Handy Topics in the Curriculum Department

will help you locate the different Walter Award books that are in our collections.  Just click on a name to go to the record!

Please note: if a title is not linked, it means that we currently do not have it in our collection.  Please check the Kearney Public Library or consider ordering it from Interlibrary Loan

The Walter Dean Myers Award for Outstanding Children’s Literature, also known as "The Walter", named in honor of author Walter Dean Myers, recognizes "diverse authors (or co-authors) whose works feature diverse main characters and address diversity in a meaningful way." 

This award was created by We Need Diverse Books, who "defines 'diverse' to be one or more of the following: a person of color, Native American, LGBTQIA, a person with a disability, and/or a member of a marginalized religious or cultural minority in the United States."