Pennsylvania Young Reader's Choice Award - Young Adult

Awards List

2016

The Scar Boys
(Nominee)
Len Vlahos

The Weight of Blood
(Nominee)
Laura McHugh

Noggin
(Nominee)
John Corey Whaley

Pointe
(Nominee)
Brandy Colbert

To All the Boys I've Loved Before
(Nominee)
Jenny Han

We Were Liars
(Nominee)
E. Lockhart

Those Who Wish Me Dead
(Nominee)
Michael Koryta

I'll Give You the Sun
(Nominee)
Jandy Nelson

If You're Reading This
(Nominee)
Trent Reedy

Lies We Tell Ourselves
(Nominee)
Robin Talley

The Young Elites
(Nominee)
Marie Lu

All the Bright Places
(Nominee)
Jennifer Niven

2015

Eleanor & Park
(Winner)
Rainbow Rowell

The Coldest Girl in Coldtown
(Nominee)
Holly Black
in The Eternal Kiss: 13 Vampire Tales of Blood and Desire

Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe
(Nominee)
Benjamin Alire Saenz

Tiger Lily
(Nominee)
Jodi Lynn Anderson

The Madman's Daughter
(Nominee)
Megan Shepherd

Out of The Easy
(Nominee)
Ruta Sepetys

Eleanor & Park
(Nominee)
Rainbow Rowell

If You Find Me
(Nominee)
Emily Murdoch (1)

Rotten
(Nominee)
Michael Northrop

I'm With Stupid
(Nominee)
Geoff Herbach

Reality Boy
(Nominee)
A.S. King

The Living
(Nominee)
Matt De La Pena

The Impossible Knife of Memory
(Nominee)
Laurie Halse Anderson

2014

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

Between
(Nominee)
Jessica Warman

Sophie & Carter
(Nominee)
Chelsea Fine

Ashfall
(Nominee)
Mike Mullin

Wolf Mark
(Nominee)
Joseph Bruchac

Cinder
(Nominee)
Marissa Meyer

The Final Four
(Nominee)
Paul Volponi

Shadow and Bone
(Nominee)
Leigh Bardugo

The Raft
(Nominee)
S.A. Bodeen

Call the Shots
(Nominee)
Don Calame

Every Day
(Nominee)
David Levithan

Personal Effects
(Nominee)
E.M. Kokie

Endangered
(Nominee)
Eliot Schrefer

The Tragedy Paper
(Nominee)
Elizabeth Laban

2013

The Fault in Our Stars
(Winner)
John Green

Room
(Nominee)
Emma Donoghue

Anna and the French Kiss
(Nominee)
Stephanie Perkins

Delirium
(Nominee)
Lauren Oliver

Trapped
(Nominee)
Michael Northrop

Enclave
(Nominee)
Ann Aguirre

The Berlin Boxing Club
(Nominee)
Robert Sharenow

Stupid Fast
(Nominee)
Geoff Herbach

Ghetto Cowboy
(Nominee)
G. Neri

The Watch That Ends the Night
(Nominee)
Allan Wolf

Chopsticks
(Nominee)
Jessica Anthony

2012

Matched
(Winner)
Ally Condie

Flash Burnout
(Nominee)
L.K. Madigan

The Dark Days of Hamburger Halpin
(Nominee)
Josh Berk

The Sky is Everywhere
(Nominee)
Jandy Nelson

Three Rivers Rising
(Nominee)
Jame Richards

Ship Breaker
(Nominee)
Paolo Bacigalupi

The Secret to Lying
(Nominee)
Todd Mitchell

Take Me There
(Nominee)
Carolee Dean

Black Hole Sun
(Nominee)
David MacInnis Gill

Rot & Ruin
(Nominee)
Jonathan Maberry

You
(Nominee)
Charles Benoit

Dash & Lily's Book of Dares
(Nominee)
Rachel Cohn; David Levithan

Virals
(Nominee)
Kathy Reichs; Brendan Reichs

2011

Perfect Chemistry
(Winner)
Simone Elkeles

Thirteen Reasons Why
(Nominee)
Jay Asher

Gotcha!
(Nominee)
Shelley Hrdlitschka

If I Stay
(Nominee)
Gayle Forman

The Chosen One
(Nominee)
Carol Lynch Williams

After
(Nominee)
Amy Efaw

Lipstick Apology
(Nominee)
Jennifer Jabaley

Shiver
(Nominee)
Maggie Stiefvater

Leviathan
(Nominee)
Scott Westerfeld

2010

The Hunger Games
(Winner)
Suzanne Collins

The God of Animals
(Nominee)
Aryn Kyle

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

Deadline
(Nominee)
Chris Crutcher

Unwind
(Nominee)
Neal Shusterman

Sunrise Over Fallujah
(Nominee)
Walter Dean Myers

The Adoration of Jenna Fox
(Nominee)
Mary E. Pearson

Paper Towns
(Nominee)
John Green

2009

Twilight
(Winner)
Stephenie Meyer

Life As We Knew It
(Nominee)
Susan Beth Pfeffer

2008

Dairy Queen
(Winner)
Catherine Gilbert Murdock

Wild Roses
(Nominee)
Deb Caletti

Crackback
(Nominee)
John Coy

Copper Sun
(Nominee)
Sharon M. Draper

2007

My Sister's Keeper
(Winner)
Jodi Picoult

Big Mouth and Ugly Girl
(Nominee)
Joyce Carol Oates

The Truth about Forever
(Nominee)
Sarah Dessen

Code Talker
(Nominee)
Joseph Bruchac

The Sea of Trolls
(Nominee)
Nancy Farmer

2006

The Kite Runner
(Nominee)
Khaled Hosseini

The Silent Boy
(Nominee)
Lois Lowry

Breakout
(Nominee)
Paul Fleischman

Award Categories

Grades 3-5

Grades 3-6

Grades 3-8

Grades 6-8

Grades K-3

Young Adult

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