The Hired Girl | Laura Amy Schlitz |
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| The Book Thief | Markus Zusak |
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Recognized by both
| Book | Author | National Jewish Book Awards | Sydney Taylor Book Award |
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| Finn and Ezra’s Bar Mitzvah Time Loop: A Novel | Joshua S. Levy |
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| Courage to Dream: Tales of Hope in the Holocaust | Neal Shusterman |
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| The Very Best Sukkah: A Story from Uganda | Shoshana Nambi |
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| When the Angels Left the Old Country | Sacha Lamb |
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| Dear Mr. Dickens | Nancy Churnin |
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| How to Find What You’re Not Looking For | Veera Hiranandani |
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| Linked | Gordon Korman |
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| The City Beautiful | Aden Polydoros |
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| Anya and The Nightingale | Sofiya Pasternack |
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| No Vacancy | Tziporah Cohen |
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| The Blackbird Girls | Anne Blankman |
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| Gittel’s Journey: An Ellis Island Story | Lesléa Newman |
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| All Three Stooges | Erica Perl |
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| All-of-a-Kind Family Hanukkah | Emily Jenkins |
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| Sweep: The Story of a Girl and Her Monster | Jonathan Auxier |
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| What the Night Sings | Vesper Stamper |
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| Viva Rose! | Susan Krawitz |
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| Dreidels on the Brain | Joel Ben Izzy |
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| The Inquisitor’s Tale: Or, The Three Magical Children and Their Holy Dog | Adam Gidwitz |
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| Adam and Thomas | Aharon Appelfeld |
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| Never Say a Mean Word Again: A Tale from Medieval Spain | Jacqueline Jules |
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| Storm | Donna Jo Napoli |
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| Whispering Town | Jennifer Elvgren |
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| The War Within These Walls | Aline Sax |
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| Music Was It: Young Leonard Bernstein | Susan Goldman Rubin |
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| Modeh Ani: A Good Morning Book | Sarah Gershman |
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| The White Ram: A Story of Abraham and Isaac | Mordicai Gerstein |
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