The 2021 Boston Globe–Horn Book Honor Book Award for Fiction and Poetry is presented to authors Ibi Zoboi and Yusef Salaam and illustrator Omar T. Pasha for Punching the Air published by Balzer + Bray, an imprint of HarperCollins.
The 2021 Boston Globe–Horn Book Honor Book Award for Fiction and Poetry is presented to Kimberly Brubaker Bradley for Fighting Words published by Dial Books for Young Readers, an imprint of Penguin Random House.