The American Library Association announced its winners for the 2015 Youth Media Awards this week during the ALA Midwinter Meeting & Exhibition in Chicago.

The most widely recognized award, the Newbery Awards, went to three diverse writers, including Kwame Alexander, the 2015 Newbery Medal winner for The Crossover (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt); Cece Bell, who received a Newbery Honor Book Award for El Deafo (Amulet Books); and Jacqueline Woodson, who also received a Newbery Honor Book Award for Brown Girl Dreaming (Penguin Group LLC). See the complete list of awardees.

Ellen Oh, President of #WeNeedDiverseBooks, a movement that took social media by storm earlier this year and also became a nonprofit, said to Flavorwire that this was “a first” for ALA. To an enthusiastic crowd of YA authors, WNDB posted on Twitter: “...the hope after #alamw15 & #alamwa is that all publishers see that diverse books are universal, wonderful, and desired by the public.”