Boston Globe-Horn Book Award - Fiction & Poetry

Awards List

2022

All My Rage
(Winner)
Sabaa Tahir

Rez Dogs
(Honor Book)
Joseph Bruchac

Borders
(Honor Book)
Thomas King

2021

A Sitting in St. James
(Winner)
Rita Williams-Garcia

Fighting Words
(Honor Book)
Kimberly Brubaker Bradley

Punching the Air
(Honor Book)
Ibi Zoboi

2020

King and the Dragonflies
(Winner)
Kacen Callender

When You Trap a Tiger
(Honor Book)
Tae Keller

Clap When You Land
(Honor Book)
Elizabeth Acevedo

2019

The Season of Styx Malone
(Winner)
Kekla Magoon

On the Come Up
(Honor Book)
Angie Thomas

Darius the Great Is Not Okay
(Honor Book)
Adib Khorram

2018

The Poet X
(Winner)
Elizabeth Acevedo

The First Rule of Punk
(Honor Book)
Celia C. Perez

The Parker Inheritance
(Honor Book)
Varian Johnson

2017

The Hate U Give
(Winner)
Angie Thomas

The Best Man
(Honor Book)
Richard Peck

One Last Word: Wisdom from the Harlem Renaissance
(Honor Book)
Nikki Grimes

2016

The Lie Tree
(Winner)
Frances Hardinge

Goodbye Stranger
(Honor Book)
Rebecca Stead

The Hired Girl
(Honor Book)
Laura Amy Schlitz

2015

Cartwheeling in Thunderstorms
(Winner)
Katherine Rundell

Egg & Spoon
(Honor Book)
Gregory Maguire

Challenger Deep
(Honor Book)
Neal Shusterman

2014

Grasshopper Jungle
(Winner)
Andrew Smith

Boxers
(Honor Book)
Gene Luen Yang

Rose Under Fire
(Honor Book)
Elizabeth Wein

2013

Eleanor & Park
(Winner)
Rainbow Rowell

Seraphina
(Honor Book)
Rachel Hartman

A Corner of White
(Honor Book)
Jaclyn Moriarty

2012

No Crystal Stair: A Documentary Novel of the Life and Work of Lewis Michaux, Harlem Bookseller
(Winner)
Vaunda Micheaux Nelson

Life: An Exploded Diagram
(Honor Book)
Mal Peet

Code Name Verity
(Honor Book)
Elizabeth Wein

2011

Pocketful of Posies
(Winner)
Salley Mavor

Blink and Caution
(Winner)
Tim Wynne-Jones

Pecan Pie Baby
(Honor Book)
Jacqueline Woodson

2010

When You Reach Me
(Winner)
Rebecca Stead

A Conspiracy of Kings
(Honor Book)
Megan Whalen Turner

The Dreamer
(Honor Book)
Pam Munoz Ryan

2009

Nation
(Winner)
Terry Pratchett

The Graveyard Book
(Honor Book)
Neil Gaiman

The Kingdom on the Waves
(Honor Book)
M.T. Anderson

2008

The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian
(Winner)
Sherman Alexie

Shooting the Moon
(Honor Book)
Frances O'Roark Dowell

Savvy
(Honor Book)
Ingrid Law

2007

The Pox Party
(Winner)
M.T. Anderson

Clementine
(Honor Book)
Sara Pennypacker

Rex Zero and the End of the World
(Honor Book)
Tim Wynne-Jones

2006

The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane
(Winner)
Kate DiCamillo

Yellow Star
(Honor Book)
Jennifer Roy

2005

Traction Man Is Here!
(Winner)
Mini Grey

That New Animal
(Honor Book)
Emily Jenkins

The Hello, Goodbye Window
(Honor Book)
Norton Juster

2004

The Amulet of Samarkand
(Honor Book)
Jonathan Stroud

2003

Jamie and Angus Stories
(Winner)
Anne Fine

Locomotion
(Honor Book)
Jacqueline Woodson

2002

Lord of the Deep
(Winner)
Graham Salisbury

Saffy's Angel
(Honor Book)
Hilary McKay
  • / General Fiction
  • Buy Buy

Amber Was Brave, Essie Was Smart
(Honor Book)
Vera B. Williams

2000

King of Shadows
(Honor Book)
Susan Cooper

145th Street
(Honor Book)
Walter Dean Myers

1999

Monster
(Honor Book)
Walter Dean Myers

1998

The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child
(Winner)
Francisco Jimenez

My Louisiana Sky
(Honor Book)
Kimberly Willis Holt
  • / General Fiction
  • Buy Buy

1997

Harlem
(Honor Book)
Walter Dean Myers

Lily's Crossing
(Honor Book)
Patricia Reilly Giff

1996

Poppy
(Winner)
Avi

1994

Scooter
(Winner)
Vera B. Williams

1993

Ajeemah and His Son
(Winner)
James Berry

1991

The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle
(Winner)
Avi

1990

Maniac Magee
(Winner)
Jerry Spinelli

1989

The Village by the Sea
(Winner)
Paula Fox
  • / General Fiction
  • Buy Buy

1988

The Friendship
(Winner)
Mildred D. Taylor

1987

Rabble Starkey
(Winner)
Lois Lowry

1985

The Moves Make The Man
(Winner)
Bruce Brooks

1984

A Little Fear
(Winner)
Patricia Wrightson

1982

Playing Beatie Bow
(Winner)
Ruth Park
  • / General Fiction
  • Buy Buy

1977

Child of the Owl
(Winner)
Laurence Yep

1976

Unleaving
(Winner)
Jill Paton Walsh
  • / General Fiction
  • Buy Buy

1975

Transport 7-41-R
(Winner)
Terry Degens

1973

The Dark Is Rising
(Winner)
Susan Cooper

1971

Room Made Of Windows, A
(Winner)
Eleanor Cameron

1969

A Wizard of Earthsea
(Winner)
Ursula K. Le Guin

1967

Little Fishes
(Winner)
Erik Christian Haugaard

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