National Book Award - Young People's Literature (Awarded by National Book Foundation)

Awards List

2023

A First Time for Everything
(Winner)
Dan Santat

The Lost Year
(Finalist)
Katherine Marsh

Big
(Finalist)
Vashti Harrison

Gather
(Finalist)
Kenneth M. Cadow

Huda F Cares
(Finalist)
Huda Fahmy

Simon Sort of Says
(Longlist)
Erin Bow

Forget Me Not
(Longlist)
Alyson Derrick

Parachute Kids
(Longlist)
Betty C. Tang

2022

All My Rage
(Winner)
Sabaa Tahir

Maizy Chen's Last Chance
(Finalist)
Lisa Yee

The Ogress and the Orphans
(Finalist)
Kelly Barnhill

The Lesbiana's Guide to Catholic School
(Finalist)
Sonora Reyes

A Thousand Steps into Night
(Longlist)
Traci Chee

Swim Team
(Longlist)
Johnnie Christmas

The Life and Crimes of Hoodie Rosen
(Longlist)
Isaac Blum

Lotus Bloom and the Afro Revolution
(Longlist)
Sherri Winston

Self-Made Boys: A Great Gatsby Remix
(Longlist)
Anna-Marie McLemore

2021

Last Night at the Telegraph Club
(Winner)
Malinda Lo

Too Bright to See
(Finalist)
Kyle Lukoff

The Legend of Auntie Po
(Finalist)
Shing Yin Khor

Home Is Not a Country
(Longlist)
Safia Elhillo

The Mirror Season
(Longlist)
Anna-Marie McLemore

A Snake Falls to Earth
(Longlist)
Darcie Little Badger

2020

King and the Dragonflies
(Winner)
Kacen Callender

When Stars Are Scattered
(Finalist)
Victoria Jamieson; Omar Mohamed

Every Body Looking
(Finalist)
Candice Iloh

We Are Not Free
(Finalist)
Traci Chee

The Way Back
(Finalist)
Gavriel Savit

Cemetery Boys
(Longlist)
Aiden Thomas

Trowbridge Road
(Longlist)
Marcella Pixley

2019

Patron Saints of Nothing
(Finalist)
Randy Ribay

Pet
(Finalist)
Akwaeke Emezi

Look Both Ways
(Finalist)
Jason Reynolds

Thirteen Doorways, Wolves Behind Them All
(Finalist)
Laura Ruby

Kiss Number 8
(Longlist)
Colleen A.F. Venable

Out of Salem
(Longlist)
Hal Schrieve

A Place to Belong
(Longlist)
Cynthia Kadohata

2018

The Poet X
(Winner)
Elizabeth Acevedo

The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle
(Finalist)
Leslie Connor

The Journey of Little Charlie
(Finalist)
Christopher Paul Curtis

The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge
(Finalist)
M.T. Anderson

What the Night Sings
(Longlist)
Vesper Stamper

Blood Water Paint
(Longlist)
Joy McCullough

We'll Fly Away
(Longlist)
Bryan Bliss

A Very Large Expanse of Sea
(Longlist)
Tahereh Mafi

2017

Far from the Tree
(Winner)
Robin Benway

American Street
(Finalist)
Ibi Zoboi

What Girls Are Made of
(Finalist)
Elana K. Arnold

Clayton Byrd Goes Underground
(Finalist)
Rita Williams-Garcia

I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter
(Finalist)
Erika L. Sanchez

The Hate U Give
(Longlist)
Angie Thomas

Orphan Island
(Longlist)
Laurel Snyder

You Bring the Distant Near
(Longlist)
Mitali Perkins

All the Wind in the World
(Longlist)
Samantha Mabry

Long Way Down
(Longlist)
Jason Reynolds

2016

Raymie Nightingale
(Finalist)
Kate DiCamillo

Ghost
(Finalist)
Jason Reynolds

When the Sea Turned to Silver
(Finalist)
Grace Lin

The Sun Is Also a Star
(Finalist)
Nicola Yoon

Pax
(Longlist)
Sara Pennypacker

Burn Baby Burn
(Longlist)
Meg Medina

Booked
(Longlist)
Kwame Alexander

When the Moon Was Ours
(Longlist)
Anna-Marie McLemore

2015

Challenger Deep
(Winner)
Neal Shusterman

Bone Gap
(Finalist)
Laura Ruby

Challenger Deep
(Finalist)
Neal Shusterman

Nimona
(Finalist)
Noelle Stevenson

The Thing About Jellyfish
(Finalist)
Ali Benjamin

X
(Longlist)
Ilyasah Shabazz

Bone Gap
(Longlist)
Laura Ruby

Challenger Deep
(Longlist)
Neal Shusterman

Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda
(Longlist)
Becky Albertalli

Nimona
(Longlist)
Noelle Stevenson

The Thing About Jellyfish
(Longlist)
Ali Benjamin

Walk on Earth a Stranger
(Longlist)
Rae Carson

2014

Threatened
(Finalist)
Eliot Schrefer

Noggin
(Finalist)
John Corey Whaley

Revolution
(Finalist)
Deborah Wiles

The Impossible Knife of Memory
(Longlist)
Laurie Halse Anderson

Girls Like Us
(Longlist)
Gail Giles

100 Sideways Miles
(Longlist)
Andrew Smith

Greenglass House
(Longlist)
Kate Milford

Skink -- No Surrender
(Longlist)
Carl Hiaasen

2013

The Thing About Luck
(Winner)
Cynthia Kadohata

Far Far Away
(Finalist)
Tom Mcneal

The True Blue Scouts of Sugar Man Swamp
(Finalist)
Kathi Appelt

Boxers & Saints Boxed Set
(Finalist)
Gene Luen Yang

Picture Me Gone
(Finalist)
Meg Rosoff

A Tangle of Knots
(Longlist)
Lisa Graff

The Summer Prince
(Longlist)
Alaya Dawn Johnson

Flora & Ulysses: The Illuminated Adventures
(Longlist)
Kate DiCamillo

The Real Boy
(Longlist)
Anne Ursu

Two Boys Kissing
(Longlist)
David Levithan

2012

Goblin Secrets
(Winner)
William Alexander

Never Fall Down
(Finalist)
Patricia McCormick

Endangered
(Finalist)
Eliot Schrefer

Out of Reach
(Finalist)
Carrie Arcos

2011

Inside Out and Back Again
(Winner)
Thanhha Lai

Okay for Now
(Finalist)
Gary D. Schmidt

2010

Mockingbird
(Winner)
Kathryn Erskine

Lockdown
(Finalist)
Walter Dean Myers

One Crazy Summer
(Finalist)
Rita Williams-Garcia

Ship Breaker
(Finalist)
Paolo Bacigalupi

Dark Water
(Finalist)
Laura McNeal

2009

Lips Touch: Three Times
(Finalist)
Laini Taylor

2008

What I Saw And How I Lied
(Winner)
Judy Blundell

The Underneath
(Finalist)
Kathi Appelt

Chains
(Finalist)
Laurie Halse Anderson

2007

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

The Invention of Hugo Cabret
(Finalist)
Brian Selznick

Touching Snow
(Finalist)
M. Sindy Felin

2006

The Pox Party
(Winner)
M.T. Anderson

2005

The Penderwicks
(Winner)
Jeanne Birdsall

Inexcusable
(Finalist)
Chris Lynch

Where I Want to Be
(Finalist)
Adele Griffin

2004

Godless
(Winner)
Pete Hautman
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Legend of Buddy Bush
(Finalist)
Shelia P. Moses

2003

The Canning Season
(Winner)
Polly Horvath

Locomotion
(Finalist)
Jacqueline Woodson

Breakout
(Finalist)
Paul Fleischman

2002

House of the Scorpion
(Winner)
Nancy Farmer

Hush
(Finalist)
Jacqueline Woodson

2001

True Believer
(Winner)
Virginia Euwer Wolff

2000

Homeless Bird
(Winner)
Gloria Whelan

The Book of the Lion
(Longlist)
Michael Cadnum

Forgotten Fire
(Longlist)
Adam Bagdasarian

Many Stones
(Longlist)
Carolyn Coman

1999

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

Monster
(Longlist)
Walter Dean Myers

Speak
(Longlist)
Laurie Halse Anderson

1998

Holes
(Winner)
Louis Sachar

A Long Way from Chicago
(Longlist)
Richard Peck

Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key
(Longlist)
Jack Gantos

1997

The Facts Speak for Themselves
(Longlist)
Brock Cole

Sons of Liberty
(Longlist)
Adele Griffin

Mean Margaret
(Longlist)
Tor Seidler

1996

Parrot in the Oven
(Winner)
Victor Martinez

Award Categories

Children's

Children's Book: Fiction (hardcover)

Children's Book: Fiction (paperback)

Fiction

Fiction (Hardcover)

Fiction (Paperback)

First Novel

Mystery (hardcover)

Mystery (paperback)

Original Paperback

Picture Book (Hardcover)

Science Fiction (hardcover)

Science Fiction (paperback)

Young People's Literature

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