2026-2027 Awards
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2025-2026
Nominees
The Enigma Girls by Candace Fleming
Twelfth Knight by Alexene Farol Follmuth
The Hope of Elephants by Amanda Rawson Hill
That's Not My Name by Megan Lally
The Kill Factor by Ben Oliver
Garden of the Cursed by Katy Rose Pool
To Kill the Shadow by Katherine Quinn
The Last Dragon an Mars by Scott Reintgen
Louder Than Hunger by John Schu
Gallant by V. E. Schwab
2024-2025
![]() First Fallout |
![]() Second (tie) All My Rage by Sabaa Tahir |
![]() Second (tie) The Red Palace by June Hur |
![]() Second (tie) Yonder by Ali Standish |
Nominees
Promise Boys by Nick Brooks
Tilly in Technicolor by Mazey Eddings
Rez Ball by Byron Graves
Above the Trenches by Nathan Hale
A Door in the Dark by Scott Reintgen
The Darkness Outside Us by Eliot Schrefer
2023-2024
![]() First The Inheritance Games (#1) |
![]() Second You'd Be Home Now |
![]() Third This Light Between Us |
Hollow Fires by Samira Ahmed
The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge by M. T. Anderson and Eugene Yelchin
Aurora Rising by Amie Kaufman and Jay Kristoff
The Bone Spindle by Leslie Vedder Button Pusher by Tyler Page
The Snow Fell Three Graves Deep: Voices of the Donner Party by Allan Wolf
Punching the Air by Ibi Zoboi and Yusef Salaam
2022-2023
![]() First I Must Betray You by Ruta Sepetys |
![]() ![]() Second You'll Be the Death of Me by Karen M. McManus |
![]() ![]() Third The Similars by Rebecca Hanover |
Defy the Night by Brigid Kemmerer
You Should See Me in a Crown by Leah Johnson
The Blade of Secrets by Tricia Levenseller
Me (Moth) by Amber McBride
Gone to the Woods by Gary Paulsen
Paul, Big, and Small by David Glen Robb
Hold Back the Tide by Melinda Salisbury![]() Winner Dear Martin by Nic Stone |
![]() First runner-up A Good Girl's Guide to Murder by Holly Jackson |
![]() Second runner-up Dragon Hoops by Gene Luen Yang |
We Are Not Free by Traci Chee
A Tale of Magic … by Chris Colfer
Skyhunter by Marie Lu
Desert Dust by Paul W. Papa
Charming as a Verb by Ben Philippe
Pretend She's Here by Luanne Rice
Fable by Adrienne Young
2020-2021
![]() ![]() Winner They Both Die at the End by Adam Silvera |
![]() ![]() First runner-up Grenade by Alan Gratz |
![]() ![]() Second runner-up Game Changer by Tommy Greenwald |
Truly Devious by Maureen Johnson
The Library of Lost Things by Laura Taylor Namey
Ash Princess by Laura Sebastian
Wizard for Hire by Obert Skye
2019-2020
![]() ![]() Winner The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas |
![]() ![]() First runner-up One of Us Is Lying by Karen M. McManus |
![]() ![]() Second runner-up An Ember in the Ashes by Sabaa Tahir |
Nominees
A Land of Permanent Goodbyes by Atia Abawi
What If It's Us by Becky Albertalli
Onyx & Ivory by Mindee Arnett
Little White Lies by Jennifer Lynn Barnes
Defy the Stars by Claudia Gray
Hey, Kiddo by Jarrett J. Krosoczka
Renegades by Marissa Meyer