This article contributes to research on equity in award-winning and honor books by offering a paratextual analysis of 14 immigration-themed young adult books that were included on the USBBY Outstanding International Books list between 2006 and 2019. Findings reveal that paratexts—all parts of a book excluding the narrative—frame authors who are not members of the cultures they describe as having authority to tell immigration stories through authors’ sociocultural proximity to real events and people who experienced migration. However, other paratextual features, such as titles, covers, and author interviews, reveal ideological problems in some authors’ didactic purposes for telling immigration stories and disproportionately depict migration in terms of escape and rescue. For educators, this article invites a reconsideration of text selection processes relative to an author’s background in connection to immigration and offers ideas for how teachers and their students might think critically about authorship.

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塑造年轻成人文学中的移民叙事：USBBY杰出国际书籍的作者和超文本特征，2006–2019年

本文通过对2006年至2019年间USBBY杰出国际图书清单中包括的14项以移民为主题的年轻成人书籍进行了文字分析，从而为获奖和荣誉书籍的公平性研究做出了贡献。一本不包括叙述的书-框架的作者不是他们所描述的文化的成员，因为他们有权通过作家与真实事件和经历过移民的人们的社会文化接近性来讲述移民故事。但是，其他超文本特征（例如标题，封面和作者访谈）则揭示了某些作者讲故事的目的，以讲述移民故事为对象的意识形态问题，并从逃生和营救角度过多地描述了移民。对于教育工作者，