Iowa Teen Award - Young Adult

Awards List

2016

Okay for Now
(Nominee)
Gary D. Schmidt

The Eleventh Plague
(Nominee)
Jeff Hirsch

Crow
(Nominee)
Barbara Wright

Code of Silence
(Nominee)
Tim Shoemaker

The False Prince
(Nominee)
Jennifer A. Nielsen

See You at Harry's
(Nominee)
Jo Knowles

Monument 14
(Nominee)
Emmy Laybourne

Unstoppable
(Nominee)
Tim Green

Skinny
(Nominee)
Donna Cooner

Navigating Early
(Nominee)
Clare Vanderpool

Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library
(Nominee)
Chris Grabenstein

Counting by 7s
(Nominee)
Holly Goldberg Sloan

Ghost Hawk
(Nominee)
Susan Cooper

QB 1
(Nominee)
Mike Lupica

2015

The Lost Hero
(Winner)
Rick Riordan

The Lost Hero
(Nominee)
Rick Riordan

Girl, Stolen
(Nominee)
April Henry

Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children
(Nominee)
Ransom Riggs

The Outcasts
(Nominee)
John Flanagan

Variant
(Nominee)
Robison Wells

I Pledge Allegiance
(Nominee)
Chris Lynch

The Lions of Little Rock
(Nominee)
Kristin Levine

Under the Never Sky
(Nominee)
Veronica Rossi

Curveball: The Year I Lost My Grip
(Nominee)
Jordan Sonnenblick

One for the Murphys
(Nominee)
Lynda Mullaly Hunt

The Raft
(Nominee)
S.A. Bodeen

Ungifted
(Nominee)
Gordon Korman

True Legend
(Nominee)
Mike Lupica

Prisoner B-3087
(Nominee)
Alan M. Gratz

2014

Legend
(Winner)
Marie Lu

The Roar
(Nominee)
Emma Clayton

A Spy in the House
(Nominee)
Y.S. Lee

The Red Pyramid
(Nominee)
Rick Riordan

Bruiser
(Nominee)
Neal Shusterman

The Clockwork Angel
(Nominee)
Cassandra Clare

Between Shades of Gray // Ashes in the Snow
(Nominee)
Ruta Sepetys

What Happened to Goodbye
(Nominee)
Sarah Dessen

Wild Life
(Nominee)
Cynthia DeFelice

The Prisoner of Cell 25
(Nominee)
Richard Paul Evans

This Dark Endeavor
(Nominee)
Kenneth Oppel

The Name of the Star
(Nominee)
Maureen Johnson

Cinder
(Nominee)
Marissa Meyer

Wonder
(Nominee)
R.J. Palacio

2013

I Am Number Four
(Winner)
Pittacus Lore

Incarceron
(Nominee)
Catherine Fisher

The Big Field
(Nominee)
Mike Lupica

The Truth About Truman School
(Nominee)
Dori Hillestad Butler

Chains
(Nominee)
Laurie Halse Anderson

Ruined
(Nominee)
Paula Morris

Leviathan
(Nominee)
Scott Westerfeld

Lockdown
(Nominee)
Walter Dean Myers

Out of My Mind
(Nominee)
Sharon M. Draper

Virals
(Nominee)
Kathy Reichs; Brendan Reichs

Lost in the River of Grass
(Nominee)
Ginny Rorby

2012

The Last Thing I Remember
(Winner)
Andrew Klavan

Beastly
(Nominee)
Alex Flinn

Unwind
(Nominee)
Neal Shusterman

Sunrise Over Fallujah
(Nominee)
Walter Dean Myers

Boost
(Nominee)
Kathy MacKel

All the Broken Pieces
(Nominee)
Ann E. Burg

Anything But Typical
(Nominee)
Nora Raleigh Baskin

Along for the Ride
(Nominee)
Sarah Dessen

Operation Yes
(Nominee)
Sara Lewis Holmes

Pop
(Nominee)
Gordon Korman

Purple Heart
(Nominee)
Patricia McCormick

Woods Runner
(Nominee)
Gary Paulsen

After Ever After
(Nominee)
Jordan Sonnenblick

2011

Shark Girl
(Winner)
Kelly Bingham

Notes from the Midnight Driver
(Nominee)
Jordan Sonnenblick

Football Genius
(Nominee)
Tim Green

The Boy Who Dared
(Nominee)
Susan Campbell Bartoletti

Shooting the Moon
(Nominee)
Frances O'Roark Dowell

Waiting for Normal
(Nominee)
Leslie Connor

The Compound
(Nominee)
S.A. Bodeen

Scat
(Nominee)
Carl Hiaasen

2010

Gym Candy
(Winner)
Carl Deuker

Invisible
(Nominee)
Pete Hautman

The Boy in the Striped Pajamas
(Nominee)
John Boyne

The Looking Glass Wars
(Nominee)
Frank Beddor

Peak
(Nominee)
Roland Smith

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

Cracker!
(Nominee)
Cynthia Kadohata

2009

The Lightning Thief
(Winner)
Rick Riordan

Blood Red Horse
(Nominee)
K.M. Grant

Can't Get There from Here
(Nominee)
Todd Strasser

The Truth about Forever
(Nominee)
Sarah Dessen

Crackback
(Nominee)
John Coy

Crossing the Wire
(Nominee)
Will Hobbs

Heat
(Nominee)
Mike Lupica

Dairy Queen
(Nominee)
Catherine Gilbert Murdock

Life As We Knew It
(Nominee)
Susan Beth Pfeffer

2008

Eragon
(Winner)
Christopher Paolini

Drums, Girls and Dangerous Pie
(Nominee)
Jordan Sonnenblick

Airborn
(Nominee)
Kenneth Oppel

So B. It
(Nominee)
Sarah Weeks

Travel Team
(Nominee)
Mike Lupica

Code Talker
(Nominee)
Joseph Bruchac

Stumptown Kid
(Nominee)
Author Unknown

Flush
(Nominee)
Carl Hiaasen

The Perfect Shot
(Nominee)
Elaine Marie Alphin

2007

One of Those Hideous Books Where the Mother Dies
(Winner)
Sonya Sones

Escape from Memory
(Nominee)
Margaret Peterson Haddix

Inkheart
(Nominee)
Cornelia Funke

Iqbal
(Nominee)
Francesco D'adamo

Al Capone Does My Shirts
(Nominee)
Gennifer Choldenko

The Sea of Trolls
(Nominee)
Nancy Farmer

The Outcasts of 19 Schuyler Place
(Nominee)
E.L. Konigsburg

The First Part Last
(Nominee)
Angela Johnson

2006

What My Mother Doesn't Know
(Winner)
Sonya Sones

House of the Scorpion
(Nominee)
Nancy Farmer

Waiting for Sarah
(Nominee)
Bruce McBay

The City of Ember
(Nominee)
Jeanne Duprau

Storm Catchers
(Nominee)
Tim Bowler

Hanging on to Max
(Nominee)
Margaret Bechard

2005

Stormbreaker
(Winner)
Anthony Horowitz

Zach's Lie
(Nominee)
Roland Smith

Pictures of Hollis Woods
(Nominee)
Patricia Reilly Giff

2004

The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants
(Winner)
Ann Brashares

The Ghost in the Tokaido Inn
(Nominee)
Dorothy Hoobler; Thomas Hoobler

Fever 1793
(Nominee)
Laurie Halse Anderson

Hope Was Here
(Nominee)
Joan Bauer

Among the Impostors
(Nominee)
Margaret Peterson Haddix
  • / Science Fiction
  • Buy Buy

Touching Spirit Bear
(Nominee)
Ben Mikaelsen

Flipped
(Nominee)
Wendelin Van Draanen

2003

Stargirl
(Winner)
Jerry Spinelli

Skellig
(Nominee)
David Almond
  • / General Fiction
  • Buy Buy

Jason's Gold
(Nominee)
Will Hobbs

When Zachary Beaver Came to Town
(Nominee)
Kimberly Willis Holt

2002

The Transall Saga
(Winner)
Gary Paulsen

Kissing Doorknobs
(Nominee)
Terry Spencer Hesser

The Maze
(Nominee)
Will Hobbs

Monster
(Nominee)
Walter Dean Myers

Speak
(Nominee)
Laurie Halse Anderson

2001

Annie's Baby
(Winner)
Beatrice Sparks

Tangerine
(Nominee)
Edward Bloor
  • / General Fiction
  • Buy Buy

Among the Hidden
(Nominee)
Margaret Peterson Haddix

Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key
(Nominee)
Jack Gantos

The Iron Ring
(Nominee)
Lloyd Alexander

2000

Ella Enchanted
(Winner)
Gail Carson Levine

1999

Crash
(Winner)
Jerry Spinelli

1998

Brian's Winter
(Winner)
Gary Paulsen

1997

Harris and Me
(Winner)
Gary Paulsen
  • / General Fiction
  • Buy Buy

1996

Whatever Happened to Janie?
(Winner)
Caroline B. Cooney

1995

Jurassic Park
(Winner)
Michael Crichton

1993

The Face on the Milk Carton
(Winner)
Caroline B. Cooney

1992

Don't Look Behind You
(Winner)
Lois Duncan

1991

Silver
(Winner)
Norma Fox Mazer

1990

Hatchet
(Winner)
Gary Paulsen

1989

The Other Side of Dark
(Winner)
Joan Lowery Nixon

1988

Abby, My Love
(Winner)
Hadley Irwin

1987

You Shouldn't Have to Say Goodbye
(Winner)
Patricia Hermes
  • / General Fiction
  • Buy Buy

1986

When We First Met
(Winner)
Norma Fox Mazer

1985

Tiger Eyes
(Winner)
Judy Blume

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